Ultimate Lost and Philosophy

SHARON KAYE is professor of philosophy at John Carroll University and edited the original Lost and Philosophy.WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy. To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com

• Introduction: Lost and F.O.U.N.D. 1Part One F is for Fortune1 Lost in Lost’s Times 9Richard Davies2 Imaginary Peanut Butter: The Puzzles of Time Travel in Lost 32William J. Devlin3 It Doesn’t Matter What We Do: From Metaphysics to Ethics in Lost’s Time Travel 47Jeremy Pierce4 If Sawyer Weren’t a Con Man, Then He Would Have Been a Cop: Counterfactual Reasoning in the Last Season of Lost 63Deborah R. BarnbaumPart Two O is for Origin5 Lost in Different Circumstances: What Would You Do? 75Charles Taliaferro and Dan Kastrul6 “Don’t Mistake Coincidence for Fate”: Lost Theories and Coincidence 91Briony Addey7 Lost and the Question of Life after Birth 107Jeremy Barris8 See You in Another Life, Brother: Bad Faith and Authenticity in Three Lost Souls 120Sander LeePart Three U is for Unity9 Lost’s State of Nature 145Richard Davies10 Friends and Enemies in the State of Nature: The Absence of Hobbes and the Presence of Schmitt 164Peter S. Fosl11 Ideology and Otherness in Lost: “Stuck in a Bloody Snow Globe” 187Karen GaffneyPart Four N is for Necessity12 Escaping the Island of Ethical Subjectivism: Don’t Let Ben Bring You Back 207George Wrisley13 Lost Together: Fathers, Sons, and Moral Obligations 220Michael W. Austin14 Should We Condemn Michael? 233Becky Vartabedian15 The Ethics of Objectification and the Search for Redemption in Lost 241Patricia Brace and Rob ArpPart Five D is for Destiny16 The New Narnia: Myth and Redemption on the Island of Second Chances 253Brett Chandler Patterson17 I Once Was Lost: Aquinas on Finding Goodness and Truth 280Daniel B. Gallagher18 The Tao of John Locke 300Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin19 Lost Metaphysics: Keeping the Needle on the Record 312Donavan S. MuirAppendix: Who Are Locke, Hume, and Rousseau? The Losties’ Guide to Philosophers 321Scott F. ParkersContributors: Jacob’s Candidates 341Index: Oceanic Flight 815 Manifest 347

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