Abstract

Part I : The metaphysics of spoilers. A brief history of spoilers -- What are spoilers? -- Things that can never be spoiled -- What else can be spoiled? -- Vagueness and spoilers -- Part II : The ethics of spoilers. Is it bad to spoil? -- The badness of spoiling -- When is it wrong to spoil? -- When you should spoil -- The timing of spoilers -- The ethics of spoiler alerts -- Part III: The pragmatics of spoilers. Paradoxes of spoiling -- Spoiling remakes and some other tricky cases -- Are our reactions to spoilers justified? -- Culture, relativism, and spoilers -- What to do when you encounter someone who spoils.