True Detective and Philosophy

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New York: Wiley (2017)
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Investigating the trail of philosophical leads in HBO’s chilling True Detective series, an elite team of philosophers examine far-reaching riddles including human pessimism, Rust’s anti-natalism, the problem of evil, and the ‘flat circle’.

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Why Life Rather than Death?  (pages 1–10)Sandra Shapshay
Grounding Carcosa.  (pages 11–21)Christopher Mountenay
Hart and Cohle.  (pages 22–30)Joshua Foa Dienstag
Loving Rust's Pessimism.  (pages 31–41)Rick Elmore
Rust's Anti‐natalism.  (pages 42–51)Chris Byron
Where Is the Cruelty in True Detective?  (pages 53–64)G. Randolph Mayes
Nevermind.  (pages 65–75)Luke Howie
Naturalism, Evil, and the Moral Monster.  (pages 76–86)Peter Brian Barry
But I Do Have a Sense of Justice.  (pages 87–96)Beau Mullen
A Dream Inside a Locked Room.  (pages 97–107)Evan Thompson
I Am Not Who I Used to Be, But Am I Me?  (pages 108–119)Andrew M. Winters
The Light Is Winning.  (pages 120–131)Sarah K. Donovan
The Tragic Misstep.  (pages 132–142)Daniel P. Malloy
The Tragedy of True Detective Season Two.  (pages 143–157)Alison Horbury
The Noir Detective and the City.  (pages 158–168)Chuck Ward
Cohle and Oedipus.  (pages 169–176)Daniel Tutt
Time Is a Flat Circle.  (pages 177–185)Lawrence J. Hatab
Eternal Recurrence and the Philosophy of the “Flat Circle”.  (pages 186–195)Paul A. DiGeorgio

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