Star Wars and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy Series) - Kevin Decker [108]
JEROME DONNELLY has taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and the University of Central Florida (Orlando) from which he recently retired. He has published criticism ranging from neoclassicism to popular culture and maintains that many great works of literature and art have been popular, but that mere popularity isn’t what makes works great. That includes Star Wars.
JASON T. EBERL is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Master’s degree program in Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He has published in metaphysics, bioethics, and medieval philosophy. He was once involved in a duel at point-blank range, but foolishly waited until the other guy shot first—Thankfully, he missed.
SHANTI FADER received a B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1993. She is currently the associate editor of Parabola magazine (a journal devoted to the study of myth and religious tradition), which has published a number of her essays, stories, and reviews. She can use her own hair to make the Princess Leia buns, and has won awards for her recreation of Padmé’s “picnic dress.”
RICHARD HANLEY is from Australia, where they make the good movies these days, and is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Star Trek, as well as articles on The Matrix, time travel, and more. Rumor has it he’s a protocol droid.
JAN-ERIK JONES is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Virginia University. He has published on metaphysics and early modern philosophy, and has been known to subject innocent bystanders to hours of detailed discussions of why lightsabers are impossible—Light doesn’t just stop three feet from its source!!
JAMES LAWLER teaches philosophy at SUNY-Buffalo. He has written The Existentialist Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, and a book on IQ theory that criticizes biological determinism: IQ, Heritability, and Racism. He has edited a book on the U.S. Constitution, The Dialectic of the U.S. Constitution: Selected Writings of Mitchell Franklin, and participated in a debate on socialism in Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists. His current book, Matter and Spirit: The Battle of Metaphysics in Early Modern Philosophy before Kant, will be published by University of Rochester Press. Recognized at the age of two as being strong with the Force, Jim was nevertheless rejected for being “too young.” He never forgave the Council, and chose philosophy instead. This was no accident.
JOSEPH W. LONG holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from Colorado State University and is expecting a Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University in 2005. He has published articles on epistemology and critical race theory and currently makes his home in northwest Iowa where it is only slightly colder than on Hoth.
WALTER ROBINSON, whose Buddhist name is Ritoku (which means “Gathering Virtue”), is a Zen monk and teaches East-West philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The focus of his academic interest is Buddhist philosophical psychology, and his fantasy is to discourse with Yoda on Zen koans.
WILLIAM O. STEPHENS is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at Creighton University. He has published on fate, love, ethics and animals, the concept of the person, sportsmanship and the Cubs fan, and various topics in Stoicism. He can easily be mistaken for a Wookiee when he rouses in the morning.
The Phantom Index
Absolute Spirit (Hegel)
Academy, Imperial
Ackbar, Admiral
acklay
Aikido
Alderaan
Alexander the Great
altruism
Amidala, Padmé
androids (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
angels
anger
Antilles, Wedge
Aquinas, St. Thomas
archetypes