Listed in order of appearance.
Chapter 1
Section 1
- 1 Galileo’s two cannon balls 7
- 2 Ship at rest or moving? 8
- 3 A light signal emitter on a train 8
- 4 Two rockets conjoined by a thread 9
- 5 The non-rotating car and its garage 10
- 6 The clock-in-the box of Bohr and Einstein 12
- 7 The epr 15
- 8 Darwin’s wolves 20
- 9 Jenkins’ rare burrowing hare 22
- 10 Roughgarden’s dandelion competition 24
Section 2
- 11Brown’s Picture Proof of 1 + 2 + 3 + … + n = n2/2 + n/2 25
- 12Counterfactual Jesus 26
- 13Foot’s Sc-Rioters vs. Sc-Tram 27
- 14Shoemaker’s Brains Mix-up 29
- 15Ship of Theseus 29
- 16Parfits’ amoeba thought experiment 30
- 17Jackson’s Mary the color scientist 33
- 18Dennett’s Mary i 34
- 19Dennett’s Mary ii 34
Section 3
- 20Swinburne’s amoeba thought experiment 37
- 21Swinburne’s mad surgeon 37
- 22Wisdom’s gardener 40
- 23Flew’s gardener 41
- 24Mitchell’s resistance fighter 43
- 25Hick’s travelers 44
- 26Gosse’s navel of Adam 47
- 27Dennett’s superman 49
- 28
Dennett’s murder of an artist 50 - 29Putnam’s Seducer 52
Chapter 2
Section 4
- 30Adam’s prelapsarian Knowledge 84
Chapter 3
Section 3
- 31The mechanical models of the luminiferous æther 116
Section 4
- 32Augustine on prelapsarian sex 125
Chapter 4
Section 2
- 33The Book of Job 174
Conclusion
- 34The Bees on the Synagogue windows 222
- 35Putnam on elusive Logical Facts 223