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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE - “HUMANITY IS OVERRATED”: HOUSE ON LIFE
Chapter 1 - SELFISH, BASE ANIMALS CRAWLI NG ACROSS THE EARTH: HOUSE AND THE ...
“If You Talk to God, You’re Religious; If God Talks to You, You’re Psychotic”
Eternity, Anyone?
“If Her DNA Was Off by One Percentage Point, She’d Be a Dolphin”
“You Could Think I’m Wrong, but That’s No Reason to Stop Thinking”
House and the Life of Reason
NOTES
Chapter 2 - HOUSE AND SARTRE: “H E LL IS OTHER PEOPLE”
Sartre’s Theory of Others: A Case History
Others: A Painful Need
One Room, One Hell
NOTES
Chapter 3 - IS THERE A SUPERMAN IN THE HOUSE?: A NIETZSCHEAN POINT OF VIEW
Men and Supermen
House’s Character
The Double Standard
House’s Style
Denial
Pain
Inheriting the Earth
The Fiction
NOTES
Chapter 4 - HOUSE AND MORAL LUCK
The Problem of Moral Luck
Results Are What Matter
Agent-Regret and Feeling Guilty
Agent-Regret and Shrugging It Off
How Much Is a Doctor Responsible For?
The Problem of Purity
NOTES
PART TWO - “WELCOME TO THE END OF THE THOUGHT PROCESS”: HOUSE’S LOGIC AND METHOD
Chapter 5 - THE LOGIC OF GUESSWORK IN SHERLOCK HOLMES AN D HOUSE
The Game’s Afoot
House and Holmes
House’s Logic
House’s Abductions
Musement and Abduction
House vs. Moriarty
It’s Elementary, My Dear Cameron
NOTES
Chapter 6 - IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Finding the Right Explanation
The Great Puzzle
NOTES
Chapter 7 - THE SOUND OF ONE HOUSE CLAPPING: THE UNMANNERLY DOCTOR AS ZEN RHETORICIAN
House, Zen, and Making Sense
A Style of Behaving Ethically
A Way of Establishing Intimacy
A Path to Truth, and a Method of Healing
House Sitting
NOTES
Chapter 8 - “BEING NICE IS OVERRATED”: HOUSE AND SOCRATES ON THENECESSITY OF CONFLICT
“What’s Wrong with Them?”: Are House and Socrates Two Raving Lunatics?
“Nice Tries Are Worthless”: First Know That You Don’t Know
“Treat Everybody as If They Have Korsakoff’s”: The Role of Irony
“Differential Diagnostics, People”: The Socratic Method of Hypothesis
“Make a Note: I Should Never Doubt Myself”: Defending the Most Likely Solution
“Subordinates Can Disagree with Me All They Want, It’s Healthy”: The Necessity ...
“Reality Is Almost Always Wrong”: Prejudices Hide the Truth
“You Can Disagree with Me. It Does Not Mean That You Have to Stop Thinking”: ...
NOTES
Chapter 9 - IS THERE A DAOIST IN THE HOUSE?
Read Less, Watch More Television
The Sage as Standard
The Dao of Diagnostic Medicine
NOTES
PART THREE - “IT IS THE NATURE OF MEDICINE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO SCREW UP”: ...
Chapter 10 - “YOU CARE FOR EVERYBODY”: CAMERON’S ETHICS OF CARE
Beyond “Doctor Knows Best”: Feminist Ethics
“It Almost Looks Like He’s . . . Caring”: The Ethic of Care
Does Cameron Care Too Much?
You’re Basically “a Stuffed Animal Made by Grandma”
NOTES
Chapter 11 - TO INTUBATE OR NOT TO INTUBATE: HOUSE’S PRINCIPLES AND PRIORITIES
The Principles
Beneficence Trumps Nonmaleficence
Beneficence Trumps Autonomy?
Beneficence Trumps Justice?
Evaluation: Doing the Math
Diagnosis
NOTES
Chapter 12 - HOUSE AND MEDICAL PATERNALISM: “YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT”
House and the Concept of Paternalism
The Presentation of Medical Paternalism in the Fictional World of House
The Ethics of Medical Paternalism in the Real World
NOTES
Chapter 13 - IF THE END DOESN’T J USTI FY THE MEANS, THEN WHAT DOES?
What Is a Utilitarian?
Act vs. Rule Utilitarianism
Best Possible Consequences
Is House a Morally Good Person?
Chapter 14 - HOUSE VS. TRITTER: ON THE CLASH OF THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL AUTHORITY
Two Kinds of Authority
Authority and Service
A Problem
NOTES
PART FOUR - “THE DRUGS DON’T MAKE ME HIGH, THEY MAKE ME NEUTRAL”: VIRTUES AND ...
Chapter 15 - HOUSE AND THE VIRTUE OF ECCENTRICITY
Thoreau and Eccentricity
Diogenes and Eccentricity
Socrates and Eccentricity
The Virtue of Eccentricity
Self-development and Moral Progress
Eccentricity and Moral Progress
NOTES
Chapter 16 - LOVE: THE ONLY RISK HOUSE CAN’T TAKE
The Problem: Why Do You Love Me?
Is Love an Emotion?
Love Is a State of the Will
Knowledge and Love
Properties of the Beloved
Love Is Creative
Is Erotic Love Moral?
Why House Can’t Love: Vulnerability in Love
NOTES
Chapter 17 - A PRESCRIPTION FOR FRIENDSHIP
What Does It Take to Be a Friend?
Are House and Wilson Really Friends? (or “Everything Sucks, So You Might as ...
The Vogler Challenge
The Tritter Challenge
Chase and Cameron: Does Sex Ruin Friendships?
Cameron and Foreman Aren’t Friends—or Are They?
Pursuing Excellence
NOTES
Chapter 18 - DIAGNOSING CHARACTER: A HOUSE DIVIDED?
Patient Gregory House
On the Blackboard: What Are the Virtues?
House Lacks Moral Virtue
The Unity of the Virtues
Oh What a Tangled Web
He’s Sick, but Not That Sick
House’s Open-Mindedness
House’s Intellectual Courage
Maggots, Break-ins, Whatever It Takes
Disunity of the Virtues?
Prognosis: Do We Really Want a Healthy House?
NOTES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES
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