REVIEWS 157 color. Weirob responds that, even if experience properties are non-physical, it does not follow that they can’t be studied systematically and sciemtifically, just ay mathematicians study and develop theories about mathematical facts and properties. Ifa science of experience properties were developed, it would follow that one could know what it was like to experience color eratoothache, for example, without having ever experienced color or a toothache. ‘Thus, Miiller’s argument shows that experiences are neither physical nor nonphaysical, which means that the argument is flawed, Weirob concludes that the problem is really about the nature of knowledge and of facts and that the most that ean be said is that Miller and Cohen have not succeeded in defending property dualism. The week of dialogues ends with the three friends looking forward to meeting again soon to tackle other fascinating philosophical problems, As mentioned at the beginning of this review, Dialogue on Consciousness: ‘Minds, Brains, and Zombies succeeds in covering a considerable amount of hilosophical territory ina very short number of pages and this speaks tohow well structured the dialogues are. The writing is clear and free of unnecessary Philosophical jargon, When Weirob, the philosophy professor in the dialogue, rnceds to introduce terms of art, she explains them very clearly for her inter locutors to understand, The author does a very good job of representing the ‘many points of view on the topic of the dialogues and of treating each point of view with respect, even when arguing against it. The level of the discus- sion and the limited number of theories covered would not make this book suitable for upper-division or advanced philosophy of mind/consciousness courses. However, I would not hesitate to highly recommend this text for introductory philosophy courses that address the mind/body problem. The ‘material is clearly presented and the dislogue form serves as an excellent tool for encouraging classroom discussion on the topic, providing guidance for how such discussion should be conducted. The book not only presents the Philosophical material clearly and concisely bat also provides a good model Of philosophical debate for students to emulate, Marina Paola Banchett-Robino, Department of Philosophy. 777 Glades Road, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raion FL. 33431; hanchew@axedu A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas Roy Sorensen New York: Oxford University Press, 2016; hardeover, xiv + 289 pp, $24.95; ISBN 978.0-19.98295 -9 TIMOTHY CHAMBERS Robert Nozick once wrote that, “The word philosophy means the love of wisdom, but what philosophers really love is reasoning.” In a similar spirit, © Teaching Phitowopt. 2019. Al igh cere 148.5788 pp 157-180) DOI: 10:55teachphit2019422108REVIEWS 158 Bertrant Russell once counselled that a would-be philosopher oughtto “stock the mind with as many [puzzles] as possible, since these serve much the same purpose [in philosophy] as is served by experiments in physical science” Roy Sorensent—well-kniown for his lifelong study of paradoxes—offers a book in which budding philosophers (in Nozick’s sense of the word) canencounter a cabinet containing the kind of puzzle-stock Russell had in mind. Here’s an example (44-48): A couple (Red and Black) seeks a means of allocating dishwashing duty each evening. A nightly coin-flip, at first, seems fair. But it has a drawback: there's always a chance that one party will be stuck with dish-duty five nights ina row; this would breed resentment on the part of the unlucky dishwasher. So how about this? Draw eight cards from astancard deck (4red, 4 black). Shuffle the cards each night and draw one at random (without replacement). Now there's no chance of resentment: at worst, an unlucky party will only need to suffer four straight nights in a row, at which point dish-duty will revert to the other party. Not bad, but now there's another drawback: After the seventh night, there’s only one card left. I wouldn’t take an astonishing feat of memory t0 realize whether the remaining card will single out Red or Black. This raises the specter of free riding: If Red knows that Black will have dish-duty the next night, then Red can dirty his dishes as much as he likes, secure in the knowledge that the dishes aren't his to wash that night! Hence the puzzle: How might one allocate dish-duty in a manner which rules out the chance of resentment, on the one hand, and the possibility of five riding, on the other? Sorensen’s delightful book is packed with puzzies like this. Some, like the dish-duty puzzle, invite applying philosophical analysis to workaday sit ations. Others involve more traditional “philosophical” matters, such as the identity of indiscernibles (16), backwards induction (200), Gettier examples (191-95), dream skepticism (37-41), free will (107-11), and the infinite (116-17). In addition to philosophical topics, students grappling, with this book will, on occasion, need to be introduced to some of the logical tools philosophers have honed to study paradoxes, including existence as “second ‘order" predicate, modal logic (of the $5 variety) and a Cantorian understand- ing of infinite sets. Forthis reason, Sorensen’s book provides an inviting four horizon of philosophical topics for new undergraduate philosophy majors. ‘This book can also be of servive to graduate students, since parts of the book are repeated (or streamitined) from some of Sorensen’s briefer articles in professional joumals. For instance, Sorensen’s “The Egg Came Before the Chicken” (223-24) originally appeared in Mind in 1992. A quick litera ture search shows that Sorensen’s remarks are part of a modest cluster of articles treating the classic chicken-anc-egg. query. In my experience, such ‘a modest set of articles, focused upon a specific question, makes for easy research-topics for term-papers (and even publications). (In a similar spirit,REVIEWS 150 Sorensen’s first treatment of the Dish Duty puzzle appeared in the UK Jn. dependent in 1999.) ‘Sorensen’s book thus hasan obvious teaching role: Potential philosophy majors (or first-year graduate students) could work on this book in parallel with a required text for symbolic logic. (1 know I would have enjoyed such a supplementary text, in parallel with—and in the spirit of Henle, Garfield and Tymoczko’s text, Sweet Reason.) And Sorensen’s treatment of topics, it’s worth adding, carries his characteristic verve and wit, Now then, to retum to the puzzle which headed this essay: Sorensen of- fers a third dish-duty allocation strategy: “Use two decks of cards, His and Hers, She secretly chooses a subset of the deck that has the same number of red and black cards. [He does] the same with [his] deck. We then pool these two subsetsand shufile,.., Now neither [person] can predict when the deck will run out” (262). True enough, this proposal eliminates free riding, And yet, since there's no upper bound on the number of cards in the resulting duty deck, it’s pos- sible that a person could end up doing dishes five nights in a row. And the possibility of resentment rears its head once aga in, ible that we're stuck in an unsolvable dilemma? Fo () A coin ins would say) has no “memory” of past flips—and thus could possibly (albeit improbably) yield a resentment-inducing sireak of heads (or tails). But (2) A deck from which cards are dealt (without replacement) has a “memory,” thus limiting streaks; and yet, the participants have memories, too—and this gives rise to possible five riders, Is there a path between the horns of this dilemma? I leave this question as an exervise for the fortunate reader of Sorensen’s tantalizing and edifying book. Timothy Chambers, 126 Lawler Read, West Harford CT 6117; teddycham97@ synail.com Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethies, 4th edition Scott B. Rae Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2018; hardcover, 522 pages, $39.99 (USD), $49.99 (CAD) 978-0-310-53642-0 BRYAN ELLROD 1g an introduction to ethies poses distinctive challenges for an author. Id includes a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approach- and touches upon nearly every aspect of human life. Should introduct then, prioritize a more encyclopedic survey approach or should they give pride of place to the theory and methodology of the particular author? Where will selections from seminal texts or the consideration of casuistical issues figure in the economy of pages? Scott B. Rae’s Moral Choices: An Introduction © Teaching Pilosophy. 2019. All rights reserved, 01455788 pp. 159-163 DOI: 10.5810teschphil9010422104,