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Acknowledgments
Preface
1 The Wisdom That Failed
We Will Teach You How to Think, They Said
Russell’s Paradox: A Genius with a Streak of Foolishness
Communist Temptations at Oxford
Bad Arguments and Bad Politics: What Causes What?
2 Otto Neurath: A Philosopher and the Commissars
3 How Philosophers of Science Promoted Leftist Pseudoscience
Tinker, Tailor, Philosopher . . . Spy
4 Rudolf Carnap: Blaming the West for the Iron Curtain
Henry Wallace, Clueless in Kolyma (and Elsewhere)
Against the Imaginary Gulag—but Not the Real One
The Rosenberg Case: Will the Real Rudolf Carnap Please Stand Up?
5 Einstein and Gödel: Great Minds Err Alike
A Soft Spot for Lenin . . .
. . . and for Stalin Too
Recruitment by Remote Control
The Nazification of America?
6 Ludwig Wittgenstein: To Russia with Love
Language Games at the Soviet Embassy
The Attractions of Stalinism
Philosophical Genius Opposes the War Against Hitler
7 Imre Lakatos: Eulogized in England, Unforgiven in Hungary
LSE: Economical with the Truth?
Murder by Suicide
Sticking with the Superego
8 Jerry Cohen: Don’t Celebrate the Collapse of Soviet Communism!
A “Fascist Rebellion” in Hungary in 1956
The Price of Dreaming about Socialism
9 Michael Dummett: A Bumbling Anti-Racist
Paid by Oxford to Do Research, Does Politics Instead
A Logician’s Strange Route to Empirical Truth
A Pimp, Criminal, and Racist Invited to Talk at All Souls College
A Sham Engagement with Philosophy
10 Hilary Putnam: A Follower of Chairman Mao
A Lover of Wisdom Joins a Cult
Inside the Chinese Utopia
11 Donald Davidson: A Dupe of the Communist Party
An Unjust War Yesterday, a Just War Today
Imagine There’s No Grades . . .
Princeton Philosophers and Czech Dissidents Unimpressed with Angela Davis
12 The American Philosophical Association: A Vehicle for Partisan Politics
Philosophers Advise: Withdraw from Vietnam with the Maximum Physical Speed!
The APA Decrees on Abortion, IQ, Nuclear Weapons, Death Penalty, Iraq War . . .
How Yugoslav Marxists Pulled a Fast One on the APA (and Other Philosophers)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Politics of Citation
13 Left-Wing Bias: An Infantile Disorder of Contemporary Philosophy
Robert Nozick Loses His Nerve
Those Dumb Conservatives
The Curious Case of Gottlob Frege
Nixon or Cleaver, That Is the Question
And Then He Started to Cry . . .
Are All Rich People Thieves?
“Let the Massacre Begin!” Said the Ethicist
Excellently Wise and Excellently Foolish
14 Conclusion
References
Index
