ABSTRACT

Now in its second edition, this ever-engaging, humorous and extremely popular book challenges readers to think philosophically about every day dilemmas. This fully updated new edition includes brand new problems, such as 'A Nasty Transplant' and the 'Three Embryos', from the field of medical ethics, and 'Deep Thought Speaks', which tackles issues in Artificial Intelligence.
These new conundrums accompany old favourites, such as the 'Hanging Judge', 'The Unexpected exam', 'The Sentence' paradox and 'Descartes' big problem', all explained and explored in Martin Cohen's clear, witty and individual style. 101 Philosophy Problems will stimulate hours of lively philosophical debate.

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The hanging judge

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The cow in the field

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Protagoras’ problem

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The hairdresser of Hindu Kush

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The raven

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The tuck-shop dilemma

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The unexpected exam

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Sorites

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The sentence

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ethical stories

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Diktatia

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Diktatia II

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A relative problem

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The dog and the professor

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The dog and the professor II

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Problems in the Lost Kingdom of Marjon

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New Diktatia

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New Diktatia II

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New Diktatia III

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The bent coin problem

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Life on Sirius

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The infinite hotel

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Zeno’s paradoxes

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Achilles and the tortoise

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Lost in Space

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Dancing in the stadium

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That’s enough paradoxes (ed.)

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Some value judgements

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Fakes and forgeries

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The value of stamps and potatoes

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The value of stamps and potatoes II

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The value of stamps and potatoes III

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Gyges’ ring

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Paradoxical picture puzzles

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The cube and the triangle

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Figure/ground reversal

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The false leg

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The chair

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Band with a twist in it

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The blobs

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The colour disk illusion

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Problems with time

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The time machine

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The time-stopper

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The microworld time forgot

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The unreliable watches

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Personal problems

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The book

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The book II

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Sleeping problems

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Indispositional problems

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Still indisposed

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The sleeping man

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A problem arranging ship battles

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Deep Thought speaks for itself

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Deeper thought

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Paradoxical pictures

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Daytime—or night-time?

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But will the waterfall?

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The architect’s secret

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The three hares illusion

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Some nasty medical problems

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The three embryos problem

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Kidnapped by doctors!

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Kidnapped by doctors! Episode II

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Potentially a problem

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Whose baby?

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A sinister transplant problem

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More sinister transplant problems

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Chinese problems

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The turtle

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The nightingale’s song

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religious problems

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The Evangelist

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Problems with the speed of light

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Further problems of natural philosophy

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Schrödinger’s cat’s problem

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The space yacht’s black hole

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Pretty final problems

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Schopenhauer’s problem

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Schopenhauer’s problem too

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Descartes’ big problem

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The problem of existence