Joshua Heter

Jefferson College
  • Post-Punk and Philosophy: Rip it Up and Think Again (edited book)
    with Richard Greene
    Carus Books. forthcoming.
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    The Godfather and Philosophy is comprised of twenty-eight chapters by philosophers, who reflect upon the ethical and metaphysical issues raised in The Godfather novels and movies, beginning with the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo and the 1972 movie by Francis Ford Coppola. The Godfather saga has had a profound impact on American cinema, storytelling, thinking about crime, and popular culture. Aimed at thoughtful fans of The Godfather franchise, among the questions tackled in these provocative philosop…Read more
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    Logic: A Guided Introduction
    Independently Published. 2021.
    Logic: A Guided Introduction to Logic is a guided introduction to logic.
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    Isaac Asimov’s Foundation is the most influential science-fiction epic of all time. Published as a series of books and short stories from the 1940s to the 1980s, the series has impacted most subsequent science fiction, and also influenced sciences like sociology, statistics, and psychology. The story has now been made into a highly acclaimed TV serial (Foundation), on Apple TV, the second season now shooting in Prague. The story begins 45,000 years in the future, and spans centuries in which a v…Read more
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    Better Call Saul and Philosophy is an anthology, a collection of essays exploring the philosophical themes present in the hit television show Better Call Saul. Premiering in the Spring of 2015, Better Call Saul serves as a prequel to the much beloved and critically acclaimed television show Breaking Bad in a which mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher, Walter White - through a series of poor, albeit strained decisions - slowly but steadily becomes a monstrous drug kingpin. In Better Call S…Read more
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    Westworld and Philosophy: Mind Equals Blown (edited book)
    with Richard Greene
    Popular Culture and Philosophy. 2018.
    A posse of philosophers chases after the most exciting philosophical ideas in Westworld.
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    Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy (edited book)
    with Richard Greene
    Carus Books. 2022.
    “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.” Karl Marx might have been thinking of punk rock when he wrote these words in 1847, but he overlooked the possibility that new forms of solidity and holiness could spring into existence overnight. Punk rock was a celebration of nastiness, chaos, and defiance of convention, which quickly transcended itself and develo…Read more
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    The Man In The High Castle And Philosophy: Subversive Reports from another Reality (edited book)
    with Bruce Krajewski
    Open Court. 2017.
    The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an "alternate present" (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern U.S. occupied by Nazi Germany, and a small "neutral zone" between them. A theme of the story is that in this alternative world there is eager speculation, fueled by the illicit newsreel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, about how the world would have been d…Read more
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    Eavesdropping in Context
    Analytic Philosophy 55 (4): 363-367. 2014.