Philosophy on Tap: Pint-Sized Puzzles for the Pub Philosopher

A funny thing happened on the way to the monastery Personal Acknowledgments.

Acknowledgments.

1. Transporter Troubles.

2. Zeno’s Hand to Mouth Paradox.

3. If a Pint Spills in the Forest.

4. The Beer Goggles Paradox.

5. Pascal’s Wager.

6. The Experience Machine.

7. Lucretius’ Spear.

8. The Omnipotence Dilemma.

9. What Mary Didn’t Know About Lager.

10. Malcolm X and the Whites Only Bar.

11. Untangling Taste.

12. The Foreknowledge Paradox.

13. The Buddha’s Missing Self.

14. The Blind Men and the Black and Tan.

15. Liar’s Paradox.

16. Paley’s Cask.

17. Chuang Tzu’s Butterfly.

18. Descartes’ Doubt.

19. God’s Command.

20. Mill’s Drunkard.

21. The Myth of Gyges.

22. Laplace’s Superscientist.

23. Gaunilo’s Perfect Ale.

24. The Problem of Moral Truth.

25. How to Sew on a Soul.

26. Plato’s Forms.

27. Realizing Nirvana.

28. The Problem of Evil.

29. Time’s Conundrum.

30. Time Travel Paradoxes.

31. Hitler’s Lager.

32. The Zen Koan.

33. Sex and Sensibility.

34. Socrates’ Virtue.

35. Nature Calls.

36. Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence.

37. The Most Interesting Man and the Firing Line.

38. Turing’s Tasting Machine.

39. Singer’s Pond.

40. The Wisest One of All.

41. Enter the Matrix.

42. A Case of Bad Faith.

43. Cask and Cleaver.

44. Flirting with Disaster.

45. Fear of Zombies.

46. Lao Tzu’s Empty Mug.

47. Beer and the Meaning of Life.

48. The Case for Temperance.

Notes.

Glossary of Beer and Philosophical Terms.