Lost and Philosophy: The Island Has Its Reasons

Introduction: L.O.S.T. in Lost: Sharon Kaye (John Carroll University).

Part I. ‘L’ is for Love.

1. What Do Jack and Locke Owe their Fathers?: Michael W. Austin (Eastern Kentucky University).

2. Saving Walt: Frameworks for Evaluating Action: Rebecca Vartabedian (Metropolitan State College of Denver).

3. Moral Stand-offs: Objectification on Lost: Robert Arp (Southwest Minnesota State University) and Patricia Brace (Southwest Minnesota State University).

4. Research Ethics and the Dharma Initiative: Deborah R. Barnbaum (Kent State University).

5. The Island of Ethical Subjectivism: Not the Paradise of Lost: George Wrisley (University of Iowa).

Part II. ‘O’ is for Origin.

6. Meaning and Freedom on the Island: Sander Lee (Keene State College).

7. What Would You Do?: Altered States in Lost: Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College) and Dan Kastrul (Chez Nous, Inc.).

8. Reinvention and Second Nature in Lost: Charles Girard (Universite Paris 1) and David Meulemans (Aix Marseille Universite).

9. Lost, The Third Policeman, and Guerilla Ontology: Jessica Engelking (University of Iowa).

10. Lost in Codes: Interpretation and Deconstruction in Lost’s Narrative: Tom Grimwood (Lancaster University).

Part III. ‘S’ is for Survival.

11. No Exit …from the Island: A Sartrean Analysis of Lost: Sandra Bonetto (University College Dublin).

12. "The Others Are Coming": Ideology and Otherness in Lost: Karen Gaffney (Raritan Valley Community College).

13. Tortured Souls: Scott Parker (Portland State University).

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

15. Lost’s State of Nature: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo).

16. From Daniel Defoe to J.J. Abrams: Lost and Island Survivor Fiction: Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Laurier University).

Part IV. ‘T’ is for Transformation.

17. The Tao of John Locke: Shai Biderman (Boston University) and William Devlin (Boston University).

18. Of Moths and Men: Paths of Redemption on the Island of Second Chances: Brett Chandler Patterson (Anderson University).

19. Everything Happens for a Reason: David Werther (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

20. "Don’t mistake coincidence for fate": Lost Theories and Coincidence: Briony Addey (University of Bristol).

21. Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason: Daniel B. Gallagher (Sacred Heart Major Seminary).

22. Lost and the Problem of Life after Birth: Jeremy Barris (Marshall University).