What’s Wrong With Eating People? 33 More Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles

Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1. On thinking too much: how not to win a princess’s hand......Page 20
2. On the run: all’s fair with bears?......Page 27
3. A pill for everything?......Page 34
4. In no time at all......Page 41
5. Man with pulley: waving or drowning?......Page 48
6. ‘Hi, I’m Sir Isaac Newton – don’t mention the apples’......Page 55
7. Should we save the jerboa?......Page 61
8. When one makes two: dressing up......Page 68
9. The life model: beauty, burglars, and beholders......Page 74
10. An offer you can only refuse......Page 81
11. Slothful Sloth speaks: ‘What will be, will be’......Page 86
12. ‘Women and men are equal’ – really?......Page 92
13. Humpty Dumpty advises Ms Turkey......Page 101
14. Man or sheep?......Page 108
15. … and the living is easy......Page 114
16. ‘My beloved is mine’ or ‘The trouble with football isthe other team’......Page 121
17. God, chocolate, and Newcomb: take the box?......Page 128
18. The brain......Page 135
19. What’s wrong with eating people? or evenWho’s for dinner?......Page 142
20. How to gain whatever you want......Page 149
21. ‘I am the greatest’ or ‘There ain’t no Sanity Claus’......Page 154
22. Veils of woe: beats and peeping Toms too......Page 162
23. Paintings, within and without......Page 169
24. The unobtainable: when ‘yes’ means ‘no’......Page 176
25. Past caring?......Page 181
26. Beauty awake......Page 187
27. The greatest miracle?......Page 195
28. Cocktails, rivers, and Sir John Cutler’s stockings......Page 202
29. Hove and late: a gruesome affair......Page 207
30. If this be judging …......Page 213
31. Do we make the stars?......Page 220
32. Without end?......Page 227
33. Fragile creatures that we are …......Page 233
Appendix 1 Further reading......Page 240
Appendix 2 Notes, sources, and references......Page 242
Appendix 3 Paradoxes and puzzles: a quick finder......Page 261
General Index......Page 264