Preliminaries -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Philosophy and mystification -- 1 Understanding nonsense -- 2 Following and formalization -- 3 Infinity -- 4 Miracles -- 5 How to tell your friends from machines -- 6 Nature and necessity -- 7 Skepticism about skepticism -- 8 Fool's intelligence -- 9 Language and the society of others -- 10 Deus sive natura science nature and ideology -- 11 On misunderstanding science -- 12 History and human nature -- 13 Newton Euclid and the foundation of geometry -- 14 Coda philosophy and history -- Notes -- Index.