By William Irwin, David Kyle Johnson published Inception and Philosophy a couple of years ago and delivered a terrific talk about it at Google. I’m a big fan of the films of Christopher Nolan, including Inception and Memento, but I had never noticed Nolan’s unique take on the femme fatale until I read this blog by…
By William Irwin I’m currently working on BioShock and Philosophy with volume editor Luke Cuddy. So far I’ve seen some terrific papers on personal identity, freedom, and possible worlds. I think it’s clear that some video games are works of art that are worthy of philosophical attention. It looks like I’m not alone in this…
By William Irwin I haven’t seen the new Robocop movie, but from the sound of this blog the movie was self consciously philosophical with characters named after contemporary philosophers of mind Daniel Dennett and Hubert Dreyfus.
John Candy and Philosophy Harry Crumb Meets Edmund Gettier David Kyle Johnson A friend of mine on Facebook (Chris Heimsoth) posted a request for his friends’ “favorite John Candy movie.” I immediately suggested Who’s Harry Crumb?, one of Candy’s lesser known comedies that I grew up on (because it happened to be on the same…
Queensrÿche and Philosophy The Metaphysics of Rock Groups William Irwin I’m going to see Queensrÿche in concert in July. Or am I? The band split into two Queensrÿches when the original lead singer, Geoff Tate, was fired in 2012. On April 17, 2014 the court ruled that the non-Tate version of the band has the…
Arrow and Philosophy: The Ethics of Retributive Justice Joseph J. Foy Oliver Queen was a trust-fund, billionaire playboy whose only cares in life were throwing the biggest, most lavish parties and finding a way to hide the fact that he was sleeping with his girlfriend’s sister. However, when his father’s yacht sinks, killing his girlfriend’s…
