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24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack

Jennifer Hart Weed (Editor), Richard Brian Davis (Editor), Ronald Weed (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7104-5
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224 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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The following takes place between 12:00 A.M. and 12:00 A.M.:.

12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M. CLASSIFIED: Table of Contents.

1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M. Dedication: To Edgar.

2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M. Foreword: Philosophy? If You Don’t Know 24, You Don’t Know Jack! Tom Morris (Morris Institute for Human Values).

3:00 A.M.-4:00 A.M. Introduction: CTU Orientation.

Ronald Weed (Tyndale University College).

4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M. Acknowledgements: Chloe, We Need You!.

5:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M. Special Agent Jack Bauer.

What Would Jack Bauer Do? Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory in 24.

Randall M. Jensen (Northwestern College).

Between Hero and Villain: Jack Bauer and the Problem of “Dirty Hands”.

Steve de Wijze (University of Manchester).

Beyond the Call of Duty.

Richard Davis (Tyndale University College).

Truth and Illusion in 24: —Jack Bauer,: Dionysus in the World of Apollo.

Stephen Snyder (Saint Louis University and Washington University).

9:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. The Oval Office and the Halls of Power.

President Palmer and the Invasion of China: The Beginning of a Just War?.

Jennifer Hart Weed (Tyndale University College).

Jack Bauer as Anti-Eichmann and Scourge of Political Liberalism.

Brandon Claycomb (Marian College) and Greig Mulberry (Mississippi State University).

Palmer’s Pickle: Why Couldn’t He Stomach it?.

Georgia Testa (University of Leeds).

12:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. CTU Headquarters.

The Ethics of Torture in 24: Shockingly Banal.

Dónal P. O’ Mathúna (Dublin City University).

Loyalty and the “War of All Against All” in 24.

Eric M. Rovie (Georgia State University).

Who Dares Sins: Jack Bauer and Moral Luck.

Rob Lawlor (University of Leeds).

3:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Moles, Double-Agents, and Terrorists.

Living in a World of Suspicion: The Epistemology of Mistrust.

Scott Calef (Ohio Wesleyan University).

The Cruel Cunning of Reason: The Modern/Postmodern Conflict in 24.

Terrencey Kelly (University of Alaska, Anchorage).

The Knowledge Game Can Be Torture.

R. Douglas Geivett (Biola University).

6:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. Technology, Objectification, and the Clock.

How the Cell Phone Changed the World and Made 24.

Read Mercer Schuchardt (New Forest Institute).

24 and the Ethics of Objectification.

Robert Arp (National Center for Biomedical Ontology) and John Carpenter (Florida State University).

Jack in Double Time for Jack: 24 in Light of Aesthetic Theory.

Paul A. Cantor (University of Virginia).

9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M. CLASSIFIED: CTU Personnel.

10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M. CLASSIFIED: Assets and Sources.

11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M. CLASSIFIED: The Codes

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