Dexter and Philosophy
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Conley, Andrew
consequentialism
Cooper, Rudy. See also Ice Truck Killer; Moser, Brian
Cornell, Drucilla
Criminal Minds
“Crocodile” (episode)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Croft, Lara
CSI
Cullen, Edward
Dahl, Roald
Daily Mail
“The Damage a Man Can Do” (episode)
Dancing with the Stars
Dantes, Edmond (Count of Monte Cristo)
Daredevil
Dark Defender
“The Dark Defender” (episode)
Dark Passenger ; different in novels and TV show
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (novel)
Data
Davidson, Donald
Davis, Jason
Davis, Walter; Death’s Dream Kingdom
Death Wish (movie)
Deb. See Morgan, Debra
decision theory
Deen, Phillip
deontology
Descartes, René
deterrence
Dex. See Morgan, Dexter
“Dex, Lies, and Videotape” (episode)
Dexter (TV show): critical acclaim; disturbing quality; objections to. For episodes, see under title of episode
“Dexter” (episode)
Dexter by Design (novel)
Dexter in the Dark (novel)
Dirty Harry (1971 movie)
“Do You Take Dexter Morgan” (episode)
Doakes, Albert (Doakes’s name in the novels). See Doakes, Sergeant James
Doakes, Sergeant James
Donovan, Mike
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
Douglas, Michael
Downs, Jeremy
Dragnet
Driscoll, Joe
Drummond, Captain Hugh (Bulldog)
Drummond, Mrs Phyllis
Dumas, Alexandre (père)
Dyer, Richard
Early Cuts
Eastwood, