Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to House
by Editor: William Irwin (King?s College, USA); Editor: David Kyle Johnson (King?s College, USA)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2010-07-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God? Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophers With examples from film, television, and music including South Park, The Matrix , X-Men, Batman, Harry Potter, Metallica and Lost, even the most abstract and complex philosophical ideas become easier to grasp Features key essays from across the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, as well as helpful editorial material and a glossary of philosophical terms From metaphysics to epistemology; from ethics to the meaning of life, this unique introduction makes philosophy as engaging as popular culture itself
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| How to Use this Book in a Philosophy Course | |
| What is Philosophy? | |
| Section Introduction | |
| Socrates and the Spirit of Philosophy | |
| Flatulence and Philosophy: A Lot of Hot Air, or the Corruption of the Youth? | |
| Logic and Fallacies | |
| The Chewbacca Defense: A South Park Logic Lesson | |
| Relativism and Truth | |
| Wikiality, Truthiness, and Gut Thinking: Doing Philosophy Colbert-Style | |
| Epistemology | |
| Section Introduction | |
| The Ethics of Belief | |
| You Know, I learned Something Today: Stan Marsh and the Ethics of Belief | |
| Skepticism | |
| Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Knowledge, Reality, and the Pit of Skepticism | |
| The Definition of Knowledge, the Gettier Problem, and the Ethics of Belief | |
| Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge | |
| Metaphysics | |
| Section Introduction | |
| Philosophy of Mind | |
| Mind and Body in Zion | |
| Personal Identity | |
| The Many Lives of Wolverine: Memory and Personal Identity | |
| Freedom and Determinism | |
| Destiny in the Wizarding World | |
| Artificial Intelligence, The Turing Test, and the Chinese Room | |
| The Terminator Wins: Is the Extinction of the Human Race the End of People, or Just the Beginning? | |
| Philosophy of Religion | |
| Section Introduction | |
| The Problem of Evil | |
| Cartmanland and the Problem of Evil | |
| Faith Seeking Understanding | |
| Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason | |
| Arguments for the Existence of God | |
| "I Am an Instrument of God": Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning | |
| Ethics | |
| Section Introduction | |
| Why Be Moral? | |
| Plato on Gyges' Ring of Invisibility: The Power of Heroes and the Value of Virtue | |
| Virtue Ethics | |
| The Virtues of Humor: What The Office Can Teach Us About Aristotle's Ethics | |
| Utilitarianism and Deontology | |
| Why Doesn't Batman Kill the Joker? | |
| Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes | |
| Challenges to Traditional Ethics | |
| Section Introduction | |
| Nietzschean and Marxist Critique | |
| Metallica, Nietzsche, and Marx: The Immorality of Morality | |
| When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising | |
| Existentialist Ethics | |
| Being-in- The Office : Sartre, the Look, and the Viewer | |
| Batman's Confrontation with Death, Angst, and Freedom | |
| Feminist Critique | |
| "You care for everybody": Cameron's Ethics of Care | |
| Vampire Love: The Second Sex Negotiates the 21st Century | |
| Postmodern Critique | |
| Killing the Griffins: A Murderous Exposition of Postmodernism | |
| Social and Political Philosophy | |
| Section Introduction | |
| Social Contract Theory | |
| Lost' s State of Nature | |
| Marxism | |
| Laughter between Distraction and Awakening: Marxist Themes in The Office | |
| Torture | |
| The Ethics of Torture in 24 : Shockingly Banal | |
| Race | |
| Mutants and the Metaphysics of Race | |
| Eastern Views | |
| Section Introduction | |
| Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance | |
| The Sound of One House Clapping: The Unmannerly Doctor as Zen Rhetorician | |
| The Tao of the Bat | |
| The Meaning of Life | |
| Section Introduction | |
| The Theistic View | |
| Beyond Godric's Hollow: Life after Death and the Search for Meaning | |
| The Socratic View | |
| Selfish, Base Animals Crawling Across the Earth: House and the Meaning of Life | |
| Glossary | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Sources | |
| Index | |
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