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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Part One: F Is for Fortune
Part Two: O Is for Origin
Part Three: U Is for Unity
Part Four: N Is for Necessity
Part Five: D Is for Destiny
PART ONE - F IS FOR FORTUNE
Chapter 1 - LOST IN LOST’S TIMES
Losing the Plot
Constants and Variables
We’re All in This Together
“We Have to Go Back”
The Course of the Future
The Shape of Things to Come
Whatever Happened, Happened
The Total Experience
NOTES
Chapter 2 - IMAGINARY PEANUT BUTTER
Building the Orchid Station: Basic Concepts of Time Travel
Whatever Happened, Happened
We’re the Variables
Loop, Dude
One Miles? Two Miles? How Many Versions of Miles Can There Be?
There’s No Place Like Home
Well, What Goes Around, Comes Around
None of It Matters Anyway, Then, Does It?
Chapter 3 - IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT WE DO
The Metaphysics of Time Travel
Shooting Benjamin Linus
The Man in Black: Manipulating Time Travel
The Incident
The Rules Don’t Apply to You
Time Travel Ethics in Lost
NOTES
Chapter 4 - IF SAWYER WEREN’T A CON MAN, THEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A COP
Counterfactual Reasoning
Counterfactuals Count
Closeness among Possible Worlds, or Why It Just Seems Wrong That Jack Fathered ...
NOTES
PART TWO - O IS FOR ORIGIN
Chapter 5 - LOST IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES
Just Testing
What a Bunch of Characters!
The Ball’s in Your Court!
Life Goes On
NOTES
Chapter 6 - “DON’T MISTAKE COINCIDENCE FOR FATE”
Take Your Chances
Take Your Pick
Jung and Locke
The Birthday Paradox
It’s a Small World, After All
Coincidence vs. Conspiracy
Jacob Have I Loved
It’s Hurley
NOTES
Chapter 7 - LOST AND THE QUESTION OF LIFE AFTER BIRTH
Why Are We Here?
How Does It All Make Sense?
Is This Life the Whole of What There Is?
Art and Entertainment
NOTES
Chapter 8 - SEE YOU IN ANOTHER LIFE, BROTHER
The Man of Science
The Man of Faith
The Failsafe
It Worked
PART THREE - U IS FOR UNITY
Chapter 9 - LOST’S STATE OF NATURE
Lining Up for Peace
Human Nature and Natural Man
Amid the Wreckage
The Longer Haul
Over or Under the Language Barrier
Confidence and the Con Men
Roles and Rules
Tit for Tat
Gaining Trust from the Past
NOTES
Chapter 10 - FRIENDS AND ENEMIES IN THE STATE OF NATURE
Locke: Reason, Rights, and Torture
Rousseau and Hume: Friendship and Feeling
Who Needs Hobbes?
About Schmitt
The Final Solution
NOTES
Chapter 11 - IDEOLOGY AND OTHERNESS IN LOST
Ideology: Drinking the Kool-Aid
Ideology and the Dharma Initiative: A Snow Globe
The Others
Fearing the Others: “Run, Hide, or Die”
Recognizing the Others: “There’s a Line”
Becoming the Others: “The Good Guys”
“Lost”
PART FOUR - N IS FOR NECESSITY
Chapter 12 - ESCAPING THE ISLAND OF ETHICAL SUBJECTIVISM
How Important Are Jack’s or the Man in Black’s Approval or Disapproval?
Tolerance and the Importance of Disagreement
Why neither Hurley nor the Dharma Initiative Can Make It So
If Not on the Island of Ethical Subjectivism, Then Where?
Chapter 13 - LOST TOGETHER
“You Don’t Have What It Takes”
“You’re Not Wanted”
What Do Jack, Locke, and the Rest of Us Owe Our Parents?
“Hey, Freckles”
“I’m Not One of His Friends”
The Source?
“I’ve Done Everything You Wanted Me to Do!”
“Dead Is Dead” (or Is It?)
NOTES
Chapter 14 - SHOULD WE CONDEMN MICHAEL?
The Character
The Theory
The Button: How Prima Facie Duties Work
Saving Walt: Prima Facie Duties, Actual Duty, and Equilibrium
Meet Kevin Johnson
“Hey, Hurley ... If You See Libby Again ... Tell Her I’m Very Sorry”
We Never Really Go It Alone
NOTES
Chapter 15 - THE ETHICS OF OBJECTIFICATION AND THE SEARCH FOR REDEMPTION IN LOST
You Kant Take It with You
Milling Around
The Virtue of Virtue
Redemption Redeemed
Real World Island
PART FIVE - D IS FOR DESTINY
Chapter 16 - THE NEW NARNIA
Myth, Not Allegory
Into the Mythic World
Tested by Crisis
“It Has Never Been Easy”: The Struggle for Faith and the Quest for Redemption
The White Witch vs. Asian and the Man in Black vs. Jacob
“Live Together, Die Alone”: Redemption and New Community
NOTES
Chapter 17 - I ONCE WAS LOST
“I Know There’s Someone There”
“Welcome to the Wonderful World of Not Knowing the Hell What’s Going On”
“We’re Going to Have a Rational Conversation Regarding Our Next Move”
“I’m a Coward”
“So Much for Fate”
“You’re More Lost Than You Ever Were”
“I Believe in What I Can See”
“I Have Made My Peace”
“The Universe Has a Way of Cross-Connecting”
“Free Will Is All We Really Got, Right?”
NOTES
Chapter 18 - THE TAO OF JOHN LOCKE
“I’m Good at Putting Bits and Pieces Together”
“This Is Destiny. This Is My Destiny.”
Man of Science, Man of Faith
“I Was Looking for Something ... It Found Me”
NOTE
NINETEEN - LOST METAPHYSICS
Lost’s Narrative Structure
Lost Metaphysics
Annihilation of Oppositions
Keep the Needle on the Record
APPENDIX - Who are Locke, Hume, and Rousseau? The Losties’ Guide to Philosophers
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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