"Steve Jobs represents a whole range of values and ideas in pluralistic American culture. He was a barefoot hippy capitalist who did more to change our everyday lives than anyone since Thomas Edison. Coming from modest means and education, he revolutionized several key industrie…
Academic philosophers apply their field to the popular series of children's books and subsequent movies about a boy wizard going to wizard school. They cover the characters, morality, the dark arts, and metaphysics. Readers are expected to be intimately familiar with the books. …
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In Harry Potter and Philosophy, individual chapters look at such topics as life revealed in the Mirror of Erised; the ethics of magic; Moaning Myrtle, Nearly Headless Nick, and the relation of the mind to the brain; and the character of Hermione as a case of "sublimated feminism…