Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture From Socrates to Star Wars and Beyond Edited by William Irwin and David Kyle Johnson Second Edition
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Notes on Contributors Robert Arp works for the US Army at Fort Leavenworth and teaches philosophy courses at several schools online. He has edited and co‐edited nearly two dozen books, as well as authored and co‐authored some three dozen chapters, in the pop culture and philosophy realm. Steve Bein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton, where he is a specialist in Asian philosophies. He is a regular contributor to volumes on philosophy and pop culture, including chapters on Star Trek, Wonder Woman, LEGO, Blade Runner, Disney, Mr. Rogers, Batman, and the forthcoming Black Panther and Philosophy. He’s also a novelist, and his sci‐fi short stories have been used in philosophy and science fiction courses across the US. His philosophy books include Purifying Zen and Compassion and Moral Guidance. Jeremy David Bendik‐Keymer holds the Beamer‐Schneider Professorship in Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where the land is occupied only through violated indigenous treaties from the late eighteenth century. His books include The Ecological Life: Discovering Citizenship and a Sense of Humanity and The Wind ~ An Unruly Living, and Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene: On Decoloniality. Arno Bogaerts finished his studies in philosophy and ethics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, where he wrote several essays focusing on the superhero genre. He is a writer and editor for the Belgian comic book website Brainfreeze and has contributed chapters to The Avengers and Philosophy and Superman and Philosophy. Currently, Bogaerts owns and manages a rock bar and is thinking about getting yet another Superman tattoo. Timothy E. Brown is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. Dr. Brown is a founding member of and long‐term contributor to the Neuroethics Thrust within the Center for Neurotechnology at UW. He also leads diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts with the International Neuroethics Society. Dr. Brown works at the intersection of biomedical ethics, philosophy of technology, (black/latinx/queer) feminist thought, and esthetics. His research explores the potential impact of neurotechnologies – systems that record and stimulate the nervous system – on end users' sense of agency and embodiment. His work also interrogates neurotechnologies for their potential to exacerbate or create social inequities, in order to establish best practices for the design of future devices and techniques. Paul A. Cantor is Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has also taught at Harvard University in both the English and the Government departments. He has published widely on popular culture, including his books Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization, The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV, and Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies. Roy T. Cook is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. He works primarily on the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and the aesthetics of popular culture. He is the author of The Dictionary of Philosophical Logic, Key Concepts in Philosophy: Paradoxes, The Yablo Paradox: An Essay on Circularity; and editor or co‐editor of The Arche Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction, The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (with Aaron Meskin), The Routledge Companion to Comics (with Frank Bramlett and Aaron Meskin), LEGO and Philosophy: Constructing Reality Brick‐by‐Brick (with Sondra Bacharach), and Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics
