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How to Outwit Aristotle: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy

Authors:

Peter Cave (author) and Crush Creative (covers)

Language:

English

Original language:

English

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Category:

Philosophy

Publication year:

2012

Original publication year:

2011

ISBN:

978-0-85738-832-2

Pages:

378

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Table of Contents:

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• Introduction

1. How to know that you exist
2. How to awake as a gigantic insect
3. How to fire the neurons in your head
4. How to be free
5. How to outwit Aristotle
6. How to know what knowledge is
7. How to stop worrying about the evil genius
8. How to be a ghost in the machine
9. How not to have feelings or beliefs
10. How to tell the future
11. How to be a philosophical scientist
12. How to turn noise into meaning
13. How to know what we are talking about
14. How to live on slippery slopes
15. How to judge whom to save
16. How not to eat people
17. How not to be harmed by your death
18. How to be God
19. How to sympathize with the devil
20. How to be a monkey endlessly typing
21. How to be seduced by logic
22. How to be an object of desire
23. How not to be nasty, brutish and short
24. How to tolerate the intolerable
25. How not to be a three-legged frog
26. How not to be squeezed by time
27. How to outdo artificial intelligence
28. How to deceive yourself
29. How to love what does not exist
30. How not to be left looking after the clothes
31. How to hear the Sirens' song in safety
32. How to think like a bat
33. How to see beauty
34. How to know when to stop
35. How to bring meaning to life

• Glossary
• Index

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