ABSTRACT
I should like to thank the fictive Professor Highly Dull for his invaluable comments on the last paragraph of Problem 30, and my dog, Blackie, for patiently typing the whole manuscript four times. Any mistakes are Professor Dull’s, and not mine. Or possibly Blackie’s. And then there’s Mrs Martin Cohen, for making the tea as well as for never losing faith that there really were only 101 problems. Try to make it a bit more personal – Editor. Thanks also to Lil’ Sis, Big Sis, an’ Middle Sis. And Ma, yes, an’
Pa too. And thanks to ‘Moggy’ Mike Morris, ‘Chocolates’ Terry Diffey and, most importantly, ‘Gorgeous George’ MacDonald Ross, collectively the philosophers, like, of cool. And thanks to Tony Bruce, Adam Johnson and Ruth Berry at our esteemed publishing house, and those crazy refs wot looked at my book while it was just a baby. Tony has guided all four editions of 101 Philosophy Problems from the shadow world of the concepts to the world we live in, so he has really had a big influence on these books. Hey, I don’t forget my arty friends from Molehill UK and the
F.A.T.S. monitoring unit, who dun the pictures for those early editions and found the facts. They dun it real good, too. Nor ‘Ma Jon’ Coupland and his computer-toting gang who created an allimportant virtual reality for me to finish things off in. An’ I don’t forget Lil’ Lisa, professor of Chinese Confusion Philosophy, who
with a very interesting personal problem, the others, I guess I ain’t solved yet. The third and fourth editions include a stunning new series of
philosophical illustrations, for which I would like to thank very formally, Judit, leading, er … ‘light’ of the Cetobjet art movement in France, and No. 1 fan of 101 Philosophy. Hey, there’s loadsa other folks too – but I don’t guess I can do
everyone here. But they ain’t forgot.
