Doctor Strange and Philosophy

Mark D. White is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in philosophy, economics, and law. He is editor or co-editor of eight books in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, including Batman and Philosophy (Wiley Blackwell, 2008, with Robert Arp), and is the author of The Virtues of Captain America (Wiley Blackwell, 2014). He has also written, edited, and co-edited a number of academic books in philosophy, economics, and law, and has authored over 60 articles and book chapters in these areas. He can be found on Twitter as @profmdwhite.

• Contributors: The Philosophers Supreme viiiAcknowledgments: By the Glorious Grandiloquence of Gratitude! XivIntroduction: Opening the Book of the Vishanti 1Part I “You’re Just Another Tiny, Momentary Speck within an Indifferent Universe” 31 Bargaining with Eternity and Numbering One’s Days: Medicine, Nietzsche, and Doctor Strange 5George A. Dunn2 Death Gives Meaning to Life: Martin Heidegger Meets Stephen Strange 17Sander H. Lee3 “Time Will Tell How Much I Love You”: A Nietzschean Übermensch’s Issues with Love and Friendship 25Skye C. Cleary4 Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Meaning of Life for Doctor Strange 35Paul DiGeorgioPart II “Forget Everything That You Think You Know” 475 “Through an Orb Darkly”: Doctor Strange and the Journey to Knowledge 49Armond Boudreaux6 Forbidden Knowledge and Strange Virtues: It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Know It 60Tuomas W. Manninen7 Doctor Strange, Socratic Hero? 68Chad William Timm8 Are We All “Looking at the World Through a Keyhole”?: Knowledge, Ignorance, and Bias 78Carina Pape9 Stephen Strange vs. Ayn Rand: A Doesn’t Always Equal A 88Edwardo PérezPart III “Reality Is One of Many” 9910 Astral Bodies and Cartesian Souls: Mind‐Body Dualism in Doctor Strange 101Dean A. Kowalski11 Scientists, Metaphysicians, and Sorcerers Supreme 111Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas Richardson12 “This Is Time”: Setting Time in Doctor Strange by Henri Bergson’s Clock 125Corey LattaPart IV “A Man Looking at the World Through a Keyhole” 13713 A Strange Case of a Paradigm Shift 139Brendan Shea14 Doctor Strange, the Multiverse, and the Measurement Problem 151Philipp Berghofer15 The Strange World of Paradox: Science and Belief in Kamar‐Taj 164Matthew William BrakePart V “It’s Not About You” 17516 The Otherworldly Burden of Being the Sorcerer Supreme 177Mark D. White17 The Ancient One and the Problem of Dirty Hands 191Michael Lyons18 They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wong 197Daniel P. Malloy19 Doctor Strange, Master of the Medical and Martial Arts 207Bruce Wright and E. Paul ZehrPart VI “I’ve Come to Bargain” 21720 Is Dormammu Evil?: St. Augustine and the Dark Dimension 219Andrew T. Vink21 Doctor Strange and Leo Tolstoy: Brothers in Nonviolence? 228Konstantin Pavliouts22 Doctor Strange, Moral Responsibility, and the God Question 238Christopher P. KlofftThe Index of the All-Seeing Eye of Agamotto 250

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