"Series editor: William Irwin" -- on Bookcover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Gospel, gossip, and Ghent : how should we understand the new Star Wars? / Episode I: Philosophical menace. Platonic paradox of Darth Plagueis : how could a sith lord be wise? / Roy T. Cook, Nathan Kellen. "You are asking me to be rational : stoic philosophy and the Jedi order / Matt Hummel -- Jedi knights of faith : Anakin, Luke, and Soren (Kierkegaard) / William A. Lindenmuth -- Anakin and Achilles : scars of nihilism / Don Adams -- Dark times : the end of the republic and the beginning of Chinese philosophy / Kevin S. Decker -- Episode II: Attack of the morals. Chasing Kevin Smith : was it immoral for the rebel alliance to destroy Death Star II? / Charles C. Camosy -- The ballad of Boba Fett : mercenary agency and amoralism in war / David LaRocca -- How guilty is Jar Jar Binks? / Nicolas Michaud -- "Know the dark side" : a theodicy of the force / Jason T. Eberl -- Episode III: Revenge of the alliance. "Like my father before me" : loss and redemption of fatherhood in Star Wars / Charles Taliaferro, Annika Taylor Beck -- The friends of a Jedi : friendship, family, and civic duty in a galaxy at war / Greg Littmann -- Light side, dark side, and switching sides : loyalty and betrayal in Star Wars / Daniel Malloy -- Guardians and tyrants in the republics of Star Wars and Plato / Adam Barkman, Kyle Alkema -- Episode IV: New hermeneutic. Pregnant Padme and slave Leia : Star Wars female role models / Cole Bowman -- Docile bodies and a viscous force : fear of the flesh in Return of the Jedi / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Of battle droids and zillo beasts : moral status in the Star Wars galaxy / James M. Okapal -- Episode V: Metaphysics strikes back. Why the force must have a dark side / George A. Dunn -- What is it like to be a Jedi? A life in the force / Marek McGann -- "Never tell me the odds" : an inquiry concerning Jedi understanding / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- Episode VI: Return of the non-human. Mindless philosophers and overweight globs of grease : are droids capable of thought? / Dan Burkett -- Can Chewie speak? : Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language / Rhiannon Grant, Myfanwy Reynolds -- Can the zillo beast strike back? Cloning, de-extinction, and the species problem / Leonard Finkelman -- Episode VII: Fandom awakens. In that time in a galaxy far, far away : epic myth-understandings and myth-appropriation in Star Wars / John Thompson -- Star Wars, emotions, and the paradox of fiction / Lance Belluomini -- The mind of blue snaggletooth : the intentional stance, vintage Star Wars action figures, and the origins of religion / Dennis Knepp -- Gospel, gossip, and Ghent : how should we understand the new Star Wars? / Roy T. Cook, Nathan Kellen.
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