Call for Abstracts

Adventure Time and Philosophy

Edited by Nicolas Michaud

The Popular Culture and Philosophy Series

Abstracts and subsequent essays must be accessible to a lay audience as well as philosophically substantial. All writing should be engaging and directly relevant to the Adventure Time TV series.

***The 10 to 12-paged papers are written in a conversational style***

Submission Guidelines:

Submission deadline for abstracts (100-500 words) and CV’s: Monday, December 16th Notification of accepted abstracts: Wednesday, December 18th Submission deadline for first drafts of accepted papers: Monday, January 13th

Kindly submit abstract (with or without Word attachment) and CV by email to: Nicolas Michaud (micn0001@unf.edu).

Metaphysical Questions: What is the nature of reality? Is the land of Ooo real?

Moral Questions: Should we try to be heroes? When does heroism go too far?

Linguistic Questions: How does the construction of “Adventure” assume violence?

Social Questions: Are we on our way towards our own apocalyptic reality?

Epistemic Questions: How do we know we aren’t in Ooo?

Philosophy of Sex and Gender: How is gender bent in Adventure Time?

Or any other though-provoking philosophical issue brought up by Adventure Time!

For Example,

• Virtue Ethics and Heroism. What Makes a Hero?

• What does Finn Owe Jake? Animal Right in the Land of Ooo.

• Are Finn and Jake More than Friends? Homosocial Questions in Ooo.

• Is Marceline Really That Bad? The Nature of Evil.

• Can We really know Lady Rainicorn? The Inadequacy of Translation for Meaning.?

• Lumpyness and Egoism. Is it Really that Bad to be Selfish?

• How Many Gunter’s Are There? The Problem of Identity

• Is Beemo a Person? Artificial Intelligence and Morality

• Is Princess Bubblegum Really a Scientist?

• Marriage is Slavery. Feminism and the Ice King.

• Does Gender Exist? Fionna and Princess Gumball.

• When is it Ok to Blow Your Own People? Ruling the Candy People.

• Can Flame Princess Really Love?

• Creating Worlds: How Would Bishop Berkley Describe the Land of Ooo?

• Do Candy People Have Souls?

• Do Candy People Dream? How Do We Know We Aren’t in Ooo?

• Finn and Jake, BFF’s. What does “Friendship” Really Mean?

• Princess Bubblegum and Deception: When is it OK to Lie?

• Morality and Murder. When is Killing “Bad Guys” ok?

• What is the Difference Between Sense and Nonsense?

• Is the Candy Kingdom a Functioning Socialism?

• Where is Consciousness? What Happens When Beemo’s Batteries Die?

Please visit http://www.opencourtbooks.com/categories/pcp.htm for more information on Open Court’s Pop Culture and Philosophy series.

To propose ideas for future volumes in the Open Court series please contact the Series Editor,

George A. Reisch, at: pcpideas@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Nicolas Michaud

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