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003 DLC
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008 090223s2009 nju 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009007426
020 $a9780470373385 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPN1992.77.H47$bH47 2009
082 00 $a791.45/72$222
245 00 $aHeroes and philosophy :$bbuy the book, save the world /$cedited by David Kyle Johnson.
260 $aHoboken, N.J. :$bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,$c2009.
263 $a0909
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aThe Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
500 $aIncludes 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 hero / 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 physics of heroes : immortal samurais, flying men, 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 mindreading 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 this any way for a hero to act? / Mike Berry.
630 00 $aHeroes (Television program)
650 0 $aSuperheroes.
650 0 $aConduct of life.
700 1 $aJohnson, David Kyle.