Free Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers, The by Mark White Page B

Avengers , and the animated TV show The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes —and the Avengers are truly Earth’s mightiest comics, television, and film franchise.
     

Contributors
     
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    Adam Barkman has a PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam and is associate professor of philosophy at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He is the author of C. S. Lewis and Philosophy as a Way of Life , Through Common Things , and Above All Things , and is the coeditor of Manga and Philosophy and The Philosophy of Ang Lee . However, to his kids, Heather (Waspie-Turtle) and Tristan (Hulk-Puppy), he is simply known as Thor-Lion, and this is their song: “Avengers: Assemble! Always, we will fight as one, the battle boo-boo-boo . . .”
     
    Arno Bogaerts is currently finishing his studies in philosophy and ethics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, where he has written several essays focusing on the superhero and its genre. He also writes for the Belgian comic book site Brainfreeze and will contribute a chapter to the upcoming Superman and Philosophy . Convinced that Belgian beer can easily beat the best mead Asgard has to offer, he and his buddies plan to challenge both Thor and Tony Stark to a local drinking contest.
     
    Roy T. Cook is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, a resident fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and an associate fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy–University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic , editor of The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction , and has published numerous academic articles on paradoxes, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and, more recently, the aesthetics of comics. He is also coeditor (with Aaron Meskin) of The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach . Despite the best efforts of artists and writers, his early romance with Jennifer Walters was censored by the Comics Code Authority, and as a result the steamy details will forever remain a secret.
     
    Sarah K. Donovan is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Wagner College in New York City. Her teaching and research interests include feminist, social, moral, and Continental philosophy, and she has coauthored articles for books in the present series on Batman, Watchmen , Iron Man, and Green Lantern. While performing research with the Dark Avengers, she became friends with Lindy Reynolds, but now feels guilty about assuring her that helicopter rides are completely safe.
     
    Andrew Zimmerman Jones is the physics guide at About.com and author of String Theory for Dummies . He lives in central Indiana with his wife and two young sons, occasionally writing essays in august collections such as Heroes and Philosophy and Green Lantern and Philosophy . In his spare time, he searches for Jones Particles, theoretical particles that will shrink your waistline.
     
    Charles Klayman is a term instructor of philosophy at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Illinois. Since Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning rejected his application, he is completing his doctoral studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research interests include classical American philosophy and aesthetics. Despite possessing the ability to befuddle minds, he was denied Avengers membership; apparently, carrying a thick philosophy book is not the same as carrying a mystical hammer or an indestructible shield.
     
    Daniel P. Malloy quit the Avengers in protest after the Scarlet Witch married the Vision, maintaining (against Klayman’s chapter) that walking toasters don’t have the right to marry. There was also a slight dispute with Jarvis, which has since been settled out of court. Since then, Daniel has spent his time as a lecturer in philosophy at Appalachian State University, teaching introductory courses and writing about the