INDEX

For Those Who Can’t Read Minds

abstinence

Adam

aging

Alcibiades

animal rights

personhood and

respect for animals and

speciesism and

a posteriori knowledge

appearance

beauty

Edward and

femininity and

feminism and

apple metaphor

a priori knowledge

Aquinas, Thomas

argument

Aristotle

Aro

Augustine, Saint

Austen, Jane

Austin, J. L.

authority, free will and. See also patriarchy

autonomy

baby boomer generation

Baudrillard, Jean

beauty. See appearance

benevolence, morality and

Bible

”forbidden fruit” metaphor and

on kosher law

See also religion

Black, Jacob

Edward and

free will and

morality and

Quileute storyline and

Tao of

body anxiety

Bordo, Susan

boredom, immortality and

Brontë, Charlotte

Brontë, Emily

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky)

Brotherson, Laura M.

Buddhism

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Byron, Lord (George Gordon)

Byronic heroes

defined

Edward Cullen as

feminism and

in Jane Eyre

Camus, Albert

Capek, Karel

care ethics

Caring (Noddings)

categorical desire

Catholic Church

“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” (Byron)

choice. See free will

Christianity

Christian Science

Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (LDS)

Clearwater, Leah

Coleman, Loren

communication, importance of

compassion

care ethics and

feelings and

human traits as “gifts” and

relationships with others and

as “super-power”

concupiscence

conscience

consciousness

controlling behavior. See patriarchy

Coppola, Francis Ford

Copycat Effect, The (Coleman)

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)

cross, semiotics and

Crowley, Tyler

Cullen, Alice

existentialism and

morality and

Cullen, Carlisle

compassion and

fear of death and

free will and

immortality and

morality and

Taoism and

theodicy and

Cullen, Edward

as Byronic hero

compassion and

immortality and

mind-reading trait of

Mormonism and

ontology and

as patriarchal

personhood and

physical appeal of

semiotics and

Taoism and

theodicy and

as “vegetarian” vampire

violence and

See also Swan, Bella

Cullen, Emmet

Cullen, Jasper

Cullen, Renesmee

aging and

compassion and

free will and

Cullen, Rosalie

cultural influence. See popular culture influence

Dalai Lama

death

fear of

love and

vampires as serial killers

“vegetarian” vampires and

violence and

de Beauvoir, Simone

deduction

Denali clan

Deseret Book

desire

categorical desire

free will and

Kant on moral obligation and

divorce

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Dracula, Count

Dracula (1931 film)

Dracula (1992 film)

Dracula (Stoker)

Dwyer, Renee

Earnshaw, Cathy (Wuthering Heights character)

economic abuse

Eddy, Mary Baker

education, gender and

elitism

empathy

Enchiridion (Augustine)

enjoyment

equality

as necessary for love

patriarchy and

erôs

Eve

evil. See theodicy

existentialism

allure of vampires and

fear of death and

feminist existentialism

love and

The Second Sex (de Beauvoir) and

Eyre, Jane (Jane Eyre character)

fallibilism

fear of death

feminism

Bella as feminist hero and

Byronic heroes in literature and

on equality and love

feminist existentialism

“having it all” and

See also popular culture influence

Ferrars, Edward (Sense and Sensibility character)

“flourishing”

food analogy

concupiscence and

erôs and

eroticism and

perfection and

”forbidden fruit” metaphor

Forks, Washington

“For the Strength of Youth” (LDS)

Frankfurt, Harry

Freeland, Cynthia

free will

authority and

defined

desire and

Freud, Sigmund

Fu Hsi

fundamentalism

Garrett

Generation Me (Twenge)

Genesis

“gifts”

compassion and

morality and

See also superpowers, of vampires

Gilbert, Sandra M.

Gladwell, Malcolm

God

free will and

morality and

portrayal of vampires and religion

theodicy and

See also religion

goodness. See also theodicy

Götzen-Dämmerung (Nietzsche)

Grossman, Lev

Gubar, Susan

Harry Potter (Rowling)

Heidegger, Martin

Hobbes, Thomas

honesty

hooks, bell

Host, The (Meyer)

How to Do Things with Words (Austin)

Huang Ti

humanity. See personhood

humility

Husserl, Edmund

hypothesis

icon, semiotics and

identity

if-then claims

immortality

boredom and

fear of death and

living a meaningful life and

soul and

imprinting

index, semiotics and

induction

intimate partner violence

Irina

James

Bella’s desire for immortality and

theodicy and

Jane

Jane Eyre (Brontë)

Jones, Cleolinda

justice

Kant, Immanuel

on animals and respect

on moral obligation

on rationalism

on space and time

Kierkegaard, Søren

King, Stephen

Klosterman, Chuck

kosher butchers

Lao Tzu

Laurent

Leibniz, G. W.

