• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: Heroes and philosophy : buy the book, save the world
  • Enthält: 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 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.
  • Beteiligte: Johnson, David Kyle [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Erschienen: Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2009]
  • Erschienen in: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
  • Umfang: ix, 310 Seiten; Diagramme
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9780470373385
  • RVK-Notation: AP 39800 : Einzelne Sendungen
  • Schlagwörter: Heroes (Television program) ; Superheroes ; Conduct of life
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  • Anmerkungen: Literaturangaben
  • Beschreibung: 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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