The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy

Abstract

The Good Place as Philosophy: Moral Adventures in the Afterlife.-Twilight Zone as Philosophy 101 -- Star Trek as Philosophy: Spock as Stoic Sage -- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Philosophy: Gene Roddenberry's Argument for Humanism -- Battlestar Galactica as Philosophy: Breaking the Biopolitical Cycle -- Black Sails as Philosophy: Pirates and Political Discourse -- Doctor Who as Philosophy: Four-Dimensionalism and Time Travel -- Breaking Bad as Philosophy -- The Handmaid's Tale as Philosophy: Autonomy and Reproductive Freedom -- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood as Philosophy: Children as Philosophers -- Futurama as Philosophy: Wisdom from the Ignorance of a Delivery Boy -- Firefly as Philosophy: Social Contracts, Political Dissent, and Virtuous Communities -- Arrested Development as Philosophy: Family First? What We Owe Our Parents -- The Doctor as Philosopher: The Collectivist-Realist Pacificism ofthe Doctor and the Quest for Social Justice. .