The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes
By: edited by David Baggett and Philip Tallon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780813136714; 9780813136875; 9780813140568
Subjects: Philosophy in literature; Sherlock Holmes; Characters; Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character); English Detective and mystery stories; Private investigators in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / David Baggett and Philip Tallon; title: Sherlock Holmes as Epistemologist / David Baggett; title: Not the Crime, but the Man: Sherlock Holmes and Charles Augustus Milverton / David Rozema; title: A Case of Insincerity: What Does it Mean to Deceive Someone? / Kevin Kinghorn; title: Sherlock's Reasoning Toolbox / Massimo Pigliucci; title: Watsons, Adlers, Lestrades, and Moriarties: on the Nature of Friends and Enemies / Philip Tallon; title: Eliminating the impossible: Sherlock Holmes and the supernatural / Kyle Blanchette; title: Was it morally wrong to kill off Sherlock Holmes? / Andrew Terjesen; title: Sherlock Holmes: Artist of Reason / D.Q. McInerny; title: Sherlock Holmes and the Ethics of Hyperspecialization / Bridget McKenney Costello and Gregory Bassham; title: Passionate Objectivity in Sherlock Holmes / Charles Taliaferro and Michel Le Gall; title: The Industrious Sherlock Holmes / Gregory Bassham; title: The Dog That Did Not Bark: Learning How to Read "The Book of Life" / Carrie-Ann Biondi; title: Aristotle on Detective Fiction / Dorothy L. Sayers; title: The Grim Reaper on Baker Street / Elizabeth Glass-Turner.