A cabinet of philosophical curiosities : a collection of puzzles, oddities, riddles and dilemmas / Roy Sorensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorensen, Roy A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic--Miscellanea.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities is a collection of puzzles, paradoxes, riddles, and miscellaneous logic problems. Depending on taste, one can partake of a puzzle, a poem, a proof, or a pun.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Conform to Confound

Razing Hopes

Hidden Messages in Songs

A Blessed Book Curse

Listen for a Counterexample

Schopenhauer's Intelligence Test

A Knucklehead on My Premises

The Tversky Intelligence Test

A Matter of Life and Death

The Identity of Indiscernibles

Indiscernible Pills

Telling a Clover from a Plover

The Emotional Range of Logicians

A Pebble from the Baths of Caracalla

Assassination Proof

How to Succeed Your Successor

Not All Logicians Are Saints

Lewis Carroll's Peek at Meno's Slave Boy

The Elderly Scientist

More Proof!

Emily Dickinson's Hummingbird

Plato's Packing Problem

Telepathy for the Absent-Minded

Order of Absence versus Absence of Order

Neglect of the Absent

Child Proof

Wittgenstein's Parallelograms

Knowing the Area of a Parallelogram

Freud versus the Dreaming Logicians

Do Butterflies Dream?

Descartes's Disappearance

The Most Fairly Distributed Good

Fairness Framed

Towards a Fairer Share of Dishwashing

What the Dishwasher Missed

Developmental Self-Defeat

Random Quiz

Enforcing Gresham's Law

Gresham's Law of Numbers

Laziest Reductio

Imaginary Travel Companions

The Twin Cities Race

Fugu for Two

Deducing Names

Richard Feynman is Inconsistent

Galbraith's Cow

Logical Names for Babies

Being Relatively Ill-Named

Roman Resemblance Humour

The Prison-House of Language

Bilingual Humour

The Pierre Puzzle and Implicit Racism

Capital Pronunciation

Logically Perfect Language

Eyebrow Punctuation

Kierkegaard's 1 AU Dash

Putting Out Your Second Eye

A Pyramid Schema

The Eighteenth Camel

The Negation Test for Nonsense

Shifty O's

A Plenum of Palindromes for Lewis Carroll.

Pining for the Impossible

Anything Is Possible?

Half Full or Half Empty?

The Scientific Drinker

Is Akrasia Crazy?

A Cure for Incontinence!

Lewis Carroll's Pig Puzzles

A Round Trip from Small to Large

Partway Down the Slippery Slope

Contrapositive Thinking

Queer Quantities

New Zealand's Arthur Prior

Most Remote Capital City

The Logic of 'Australia'

Predicting Your Predictor

The Freedom of a Coin Toss

Fair Tosses from an Unfair Coin

Predicting Random Choices

Wittgenstein on Ice

The Unbearable Lightness of Logical Conclusions

Impossible Crimes

Double Belief

The Evil of Doing the Impossible

Identity Theft

Infinite Chess

Infinite Two-Minute Debate

Indian Debate Tournament

Winning by Losing

Minimising Selfishness

Lawrence of Arabia Collars a Leopard

A Bridge without Pillars

Advice from Shih Teng

Thales' Shady Measurement of Pyramids

The Cowpox Transmission Problem

Kant's Gloves

An Antipodal Algorithm

The Invisibility of Function Words

Necessary Waste

The Art of the Counterexample

The Philosophy of Scale Effects

Humble Exercise

Philosophy for the Eye

Synthetic A Priori Lies

Passive A Priori Deception

Crete Revisited

Less Lucky the Second Time?

Professor Ignorance

Nothing Is Written in Stone

Self-Fulfilling, Self-Defeating Prophecies

The Philosopher's Petition

Napoleon's Meta-Discovery

Handicaps on Deduction

Logical Insults

Logical Humility

Blasphemous Tautologies

Generality Jokes and Consistency Proofs

To Be and Not to Be

Lobster Logic

The Triple Contract

Voltaire's Big Bet

Biblical Counting

Russell's Slip of the Pen

The First Female Philosopher?

Is a Burrito a Sandwich?

Second Place

The Drachma's Defect

Illogical Coin Collecting

The Centime and the Bottle Imp.

A Meeting of Minds

Deadliest Gettier Case

Premature Explanatory Satiation

Upside-Down Charity

Does Charity Apply to Group Beliefs?

The Population of Lake Wobegon

Following the Argument

The Earliest Unexpected Class Inspection

A Foolproof Guessing Game

Predicting Your Death Date

The Oldest Mosque

The Referee's Dilemma

The Worst Pair of Referee Reports

A Terrible Tautology?

Quantifier Mottos

The Chinese Music Box

Christmas Eve364

Putting Parody into Practice

Hoax Proof

Penny Wise

Plato's Punning Riddle

Chess Puzzle Puzzle

The Spy's Riddle

Why One is the Loneliest Number

The Moment of Truth

Preventing Prevarication

Argument and Oscar Wilde's 'The Decay of Lying'

Ethics of Supposition

Behaviourism for Eggs

The Egg Came Before the Chicken

The Egg Came Before the Ellipse

Martin Gardner's Touching Problem

Indiscernible Harm

Book Review of A Million Random Digits

An Unjust but Fair Obituary

Reflective Truth Tables

The Bikini Palindrome

Family Resemblance for Primates

Minimal Resemblance

Brother-in-Law Resemblance

Tolstoy's Syllogism

Woody Allen's Death Wish

Checkmate in Aleph-Nought

A Memory Lapse

The Penultimate State

Fame as the Forgotten Philosopher: Meditations on the Headstone of Adam Ferguson

The Answers

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-982957-8