Role of Matter: Biology or Function?
11 Amnesia, Personal Identity, and the Many Lives of Wolverine
What is Personal Identity?
Cassandra Nova, Charles Xavier, and John Locke
Bringing it all Back to Wolverine
Jamie Madrox and Derek Parfit
Bringing it all Back to Wolverine (Again)
Be Slow to Judge
12 The Consolation of Bilbo
What Has it Got in its Pocketses?
The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge
Freedom and the Music
Tolkien's Boethian Solution
13 Inception and Free Will
Alternate Wills
We May Not be Free
Compatibilism
Frankfurt Counterexamples
Should We Worry?
14 Turing's Dream and Searle's Nightmare in Westworld
What Does it Mean to Think? Turing Versus Searle
Searle, the Chinese Room, and Ford
Hosts and Guests: What is the Difference?
The Maze: Is it Consciousness?
15 What is it Like to Be a Host?
Your Phone is Not Conscious
What is it Like to be a Bat?
Philosophical Zombies
When Are We?
It Does Not Look Like Anything to Me
Limit Your Emotional Affect Please
Everything Will be What it Isn't
I Know Only That I Slept a Long Time, and Then One Day I Awoke
Violent Ends
16 The Time Travel in Avengers: Endgame
The Grandfather Paradox
Branching Time Travel
Lewisian Time Travel
A Disappointing Ending …
… But Not a Disappointing Movie
11 Part IV: Philosophy of Religion 17 South Park, Cartmanland, and the Problem of Evil “And That's it?” The Story of Job The Sweet Milk of Our Tears “You Are Up There!” Free Hat, Free Willzyx, Free Will “Are You There God, It's Me, Jesus” “Go, God, Go” 18 Hidden Mickeys and the Hiddenness of God Emphatic Silence: The Experience of Divine Hiddenness The Argument from Divine Hiddenness When is a Hidden Mickey a Hidden Mickey? The Disanalogy Between Hidden Mickeys and Divine Hiddenness Might God Be Hidden for Love's Sake? 19 The Jedi Knights of Faith “I Can't Kill My Own Father” “Mostly Because of My Father, I Guess” “Something is Out of Place!” “I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing” “I Take Orders from Just One Person: Me” “It's a Trap!” “That's Impossible!” Bringing Balance to the Force
12 Part V: Ethics 20 Why Doesn't Batman Kill the Joker? Meet the Joker Is Batman a Utilitarian or Deontologist? (Or None of the Above?) To the Bat‐Trolley, Professor Thomson! Hush Will Love This Next Story … Top 10 Reasons the Batmobile is Not a Trolley … “I Want My Lawyer! Oh, That's Right, I Killed Him Too” Case Closed – Right? 21 Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes “‘In the End’? Nothing Ends, Adrian, Nothing Ever Ends”
