Arrested Development and Philosophy: They've Made a Huge Mistake

INTRODUCTION 1
Kristopher Phillips

PART ONE FAMILY FIRST

1 Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?: Happiness, Self-Knowledge, and the Bluths 7
Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman

2 Kissing Cousins: Incest, Naturalism, and the Yuck Factor 23
Deborah R. Barnbaum

3 Freudian Arrested Development 33
Tim Jung

4 Don't Know Thyself: Gob and the Wisdom of Bad Faith 46
Daniel P. Malloy

PART TWO A BUSINESS MODEL

5 Dr. Fünke's 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution 61
Jeff Ewing

6 Family First: How Not to Run a Business 73
Brett Gaul

7 Bourgeois Bluths: Arrested Development and Class Status 85
Rachel McKinney

PART THREE SOME HUGE MISTAKES

8 What Whitey Isn't Ready to Hear: Social Identity in Arrested Development 99
J. Jeremy Wisnewski

9 "I Just Blue Myself": The Use and Abuse of Language in Arrested Development 111
M. E. Verrochi

10 To Bias Tobias: Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Arrested Development 123
Darci Doll

11 I'm Oscar.com: The Problem(s) of Personal Identity in Arrested Development 136
Kristopher Phillips

PART FOUR THE ONE WHERE THEY DO EPISTEMOLOGY

12 You Can't Do Magic: Gob Bluth and the Illusionists' Craft 151
Michael Cholbi

13 Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge? 162
Brett Coppenger and Kristopher Phillips

14 Bunkers and Balls: Arrested Development, Underdetermination, and the Theory-ladenness of Observation 172
Michael Da Silva

PART FIVE SOLID AS IRAQ: POLITICS AND ETHICS ARRESTED

15 No Touching! George Sr.'s Brush with Treason 185
Douglas Paletta and Paul Franco

16 "I've Made a Huge Mistake": George Oscar Bluth Jr. and the Role of Error in Character Development 197
Christopher C. Kirby, Jonathan Hillard, and Mathew Holmes

17 The Comedy of Contradiction 210
Erin Fay and Willie Young

PARTS IX: AND ON THE EPILOGUE . . .

18 And Now the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything: Arrested Development, Narrative, and How We Find Meaning 227
Tyler Shores

CONTRIBUTORS: Banana Stand Employee Roster 241

INDEX: Banana Stand Inventory 247