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245 00 $aHeroes and philosophy :$bbuy the book, save the world /$cedited by David Kyle Johnson.
260 $aHoboken, N.J. :$bJohn Wiley & Sons,$cc2009.
300 $aix, 310 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aThe Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: the wonder of Heroes -- Heroic obligations. Above the social contract? How superheroes break society / Robert Sharp -- Heroes, obligations, and the ethics of saving the world / J.K. Miles -- Corporate capers : the moral dimensions of working for the company / Christopher Robichaud -- With great creativity comes great imitation : problems of plagiarism and knowledge / Jason Southworth -- Supermen, samurai, and invisible men. Time and the meaning of life in Heroes and Nietzsche / Tyler Shores -- Hiro Nakamura, Bushido, and hero archetypes / Erik Daniel Baldwin -- Plato on Gyges' ring of invisibility : the power of Heroes and the value of virtue / Don Adams -- Metaphysics, regular physics, and heroic time travel. The foreknowledge of a painter, the fate of a Hiro / David Kyle Johnson -- Time to be a hero : branching time and changing the future / Morgan Luck -- Heroes and the ethics of time travel : does the present matter? / David Faraci -- The science of Heroes : flying men, immortal samurai, and destroying the space-time continuum / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- Pseudoscience, scientific revolutions, and Dr. Chandra Suresh / David Kyle Johnson and Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- The minds of Heroes. Peter Petrelli, the Haitian, and the philosophical implications of memory loss / Peter Kirwan -- Understanding other minds : philosophical foundations of Heroes' mind-reading powers / Fabio Paglieri -- Peter Petrelli : the power of empathy / Andrew Terjesen -- Villains, family, and lying. Are the heroes really good? / Peter S. Fosl -- Heroes and family obligations / Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth -- Concealment and lying : is that any way for a hero to act? / Michael R. Berry.
630 00 $aHeroes (Television program)
650 0 $aSuperheroes.
650 0 $aConduct of life.
700 1 $aJohnson, David Kyle.
830 0 $aBlackwell philosophy and popculture series.
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