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, Lies, and Game Theory R. Shannon Duval 20. Stop the Madness! Knowledge, Power, and Insanity in A Song of Ice and Fire Chad William Timm Contributors: The Learned Lords and Ladies from Beyond the Seven Kingdoms Index