Ultimate Lost and Philosophy: Think Together, Die Alone

PART ONE: F IS FOR FORTUNE.

1 Lost in Lost's Times (Richard Davies).

2 Imaginary Peanut Butter: The Puzzles of Time Travel in Lost (William J. Devlin).

3 It Doesn't Matter What We Do: From Metaphysics to Ethics in Lost's Time Travel (Jeremy Pierce).

4 If Sawyer Weren't a Con Man, Then He Would Have Been a Cop: Counterfactual Reasoning in the Last Season of Lost (Deborah R. Barnbaum).

PART TWO: O IS FOR ORIGIN.

5 Lost in Different Circumstances: What Would You Do? (Charles Taliaferro and Dan Kastrul).

6 "Don't Mistake Coincidence for Fate": Lost Theories and Coincidence (Briony Addey).

7 Lost and the Question of Life after Birth (Jeremy Barris).

8 See You in Another Life, Brother: Bad Faith and Authenticity in Three Lost Souls (Sander Lee).

PART THREE: U IS FOR UNITY.

9 Lost’s State of Nature (Richard Davies).

10 Friends and Enemies in the State of Nature: The Absence of Hobbes and the Presence of Schmitt (Peter S. Fosl).

11 Ideology and Otherness in Lost: "Stuck in a Bloody Snow Globe" (Karen Gaffney).

PART FOUR: N IS FOR NECESSITY.

12 Escaping the Island of Ethical Subjectivism: Don’t Let Ben Bring You Back (George Wrisley).

13 Lost Together: Fathers, Sons, and Moral Obligations (Michael W. Austin).

14 Should We Condemn Michael? (Becky Vartabedian).

15 The Ethics of Objectifi cation and the Search for Redemption in Lost (Patricia Brace and Rob Arp).

PART FIVE: D IS FOR DESTINY.

16 The New Narnia: Myth and Redemption on the Island of Second Chances (Brett Chandler Patterson).

17 I Once Was Lost: Aquinas on Finding Goodness and Truth (Daniel B. Gallagher).

18 The Tao of John Locke (Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin).

19 Lost Metaphysics: Keeping the Needle on the Record (Donavan S. Muir).

APPENDIX: Who Are Locke, Hume, and Rousseau? The Losties' Guide to Philosophers (Scott F. Parker).

CONTRIBUTORS: Jacob's Candidates.

INDEX: Oceanic Flight 815 Manifest.