The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms /
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London :
Penguin Books,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Procrustes
- Preludes
- Counter narratives
- Matters ontological
- The sacred and the profane
- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism
- Charming and less charming sucker problems
- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life
- The republic of letters
- The universal and the particular
- Fooled by randomness
- Aesthetics
- Ethics
- Robustness and fragility
- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence
- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge
- The scandal of prediction
- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one
- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects
- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent
- The implicit and the explicit
- On the varieties of love and nonlove
- The end
- Postface.