Game of Thrones and Philosophy

Foreword
 
Acknowledgments: How I was spared from having to take the Black
 
Introduction: So What if Winter Is Coming?
 
Part One. "You Win or You Die"
 
1. Maester Hobbes Goes to King's Landing
Greg Littmann
 
2. It is a Great Crime to Lie to a King
Don Fallis
 
3. Playing the Game of Thrones: Some Lessons from Machiavelli
Marcus Schulzke
 
4. The War in Westeros and Just War Theory
Richard H. Corrigan
 
Part Two. "The Things I Do for Love"
 
5. Winter is Coming! The Bleak Quest for Happiness in Westeros
Eric Silverman
 
6. The Death of Lord Stark: The Perils of Idealism
David Hahn
 
7. Lord Eddard Stark, Queen Cersei Lannister: Moral Judgments from Different Perspectives
Albert J. J. Angleberger and Alexander Hieke
 
8. It Would Be a Mercy: Choosing Life or Death in Westeros and Beyond
Matthew Tedesco
 
Part Three. "Winter is Coming"
 
9. Wargs, Wights, and Wolves that are Dire: Mind and Metaphysics, Westeros Style
Henry Jacoby
 
10. Magic, Science, and Metaphysics in A Game of Thrones
Edward Cox
 
11. "You know nothing, Jon Snow": Epistemic Humility Beyond the Wall
Abraham P. Schwab
 
12. "Why is the world so full of injustice?" Gods and the Problem of Evil
Jaron Daniel Schoone
 
Part Four. "The Man Who Passes the Sentence Should Swing the Sword"
 
13. Why Should Joffrey Be Moral If He's Already Won the Game of Thrones?
Daniel Haas
 
14. The Moral Luck of Tyrion Lannister
Christopher Robichaud
 
15. Dany's Encounter with the Wild: Cultural Relativism in Games of Thrones
Katherine Tullman
 
16. "There Are No True Knights": The Injustice o Chivalry
Stacey Goguen
 
Part Five. "Stick Them with the Pointy End"
 
17. Fate, Freedom, and authenticity in A Game of Thrones
Michael J. Sigrist
 
18. No One Dances the Water Dance
Henry Jacoby
 
19. The Things I Do For Love: Sex,

William Irwin ist Assistenz-Professor für Philosophie am King's College in Pennsylvania.