Research Catalog

Title

Discworld and philosophy : reality is not what it seems / edited by Nicolas Michaud.

Publication

• Chicago : Open Court, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Michaud, Nicolas.

Description

xii, 316 pages : illustration; 23 cm

Series Statement

Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 101

Uniform Title

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 101.

Subject

• Pratchett, Terry > Criticism and interpretation
• Pratchett, Terry
• Discworld (Imaginary place)
• Philosophy in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.

Contents

• Rewriting your chem -- More golems than you might think / Vanessa Frohlich -- Golem morality in the modern world / Matthew Skene -- We willna be fooled again! We free anarchists! / Michael Kugler -- The liberating power of Nanny Ogg's bouncing bosom / Vanessa Frohlich -- The truth shall make ye fret / Jamie Carlin Watson -- Truth, logic, and law are nice, but someone still has to do the wash -- The absurdity of the luggage / Brandon Kempner -- Pratchett's Republic / Brandon Kempner -- Honesty trumps cleverness: Sam Vimes and commonsense philosophy / Matthew Skene -- Why would you put a con artist in charge of the money? / Don Fallis -- Lord Vetinari's friendly guide to tyranny / Daniel Malloy -- Some things are necessary, not personal -- Can a leopard change its shorts? / Daniel Malloy -- Becoming Vetinari: personal identity on the Discworld / Jeremy Pierce -- How to be a dwarf / Daniel Malloy -- Being one's me: (witchy) personal identity on the Discworld / Trip McCrossin.
• Ye canna' ken what ye canna' ken -- The serious monk's guide to re-writing history / John V. Karavitis -- Getting at the truth / Douglas Jordan -- Sin, my young man, is when you treat people as things / Kamil Karas -- Probably quantum -- Fate on the Discworld and Roundworld / Jeremy Pierce -- The alchemy of flat worlds -- The intersection of science and philosophy, the seediest corner in Ankh-Morpork / Daniel Miori -- Welcome to my world / Christopher Ketcham -- Cocking a snook at Death, and getting away with it: does the personification of death make it less scary? / Daniel Miori -- I'd rather stay an orangutan because that's why Discworld exists / Nicolas Michaud.

Call Number

JFE 16-10118

ISBN

• 081269919X
• 9780812699197

OCLC

919104390

Title

Discworld and philosophy : reality is not what it seems / edited by Nicolas Michaud.

Publisher

Chicago : Open Court, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 101

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 101.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.

Added Author

Michaud, Nicolas.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10118