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Part 1 Choice and utility: coercion; Newcomb's problem and two principles of choice; reflections on Newcomb's problem; interpersonal utility theory; on Austrian methodology. Part 2 Philosophy and methodology: Socratic puzzles; experience, theory and language; simplicity as fall-out; invisible-hand explanations. Part 3 Ethics and politics: moral complications and moral structures; on the Randian argument; weighted voting and one-man, one-vote. Part 4 Discussions and reviews: Goodman, Nelson, on merit, aesthetic; who would choose socialism?; why do intellectuals oppose capitalism?; the characteristic features of extremism; war, terrorism, reprisals - drawing some moral lines; do animals have rights?. Part 5 Philosophical fictions: fiction; RSVP - a story; testament; teleology.