@book {79515, title = {Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul}, year = {2008}, pages = {304}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons}, organization = {John Wiley \& Sons}, abstract = {

Why doesn{\textquoteright}t Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone{\textquoteright}s misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If everyone followed Batman{\textquoteright}s example, would Gotham be a better place? What is the Tao of the Bat? Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books, television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this caped crusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?

}, issn = {9780470532805}, author = {Mark D. White and Arp, Robert} } @book {79485, title = {Being and Time}, year = {2008}, publisher = {HarperCollins Publishers Inc}, organization = {HarperCollins Publishers Inc}, abstract = {

"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger{\textquoteright}s profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger{\textquoteright}s thought into account." This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson{\textquoteright}s definitive translation also features a new foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman."

}, isbn = {9780061575594}, author = {Martin Heidegger and John Macquarrie and Edward S. Robinson} } @book {79899, title = {Better Never to Have Been : The Harm of Coming into Existence}, year = {2008}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence--rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should--they presume that they do them no harm.

Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm. Although the good things in one{\textquoteright}s life make one{\textquoteright}s life go better than it otherwise would have gone, one could not have been deprived by their absence if one had not existed. Those who never exist cannot be deprived. However, by coming into existence one does suffer quite serious harms that could not have befallen one had one not come into existence.

Drawing on the relevant psychological literature, the author shows that there are a number of well-documented features of human psychology that explain why people systematically overestimate the quality of their lives and why they are thus resistant to the suggestion that they were seriously harmed by being brought into existence. The author then argues for the {\textquoteright}anti-natal{\textquoteright} view--that it is always wrong to have children--and he shows that combining the anti-natal view with common pro-choice views about foetal moral status yield a {\textquoteright}pro-death{\textquoteright} view about abortion (at the earlier stages of gestation). Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity became extinct.

Although counter-intuitive for many, that implication is defended, not least by showing that it solves many conundrums of moral theory about population.

}, isbn = {9780199549269}, author = {David Benatar} } @book {80875, title = {Being and event}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Continuum}, organization = {Continuum}, abstract = {

This translation originally published: 2005. Includes appendices, dictionary, and notes. Being and Event is the centrepiece of Alain Badiou{\textquoteright}s oeuvre; it is the work that grounds his reputation as one of France {\textquoteright}s most original philosophers. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou{\textquoteright}s groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. This book makes the scope and aim of Badiou{\textquoteright}s whole philosophical project clear, enabling full comprehension of Badiou{\textquoteright}s significance for contemporary philosophy. In Being and Event, Badiou anchors this project by recasting the European philosophical tr.

Part I. Being : multiple and void : Plato/Cantor {\textendash} pt.

II. Being : excess, state of the situation, one/multiple, whole/parts, or E/C? {\textendash} pt.

III. Being : nature and infinity : Heidegger/Galileo {\textendash} pt.

IV. The event : history and ultra-one {\textendash} pt.

V. The event : intervention and fidelity : Pascal/choice; Holderlin/deduction {\textendash} pt.

VI. Quantity and knowledge : the discernible (or constructible) : Leibniz/Godel {\textendash} pt.

VII. The generic : indiscernible and truth : the event {\textendash} P.J. Cohen {\textendash} pt.

VIII. Forcing : truth and the subject : beyond Lacan.

}, isbn = {0826458319}, author = {Alain Badiou} } @book {79243, title = {Brainstorms: Philosophical essays on mind and psychology}, number = {8}, year = {1981}, publisher = {MIT press}, organization = {MIT press}, author = {Dennett, Daniel Clement} } @book {80504, title = {Being and time}, year = {1975}, publisher = {HarperCollins Publishers Inc}, organization = {HarperCollins Publishers Inc}, address = {New York}, isbn = {9780060638504}, author = {Martin Heidegger} } @book {80762, title = {Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology}, year = {1966}, publisher = {Washington Square Press}, organization = {Washington Square Press}, isbn = {B001GB9CEC}, author = {Jean-Paul Sartre} }