How to Outwit Aristotle: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- How to know that you exist
- How to awake as a gigantic insect
- How to fire the neurons in your head
- How to be free
- How to outwit Aristotle
- How to know what knowledge is
- How to stop worrying about the evil genius
- How to be a ghost in the machine
- How not to have feelings or beliefs
- How to tell the future
- How to be a philosophical scientist
- How to turn noise into meaning
- How to know what we are talking about
- How to live on slippery slopes
- How to judge whom to save
- How not to eat people
- How not to be harmed by your death
- How to be God
- How to sympathize with the devil
- How to be a monkey endlessly typing
- How to be seduced by logic
- How to be an object of desire
- How not to be nasty, brutish and short
- How to tolerate the intolerable
- How not to be a three-legged frog
- How not to be squeezed by time
- How to outdo artificial intelligence
- How to deceive yourself
- How to love what does not exist
- How not to be left looking after the clothes
- How to hear the Sirens' song in safety
- How to think like a bat
- How to see beauty
- How to know when to stop
- How to bring meaning to life
- Glossary
- Index