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contract theory. His recently defended dissertation, which explains how social contract arguments work, reminds him of Ann; it has a low center of gravity and you can’t knock it down. (Her?)

Kristopher Phillips is an ABD graduate student of philosophy at the University of Iowa. His research interests include early modern metaphysics; specifically in Descartes and Spinoza. He has presented papers on Descartes, Hume, Berkeley, Spinoza, Leibniz, and the philosophy of biology. He has also contributed to Coffee: Ground for Debate. He is not, at least according to his website (http://imkristopher.com), the same person as the author of The Socrates Café.

Jason Southworth is an ABD graduate student in philosophy at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and a philosophy instructor at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. His research interests include philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He has contributed chapters to many pop culture and philosophy volumes, including Batman and Philosophy, Heroes and Philosophy, X-Men and Philosophy, Steven Colbert and Philosophy, and Final Fantasy and Philosophy. After thinking about it, he still isn’t sure where to put it . . . maybe in her brownie.

T-Bone: He’s a flamer (but I’m telling you this in confidence).

Ruth Tallman is an ABD graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and an adjunct instructor of philosophy at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. She has written chapters for other pop culture and philosophy volumes, including Heroes and Philosophy and Christmas and Philosophy. She is a country music loving lady.

Tyler Shores is currently a graduate student at Oxford. He received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley, where he created and for six semesters taught a course on The Simpsons and Philosophy (inspired by William Irwin’s book of the same name). Tyler has contributed to Heroes and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, and 30 Rock and Philosophy. He has also previously worked at Google and the Authors@Google lecture series. Prior to this, his fondest accomplishment was the time his debate club went to Sacramende for the semifinals.

M. E. Verrochi is a graduate student in philosophy at Michigan State University. Her philosophical interests range from feminist philosophy of language to concerns regarding the intersection (and influence!) of pop culture and ways of being. In 2007, she publicly announced that she really is the long-lost Bluth family member, N. Bluth. Unfortunately, though supposedly nothing comes before family (except, on occasion, breakfast), she has yet to be acknowledged by the clan as one of their own. She has one thing and one thing only to say to the Bluths: C’mon!

J. Jeremy Wisnewski has edited Family Guy and Philosophy, The Office and Philosophy, and 30 Rock and Philosophy. He has also written Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry, The Politics of Agency, and The Ethics of Torture. He is contemplating giving up writing, though, to take up full-time work in the Banana Stand.

Willie Young is associate professor of Humanities at Endicott College. He has written essays for South Park and Philosophy, Poker and Philosophy, and other pop culture books. He also is the author of Uncommon Friendships and The Politics of Praise. He is secretary of the Society of NeverNudes in Massachusetts, or SNM for short.

INDEX

Banana Stand Inventory

abstraction of moral law

Acceso Mexico

accidental properties

advertising, deceptive

aesthetics

After Virtue (MacIntyre)

alienation

being and

capitalism and

class status and

conspicuous consumption and

democratic socialism and

self-sacrifice and

“analrapist”

alienation and

Freudian psychology and

happiness and

social identity and

androgyny

Ann

class status and

contradiction and

Freudian psychology and

gender identity and

Annabell

Annyong

contradiction and

personal identity and

stakeholder theory and

Appiah, Kwame Anthony

arête

argument