Locke, John

love

death and

equality and

femininity and

feminism and

gender equality and

immortality and

morality and

Lucretius

Lugosi, Béla

Luther, Martin

Lysias

madness, erôs as

Makropulos, Elina (Capek character)

Malfoy, Draco (Harry Potter character)

marriage, as eternal

Marsyas

meaning, immortality and

Mencius

Meyer, Stephenie

The Host

religion and

Twilight audience and popular culture influence

Twilight portrayal of vampires

Twilight series title as ambiguous

Mill, John Stuart

mind reading

morality of

ontology and

moderation

moral community

personhood and

“vegetarian” vampires and

morality

benevolence and

character and

love and equality

privacy and

religious faith and

utilitarianism

Mormonism

Mormon Times

My Confession (Tolstoy)

New Moon (Twilight book)

Newton, Mike

New York Times

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Noddings, Nel

Nussbaum, Martha

ontology

On Writing (King)

Palin, Sarah

patriarchy

controlling behavior and

equality and love

Peirce, Charles Sanders

perfection

performative utterance

personhood

”flourishing” and

moral community and

rationality and

souls and

Phaedrus (Plato)

Phillips, Lynn

physical appearance. See appearance

Pipher, Mary

Plato

on evil

Phaedrus

Ring of Gyges

Symposium

popular culture influence

Bella as feminist hero and

narcissism and

simulacra in popular culture and

violence and

Potter, Harry

power

character and

feminism and

”Power of Context”

privacy

Protestant Reformation

psychological abuse

Quileute Native American tribe

Quileute wolves

rationality

Regan, Tom

religion

Buddhism

Catholic Church and

Christian fundamentalism

Christian Science

“forbidden fruit” metaphor and

free will and

kosher law

Mormonism

semiotics and

Taoism

See also God; theodicy

Republican National Convention (2008)

Reviving Ophelia (Pipher)

Ring of Gyges (Plato)

Robbins, Tom

Rochester, Edward ( Jane Eyre character)

Rorty, Richard

Rowling, J. K.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir)

self-love (narcissism)

self-transcendence

semiotics

Sense and Sensibility (Austen)

serial killers, vampires as

sex

carnal knowledge

eroticism

eroticism and food analogy

gender equality and

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (Klosterman)

shape-shifting

simulacra, in popular culture

Singer, Peter

Slote, Michael

social anxiety

social contract philosophy

Socrates

soul

immortality and

morality and

personhood and

space, time and

speciesism

Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer character)

“sprouts” of compassion

stalking

Stoker, Bram

“subjects of life”

sunlight

superpowers, of vampires

Swan, Bella

compassion and

Edward as Byronic hero and

existentialism and allure of vampires

feminist existentialism and

as feminist hero

food analogy and

free will and

“having it all” and

immortality and

morality and

Mormonism and

narcissism and

ontology and

patriarchy and

patriarchy and equality

personhood and

semiotics and

Taoism and

theodicy and

“vegetarian” vampires and

See also Cullen, Edward

Swan, Charlie

Swan, Renee. See Dwyer, Renee

symbol, semiotics and

Symposium (Plato)

Tanya

Taoism

Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)

theodicy

defined

evil as necessary for goodness

existence of evil and

ignorance and evil

transcendence and

Thucycdides

Time

time, space and

Tipping Point, The (Gladwell)

Tolstoy, Leo

tourists

Twenge, Jean M.

Twilight (book series) (Meyer)

cultural influence of

portrayal of vampires by

“twilight” as ambiguous

Uley, Sam

U.S. Department of Justice

utilitarianism

values, differences of

vampires

aging and

body anxiety and

Byronic heroes and

compassion and

consciousness and

fear of death and

morality and

ontology and

as portrayed in Twilight

social anxiety and

super-powers of

as “vegetarian”

wish fulfillment and

See also personhood; individual character names

Victoria

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

violence against women (VAW)

Volturi

Aro

free will and

immortality and

morality and

personhood and

theodicy and

Warren, Mary Anne

Weber, Angela

wei wu wei

werewolves

immorality and

imprinting and free will

Quileute storyline and

See also individual character names

Williams, Bernard

wish fulfillment, vampires and

World Health Organization (WHO)

Wuthering Heights (Brontë)

yin-yang concept

Young, Emily

Zeus