Heroes and philosophy
Subtitle: buy the book, save the world
By: edited by David Kyle Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, David Kyle.
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470373385
Subjects: Heroes (Television program); Superheroes; Conduct of life
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The wonder of Heroes; title: Heroic obligations; title: Above the social contract? : how superheroes break society / Robert Sharp; title: Heroes, obligations, and the ethics of saving the world / J.K. Miles; title: Corporate capers : the moral dimensions of working for the company / Christopher Robichaud; title: With great creativity comes great imitation : problems of plagiarism and knowledge / Jason Southworth; title: Supermen, Samurai, and invisible men; title: Time and the meaning of life in Heroes and Nietzsche / Tyler Shores; title: Hiro Nakamura, Bushido, and hero-archetypes / Erik Daniel Baldwin; title: Plato on Gyges' Ring of invisibility : the power of heroes and the value of virtue / Don Adams; title: Metaphysics, regular-physics, and heroic time travel; title: The foreknowledge of a painter, the fate of a hero / David Kyle Johnson; title: Time to be a hero : branching time and changing the future / Morgan Luck; title: Heroes and the ethics of time travel : does the present matter? / David Faraci; title: The physics of heroes : immortal samurais, flying men, and destroying the space-time continuum / Andrew Zimmerman Jones; title: Pseudoscience, scientific revolutions, and Dr. Chandra Suresh / David Kyle Johnson and Andrew Zimmerman Jones; title: The minds of heroes; title: Peter Petrelli, the Haitian and the philosophical implications of memory loss / Peter Kirwan; title: Understanding other minds : philosophical foundations of heroes mindreading powers / Fabio Paglieri; title: Peter Petrelli : the power of empathy? / Andrew Terjesen; title: Villains, family and lying; title: Are the heroes really good? / Peter S. Fosl; title: Heroes and family obligations / Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth; title: Concealment and lying : is this any way for a hero to act? / Mike Berry.