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9781119633303 |
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9781119633280 |
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eng |
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The Good Place and philosophy / |
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edited by Kimberly S. Engels. |
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everything is forking fine! |
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Hoboken, NJ : |
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Wiley-Blackwell, |
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2021 |
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1 online resource |
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text |
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computer |
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online resource |
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Blackwell philosophy and popculture series. |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br/>KIMBERLY S. ENGELS is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. She is the author of numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, and is the co-editor of Westworld and Philosophy. |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>Contributors ix<br/><br/>Editor’s Introduction and Acknowledgments: “We Are Not in This Alone” xvii<br/>Kimberly S. Engels<br/><br/>Foreword xix<br/>Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place<br/><br/>Introduction xxiii<br/><br/>Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, philosophical advisors to The Good Place<br/><br/>Part I “I Just Ethics’d You in the Face” 1<br/><br/>1 How Do You Like Them Ethics? 3<br/>David Baggett and Marybeth Baggett<br/><br/>2 Don’t Let the Good Life Pass You By: Doug Forcett and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice 15<br/>Greg Littmann<br/><br/>3 Luck and Fairness in The Good Place 25<br/>Scott A. Davison and Andrew R. Davison<br/><br/>Part II “Virtuous for Virtue’s Sake” 35<br/><br/>4 Can Eleanor Really Become a Better Person? 37<br/>Eric J. Silverman and Zachary Swanson<br/><br/>5 The Good Place and The Good Life 47<br/>C. Scott Sevier<br/><br/>6 The Ethics of Indecision: Why Chidi Anagonye Belongs in The Bad Place 57<br/>Traci Phillipson<br/><br/>Part III “All Those Ethics Lessons Paid Off” 65<br/><br/>7 Moral Absurdity and Care Ethics in The Good Place 67<br/>Laura Matthews<br/><br/>8 The Medium Place: Third Space, Morality, and Being In Between 75<br/>Catherine M. Robb<br/><br/>9 What We May Learn from Michael’s Solution to the Trolley Problem 87<br/>Andreas Bruns<br/><br/>Part IV “Help Is Other People” 97<br/><br/>10 Some Memories You May Have Forgotten: Holding Space for Each Other When Memory Fails 99<br/>Alison Reiheld<br/><br/>11 The Good Other 110<br/>Steven A. Benko<br/><br/>12 Not Knowing Your Place: A Tale of Two Women 121<br/>Leslie A. Aarons<br/><br/>Part V “Absurdity Needs to Be Confronted” 131<br/><br/>13 Marginal Comforts Keep Us in Hell 133<br/>Jake Jackson<br/><br/>14 “I Would Refuse to Be a God if It Were Offered to Me”: Architects and Existentialism in The Good Place 141<br/>Kimberly S. Engels<br/><br/>Part VI “Searching for Meaning Is Philosophical Suicide” 153<br/><br/>15 Death, Meaning, and Existential Crises 155<br/>Kiki Berk<br/><br/>16 From Indecision to Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and Chidi’s Moral Growth 166<br/>Matthew P. Meyer<br/><br/>17 Beyond Good and Evil Places: Eternal Return of the Superhuman 178<br/>James Lawler<br/><br/>Part VII “The Dalai Lama Texted Me That” 189<br/><br/>18 Conceptions of the Afterlife: The Good Place and Religious Tradition 191<br/>Michael McGowan<br/><br/>19 Who Are Chidi and Eleanor in a Past-(After)Life? The Buddhist Notion of No-Self 202<br/>Dane Sawyer<br/><br/>Part VIII “Sometimes a Flaw Can Make Something Even More Beautiful” 211<br/><br/>20 Hell Is Other People’s Tastes 213<br/>Darren Hudson Hick and Sarah E. Worth<br/><br/>21 Why Everyone Hates Moral Philosophy Professors: The Aesthetics of Shallowness 224<br/>T Storm Heter<br/><br/>Part IX “Oh Cool, More Philosophy! That Will Help Us.” 237<br/><br/>22 An Epistemological Nightmare? Ways of Knowing in The Good Place 239<br/>Dean A. Kowalski<br/><br/>23 What’s the Use of Free Will? 249<br/>Joshua Tepley<br/><br/>24 From Clickwheel through Busty Alexa: The Embodied Case for Janet as Artificial Intelligence 260<br/>Robin L. Zebrowski<br/><br/>25 Why It Wouldn’t Be Rational to Believe You’re in The Good Place (and Why You Wouldn’t Want to Be Anyway) 270<br/>David Kyle Johnson<br/><br/>Index 283 |
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Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC’s The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show’s philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur <br/><br/>Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical concepts, questions, and fundamental ethical dilemmas at the heart of the thoughtful and ambitious NBC sitcom The Good Place<br/>Navigates the murky waters of moral philosophy in more conceptual depth to call into question what Chidi’s ethics lessons—and the show—get right about learning to be a good person<br/>Features contributions from The Good Place’s philosophical consultants, Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and introduced by the show’s creator and showrunner Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Office)<br/>Engages classic philosophical questions, including the clash between utilitarianism and deontological ethics in the “Trolley Problem,” Kant’s categorical imperative, Sartre’s nihilism, and T.M Scanlon's contractualism<br/>Explores themes such as death, love, moral heroism, free will, responsibility, artificial intelligence, fatalism, skepticism, virtue ethics, perception, and the nature of autonomy in the surreal heaven-like afterlife of the Good Place<br/>Led by Kimberly S. Engels, co-editor of Westworld and Philosophy |
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Good Place (Television program) |
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Philosophy. |
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Electronic books. |
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Engels, Kimberly S. |
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editor. |
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Full text available at Wiley Online Library Click here to view |
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119633303 |
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