| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction: What Is an Intuition Pump? | p. 1 |
| A Dozen General Thinking Tools | p. 17 |
| Making Mistakes | p. 19 |
| "By Parody of Reasoning": Using Reductio ad Absurdum | p. 29 |
| Rapoport's Rules | p. 33 |
| Occam's Razor | p. 38 |
| Using Lay Audiences as Decoys | p. 42 |
| Jootsing | p. 45 |
| What Is a Deepity? | p. 56 |
| Summary | p. 58 |
| Manifest Image and Scientific Image | p. 69 |
| Sturgeon's Law | p. 36 |
| Tools for Thinking About Meaning or Content | p. 59 |
| Occam's Broom | p. 40 |
| An Older Brother Living in Cleveland | p. 65 |
| Three Species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould Two-Step | p. 48 |
| Rhetorical Questions | p. 55 |
| Murder in Trafalgar Square | p. 61 |
| The "Surely" Operator: A Mental Block | p. 53 |
| "Daddy Is a Doctor" | p. 68 |
| Folk Psychology | p. 73 |
| The Intentional Stance | p. 77 |
| The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction | p. 86 |
| A Cascade of Homunculi | p. 91 |
| Wonder Tissue | p. 98 |
| Trapped in the Robot Control Room | p. 102 |
| An Interlude About Computers | p. 107 |
| The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed | p. 109 |
| Virtual Machines | p. 133 |
| Algorithms | p. 140 |
| Summary | p. 148 |
| More Tools About Meaning | p. 151 |
| A Thing about Redheads | p. 153 |
| The Wandering Two-Bitser, Twin Earth, and the Giant Robot | p. 157 |
| Radical Translation and a Quinian Crossword Puzzle | p. 175 |
| Semantic Engines and Syntactic Engines | p. 178 |
| Swampman Meets a Cow-Shark | p. 180 |
| Two Black Boxes | p. 184 |
| Tools for Thinking About Evolution | p. 201 |
| The Library of Mendel: Vast and Vanishing | p. 205 |
| Genes as Words or as Subroutines | p. 214 |
| The Tree of Life | p. 217 |
| Cranes and Skyhooks, Lifting in Design Space | p. 218 |
| Competence without Comprehension | p. 232 |
| Free-Floating Rationales | p. 234 |
| Do Locusts Understand Prime Numbers? | p. 236 |
| How to Explain Stotting | p. 238 |
| Beware of the Prime Mammal | p. 240 |
| Widowmakers, Mitochondrial Eve, and Retrospective Coronations | p. 247 |
| Cycles | p. 252 |
| What Does the Frog's Eye Tell the Frog's Brain? | p. 256 |
| Leaping through Space in the Library of Babel | p. 258 |
| Who Is the Author of Spamlet? | p. 260 |
| Noise in the Virtual Hotel | p. 267 |
| Herb, Alice, and Hal, the Baby | p. 271 |
| Memes | p. 274 |
| Summary | p. 277 |
| Tools for Thinking about Consciousness | p. 279 |
| Two Counter-images | p. 281 |
| The Zombie Hunch | p. 283 |
| Zombies and Zimboes | p. 288 |
| The Curse of the Cauliflower | p. 296 |
| Vim: How Much Is That in "Real Money"? | p. 299 |
| The Sad Case of Mr. Clapgras | p. 302 |
| The Tuned Deck | p. 310 |
| The Chinese Room | p. 319 |
| The Sorta Operator | p. 96 |
| Automating the Elevator | p. 143 |
| When Does Speciation Occur? | p. 244 |
| Summary | p. 197 |
| Universal Acid | p. 203 |
| The Teleclone Fall from Mars to Earth | p. 330 |
| The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity | p. 333 |
| Heterophenomenology | p. 341 |
| Mary the Color Scientist: A Boom Crutch Unveiled | p. 347 |
| Summary | p. 352 |
| Tools for Thinking About Free Will | p. 355 |
| A Truly Nefarious Neurosurgeon | p. 357 |
| A Deterministic Toy: Conway's Game of Life | p. 359 |
| Rock, Paper, and Scissors | p. 370 |
| Two Lotteries | p. 375 |
| Inert Historical Facts | p. 378 |
| A Computer Chess Marathon | p. 384 |
| Ultimate Responsibility | p. 393 |
| Sphexishness | p. 397 |
| The Boys from Brazil: Another Boom Crutch | p. 401 |
| Summary | p. 406 |
| What is it Like to be a Philosopher? | p. 409 |
| A Faustian Bargain | p. 411 |
| Higher-Order Truths of Chmess | p. 418 |
| What Got Left Out | p. 431 |
| Index | p. 463 |
| Appendix: Solutions to Register Machine Problems | p. 433 |
| Philosophy as Naïve Auto-anthropology | p. 414 |
| Credits | p. 461 |
| The 10 Percent That's Good | p. 425 |
| Bibliography | p. 451 |
| Use the Tools Try Harder | p. 429 |
| Sources | p. 445 |