Insurmountable Simplicities: Thirty-nine Philosophical Conundrums

Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi

Paper, 144 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13723-2
$17.95 / £10.95

June, 2006
Cloth, 144 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13722-5
$26.95 / £16.95

Table of Contents

Room 88

About a Useless Project

The Poet as a Young Man

The Chain of Events Leading Up to the Goal

Zombie, Inc. Sleeping Pills

Partial Amnesia

Person Transplant

My Ice Cream, Your Ice Cream

Playing Lotto in Reverse City

Lucky Numbers

The Invisible Disorder

A Missive from the Bell-Ringer

Sparkling Bubbles

Dates of Birth

Four-Seasons Island

Lost Beauty Spots

Hic Sunt Leones

Reflections

The Last Case of the President of Amoebas

The Hidden Statue

A Cupboard in Pieces

Holter Monitor

Row 13

Train Cancelled

Satellites

Verbatim

The Intelligent Dictionary

The Traveler’s Pictionary

Ink Marks

Forced Choices

What Does the Majority Want?

Law Number One

Proud To Be Third

The Placebo Effect

Interesting!

Self-Reference Self-Explained

The Surprise Visit

A Risky Cake

Coda

Universal Acid

Note

Related Subjects

• Analytic Philosophy
• Philosophy

About the Author

Roberto Casati is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris. He is the author of The Shadow Club and (with Achille Varzi) Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation and Holes and Other Superficialities. Achille Varzi is professor of philosophy at Columbia University. In addition to the books coauthored with Casati, he is the author of several volumes, including An Essay in Universal Semantics and Theory and Problems of Logic.

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