The Good Place and Philosophy

<p><b>Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC’s <i>The Good Place</i>, guided by academic experts including the show’s philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur</b> </p> <ul> <li>Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical concepts, questions, and fundamental ethical dilemmas at the heart of the thoughtful and ambitious NBC sitcom <i>The Good Place</i></li> <li>Navigates the murky waters of moral philosophy in more conceptual depth to call into question what Chidi’s ethics lessons—and the show—get right about learning to be a good person</li> <li>Features contributions from <i>The Good Place</i>’s philosophical consultants, Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and introduced by the show’s creator and showrunner Michael Schur (<i>Parks and Recreation</i>, <i>The Office</i>)</li> <li>Engages classic philosophical questions, including the clash between utilitarianism and deontological ethics in the “Trolley Problem,” Kant’s categorical imperative, Sartre’s nihilism, and T.M Scanlon’s contractualism</li> <li>Explores themes such as death, love, moral heroism, free will, responsibility, artificial intelligence, fatalism, skepticism, virtue ethics, perception, and the nature of autonomy in the surreal heaven-like afterlife of the Good Place</li> <li>Led by Kimberly S. Engels, co-editor of <i>Westworld and Philosophy </i></li> </ul> <p> </p>