This volume contains monologues and dialogues in which the most basic questions of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and logic are given clear and cogent answers.
Table of Contents:
30 Laws of Logic
Different Kinds of Mathematical Functions: A Dialogue
Functions, Bijections, and Mapping-relations
What is Logic?
Outline of a Theory of Knowledge
Determinism, Indeterminism, and Personal Freedom
A Dialogue
Neurosis vs. Psychosis
What determines whether one is happy?
Compulsive Work
Stuttering
How men and women are different
One learns from adversity, not from failure
Does everybody want money?
The #1 Rule of Writing
Lack of Coordination
Mental Illness: The Ultimate Litmus Test
The #1 Rule of Business
Honesty and Integrity
A Dialogue
Anger
A Dialogue
What is Bullshit?
A Short Treatise on Causality
Part 1: Causality and Continuity
Part 2 : Causation and Explanation
Part 3: Causation and Counterfactual Truth
Part 4: Program-causation
Part 5: The four different kinds of causes involved in the development of mental illness
Part 6: Singular Causation
Obsessions and Compulsions
A Dialogue concerning OCD
Writing Animated Dialogues as Self-Analysis:
A Dialogue
Neurotic Anxiety as Rational Fear:
A Dialogue
Agency
Analyticity
Anomalous Monism
Bullshit
Two Kinds of Insanity
Ignorance of the Future
Justice
Proof that Time-Travel is Impossible
Rationality vs. Intelligence: A Dialogue