Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: “It’s My Own Invention”— Yeah, Right! ix

Introduction: You’re Late for a Very Important Date 1

PART ONE “WAKE UP, ALICE DEAR”

1 Unruly Alice: A Feminist View of Some Adventures in Wonderland 7
Megan S. Lloyd

2 Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow, but Never Jam Today: On Procrastination, Hiking, and . . . the Spice Girls? 19
Mark D. White

3 Nuclear Strategists in Wonderland 33
Ron Hirschbein

4 “You’re Nothing but a Pack of Cards!”: Alice Doesn’t Have a Social Contract 47
Dennis Knepp

PART TWO “THAT’S LOGIC”

5 “Six Impossible Things before Breakfast” 61
George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald

6 Reasoning Down the Rabbit-Hole: Logical Lessons in Wonderland 79
David S. Brown

7 Three Ways of Getting It Wrong: Induction in Wonderland 93
Brendan Shea

8 Is There Such a Thing as a Language? 107
Daniel Whiting

PART THREE “WE’RE ALL MAD HERE”

9 Alice, Perception, and Reality: Jell-O Mistaken for Stones 125
Robert Arp

10 How Deep Does the Rabbit-Hole Go?: Drugs and Dreams, Perception and Reality 137
Scott F. Parker

11 Perspectivism and Tragedy: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Alice’s Adventure 153
Rick Mayock

12 Wishing It Were Some Other Time: The Temporal Passage of Alice 167
Mark W. Westmoreland

PART FOUR “WHO IN THE WORLD AM I?”

13 Serious Nonsense 183
Charles Taliaferro and Elizabeth Olson

14 “Memory and Muchness”: Alice and the Philosophy of Memory 197
Tyler Shores

CONTRIBUTORS: Pawns and Pieces: As Arranged before Commencement of Game 213

INDEX: “Down, Down, Down”: What You Will Find at the Bottom 219