Doctor Strange and Professor Hegel in the Multiverse of Madness By Elliot Dolan-Evans SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains plot spoilers for the blockbuster superhero production, The Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, so you’ve been duly warned… Cinemagoers have welcomed the long-awaited release of the 28th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,…
Doctor Strange’s “Endgame” Ethics Consequentialism, Foreknowledge, and Expedient Evils By Cheyne L. Joslin [NOTE: Major Spoilers ahead for Avengers: Infinity War.] Doctor Strange’s choice to give up the Time Stone to Thanos near the close of Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War left many fans responding with confusion and questions as to what the outcome of…
Life and Time in Doctor Strange Immortality in the Dark Dimension Joachim Lipski The 2016 movie Doctor Strange tells us of Stephen Strange’s clash with his fellow sorcerer Kaecilius. According to Kaecilius’ dogma, time is life’s mortal enemy. This belief is what drives him into the servitude of Dormammu, the ruler (or quasi-deity) of…
“Sorcery”? “Science”? Magic and Spirit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Armond Boudreaux One of the most interesting developments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since its inception almost ten years ago has come, not in an Avengers or an Iron Man film, but in a television show and in a movie based on one of…
Call for Abstracts Doctor Strange and Philosophy Edited by Mark D. White The Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for cross posting. To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at williamirwin@kings.edu If you have comments or criticisms for the series,…
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