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Heroes and Philosophy: Buy the Book, Save the World
2009, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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1282369695 9781282369696
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Heroes and philosophy: buy the book, save the world
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Table of Contents
Introduction: 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.
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Includes index.
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