The first unauthorized look at the philosophy behind Heroes, one of TV's most popular shows

When ordinary individuals from around the world inexplicably develop superhuman abilities, they question who they are, struggle to cope with new responsibilities, and decide whether to use their new power for good or for evil. Every episode of Tim Kring's hit TV show Heroes is a philosophical quandary. Heroes and Philosophy is the first book to analyze how philosophy makes this show so compelling. It lets you examine questions crucial to our existence as thinking,...

Encompassing political, social, and cultural issues, this primary source reader allows students to hear the voices of the past, giving a richer understanding of American society since 1945.

• Comprises over 50 documents, which incorporate political, social, and cultural history and encompass the viewpoints of ordinary people as well a variety of leaders
  
• An extended introduction explains to students how to think and work like historians by using primary sources
  
• Includes both written texts and photographs
  
• Headnotes contextualize the...

Do our thoughts and claims about the world give us rational access to the way the world really is? Can subjective experience ever provide a basis for grasping objec-tive truth? These perennial philosophical questions reach to the heart of every human endeavor, from education to science to everyday, successful practice. De-spite the intuitive and nearly universal appeal of realism, influential thinkers from many fields - including educational theory, psychology, cybernetics, literary criti-cism, biology, and physics - have long followed the skeptics in denying knowers any kind of reliable...

Do our thoughts and claims about the world give us rational access to the way the world really is? Can subjective experience ever provide a basis for grasping objec-tive truth? These perennial philosophical questions reach to the heart of every human endeavor, from education to science to everyday, successful practice. De-spite the intuitive and nearly universal appeal of realism, influential thinkers from many fields - including educational theory, psychology, cybernetics, literary criti-cism, biology, and physics - have long followed the skeptics in denying knowers any kind of reliable...