Stephen Colbert and Philosophy - Aaron Allen Schiller [137]
Comedy Central
conservatives
Constitution Center
context
Cooper, Anderson
Cosby, Bill
Coulter, Ann
crack crisis of the 1980s
Craig, Larry
creationism
critical thinking
Crossfire (TV show)
Curtin, Jane
Daeschler, Ted
The Daily Show
Dante Alighieri: Paradisio
Dartmouth
Dawkins, Richard
Dean, Howard
deconstruction
DeGeneres, Ellen
Democracy
Democrats
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, René; Meditations on First Philosophy
Diamond, Neil
Dickerson, Debra
Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper
Diller, Barry
Dobson, James
doublethink
Douglas, Stephen A.
Dracula, Count
duck-rabbit
Dyson, Michael Eric; Come Hell or High Water (book)
Eddie Bauer
education and discomfort
Elders, Joycelyn (former U.S. Surgeon General)
elitism
Elizabeth II, Queen
Ellen DeGeneres Paradox
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Encyclopedia Britannica
Episcopal Church
Epistemology
epoche
Erasmus; The Praise of Folly
ethics; care-based; duty-based; rights-based
Euclidean Geometry
Euthyphro
evolution
Executive Order No. 11246, “Equal Employment Opportunity,”
Exxon
fact of “non-allness,”
factiness
factinistas
facts: on the difficulty of establishing an objective set of; easy to accept; politically-loaded facts and media neutrality; as discussed on The WØRD
fallacy of composition
fallacy of false dichotomy
Falwell, Jerry
FCC
Feinberg, Joel: Social Philosophy (book)
Ferraro, Geraldine
Fish, Stanley
Flanagan, Caitlin: To Hell with All That (book)
Flannery, Tim: The Weather Makers (book)
Focus on the Family
Foley, Mark
Fonda, Jane; and fondling Stephen
forms of life
Foucault, Michel; Fearless Speech
Founding Fathers
Fowler, James
Fox News
Frank, Barney
Frankfurt, Harry G.; On Bullshit
free market; and American higher education
freem (freedom without the ‘do’); the Heroes and freemdom; implications of; as in part responsible for economic collapse; the real cost of; as a stance toward viewing audiences
Freud, Sigmund; Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Friedman, Milton
Friedman, Thomas
Frost, Robert
gays (who will roast forever in hell)
gender-neutral society
General Electric
gestalt theory
Gibson, Charles
Gibsonopoulos
Girls Gone Wild
Gladwell, Malcolm: Blink
global climate change; and the Kyoto accords
Good Morning America (TV show)
Gore, Al
gravitas
Gray, John, and the Rivalry between the Oshawa Generals and the Saginaw Spirit
Grice, Paul
grippy
Guantanamo Bay
gun control
Hagee, John
Haggard, Ted
Hampden Sydney College
Hannity, Sean
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Helmke, Paul
Heraclitus
Heroes, see Colbert Nation
Hinckley, Jr., John
Hinduism
Hippocrates
Hitler Youth, the
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas; Leviathan; Human Nature
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Hoover, Herbert
Howard, David
Huffington Post
Huffington, Arianna
Hume, David
humor
Humorous Attitude
Hurricane Katrina
Hussein, Saddam
Hutcheson, Sir Francis: Reflections Upon Laughter
implicature
incongruity theory of humor
Indian skepticism
infinite regress
International Council of Jurists
intuition
intuitionism
iPod
Iraq War, the
irony: the ethical thrust of Colbert’s; Kierkegaard on; the “mirror”; Platonic; Socratic versus Platonic
Islam (the one great and true religion revealed in the Holy Koran, which was dictated by the angel Gabriel to the final prophet Mohammed, Blessing and Peace Be Upon Him)
it-getters
Jackson, Samuel L.
James, LeBron
Jarvis, Peter: Universities and Corporate Universities
Jastrow, Joseph: Fact and Fable in Psychology (book)
Jayarasi; The Lion of the Destruction of Principles (book)
Jefferson, Thomas: Notes on the State of Virginia
Jesus
JFK (movie)
JFK conspiracy theories
Jihadists
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnstone, Keith
Judaism
Kalahari bushmen
Kant, Immanuel