Philosophy and Breaking Bad (eBook) von Kevin S. Decker

Introduction; Kevin S. Decker, David Koepsell, and Robert Arp.- Part I. We Tried to Poison YouBreaking Evil.- 1. Breaking Bad and Evil; Jen Baker.- 2. Eichmann in Albuquerque; Karen Adkins.- 3. Empathy and Evil: Drug-Dealing Murderers are People Too; Charlene Elsby and Rob Luzecky.- Part II. I am the One Who Knocksthe Shadow of Death and the Meaning of Life.- 4. Shadow of the Sickness Unto Death: Walter Whites Transformation into the Knight of Meth; Frank Scalambrino.- 5. Death is Easy if Youre Dead; Christopher Ketcham.- 6. If Sociopaths and Antiheroes Can Lead Meaningful Lives, What Does it All Mean?; Kimberly Blessing.- Part III. I Will Put You Under the Jailthe Tragedy of Breaking Bad.- 7. Law and Morality in Breaking Bad; David Koepsell.- 8. One Bad DayHow Did Walter Break Bad?; James B. South.- 9. Yo, BitchThe Crumbling Masculine Monument and the Reign of Feminist Ethics in Breaking Bad; Leigh Kolb.- Part IV. I Did I For MeMorality, Mastery and Meth.- 10. Recovering Lost Moral Ground: Can Walt Make Amends?; Joseph Mahon and James Edwin Mahon.- 11. Morality in-Action; Adam Barkman and Travis Dyk.- 12. Bad Faith in Breaking Bad: Walter White and Heisenberg; Leslie Aarons.- Part V. Becoming Jess JamesBreaking Bads Challenge to Philosophy.- 13. Hatred, Vengeance, and Justice; Kevin Guilfoy.- 14. We Are Responsible to All for All: An Intersubjective Analysis of Breaking Bad; Sheridan Hough.- 15. Breaking Bads Case Studies in Absurdity; Kevin S. Decker.

David R. Koepsell has been a tenured associate professor of philosophy at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and a Visiting Professor at UNAM, Instituto de Filosoficas and the Unidad Posgrado, Mexico. 

Robert Arp is the author ofScenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solvingand co-author ofPhilosophy DeMYSTiFieD, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well, 2nd Edition, andWhat's Good on TV? Teaching Ethics through Television. He is also editor of1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think, South Park and Philosophy, Tattoos-Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am, Psych and Philosophy, Homeland and Philosophy,andThe Devil and Philosophy.