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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Heroes and philosophy
    sub title: buy the book, save the world
  name:
    name part: Johnson, David Kyle.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction: the wonder of Heroes -- Heroic obligations. Above the social contract? How superheroes break society / Robert Sharp -- Heroes, obligations, and the ethics of saving the world / J.K. Miles -- Corporate capers : the moral dimensions of working for the company / Christopher Robichaud -- With great creativity comes great imitation : problems of plagiarism and knowledge / Jason Southworth -- Supermen, samurai, and invisible men. Time and the meaning of life in Heroes and Nietzsche / Tyler Shores -- Hiro Nakamura, Bushido, and hero archetypes / Erik Daniel Baldwin -- Plato on Gyges' ring of invisibility : the power of Heroes and the value of virtue / Don Adams -- Metaphysics, regular physics, and heroic time travel. The foreknowledge of a painter, the fate of a Hiro / David Kyle Johnson -- Time to be a hero : branching time and changing the future / Morgan Luck -- Heroes and the ethics of time travel : does the present matter? / David Faraci -- The science of Heroes : flying men, immortal samurai, and destroying the space-time continuum / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- Pseudoscience, scientific revolutions, and Dr. Chandra Suresh / David Kyle Johnson and Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- The minds of Heroes. Peter Petrelli, the Haitian, and the philosophical implications of memory loss / Peter Kirwan -- Understanding other minds : philosophical foundations of Heroes' mind-reading powers / Fabio Paglieri -- Peter Petrelli : the power of empathy / Andrew Terjesen -- Villains, family, and lying. Are the heroes really good? / Peter S. Fosl -- Heroes and family obligations / Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth -- Concealment and lying : is that any way for a hero to act? / Michael R. Berry.
  note: edited by David Kyle Johnson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Heroes (Television program)
  subject:
    topic: Superheroes
  subject:
    topic: Conduct of life
  classification: PN1992.77.H47 H47 2009
  classification: 791.45/72
  classification: 809.222
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Blackwell philosophy and popculture series
  identifier: 9780470373385 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0470373385 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2009007426
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090223
    record change date: 20151111065337.0
    record identifier: in00002516530