Research Catalog

Title

Ender's Game and Philosophy : the Logic Gate is Down / edited by Kevin S. Decker.

Publication

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Decker, Kevin S.

Description

vii, 234 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

Uniform Title

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.

Subject

• Card, Orson Scott
• Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character)
• Science fiction, American > History and criticism
• Philosophy in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"The teachers got me into this": educational skirmishes ... with a pinch of freedom / Cam Cobb -- Illusions of freedom, tragedies of fate: the moral development of Ender Wiggin / Jeremy Proulx -- Xenocide's paradox: the virtue of being Ender / Jeff Ewing -- Teaching to the test: constructing the identity of a space commander / Chad William Timm -- The enemy's gate is down: perspective, empathy, and game theory / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- War games as child's play / Matthew Brophy -- Forming the formless: Sunzi and the military logic of Ender Wiggin / Morgan Deane -- Do good games make good people? / Brendan P. Shea -- Bugger all!: the clash of cultures in Ender's game / Cole Bowman -- Why Ender can't go home: philotic connections and moral responsibility / Brett Chandler Patterson -- Of gods and buggers: friendship in Ender's game / Jeffery L. Nicholas -- "I destroy them": Ender, good intentions, and moral responsibility / Lance Belluomini -- Ender's beginning and the just war / James L. Cook -- "You had to be a weapon, Ender ... We aimed you": moral responsibility in Ender's game / Danielle Wylie -- The unspoken rules of manly warfare: just war theory in Ender's game / Kody W. Cooper -- Locke and Demosthenes: virtually dominating the world / Kenneth Wayne Sayles III -- Ender's dilemma: realism, neoliberalism, and the politics of power / Ted Henry Brown and Christie L. Maloyed -- People are tools / Greg Littmann.

Call Number

JFE 13-6962

ISBN

• 9781118386576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1118386574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781118572672 (wol)
• 111857267X (wol)
• 9781118386552 (emobi) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781118386583 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781118572696 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013006641
• 40022594619

OCLC

828481937

Title

Ender's Game and Philosophy : the Logic Gate is Down / edited by Kevin S. Decker.

Publisher

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Decker, Kevin S., editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40022594619

Research Call Number

JFE 13-6962