The Good Place and philosophy
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. Explicitly dedicated to the philosophi...
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2021.
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| Series: | Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. "I just ethics'd you in the face". How do you like them ethics? / David Baggett, Marybeth Baggett
- Don't let the good life pass you by / Greg Littmann
- Luck and fairness in the good place / Scott A Davison, Andrew R Davison - Part 2. "Virtuous for virtue's sake". Can Eleanor really become a better person? / Eric J. Silverman, Zachary Swanson
- The good place and the good life / C. Scott Sevier
- The ethics of indecision / Traci Phillipson - Part 3. "All those ethics lessons paid off". Moral absurdity and care ethics in the good place / Laura Matthews
- The medium place / Catherine M. Robb
- What we may learn from Michael's solution to the trolley problem / Andreas Bruns - Part 4. "Help is other people". Some memories you may have forgotten / Alison Reiheld
- The good other / Steven A. Benko
- Not knowing your place / Leslie A. Aarons - Part 5. "Absurdity needs to be confronted". Marginal comforts keep us in hell / Jake Jackson
- "I would refuse to be a god if it were offered to me" / Kimberly S. Engels - Part 6. "Searching for meaning is philosophical suicide". Death, meaning, and existential crises / Kiki Berk
- From indecision to ambiguity / Matthew P. Meyer
- Beyond good and evil places / James Lawler - Part 7 "The Dalai Lama texted me that". Conceptions of the afterlife / Michael Mcgowan
- Who are Chidi and Eleanor in a past-(after)life? The Buddhist notion of no-self / Dane Sawyer - Part 8. "Sometimes a flaw can make something even more beautiful". Hell is other people's tastes / Darren Hudson Hick, Sarah E. Worth
- Why everyone hates moral philosophy professors / T. Storm Heter - Part 9. "Oh cool, more philosophy! That will help us.". An epistemological nightmare? Ways of knowing in the good place / Dean A Kowalski
- What's the use of free will? / Joshua Tepley
- From clickwheel through busty Alexa / Robin L. Zebrowski
- Why it wouldn't be rational to believe you're in The Good Place (and why you wouldn't want to be there anyway) / David Kyle Johnson.
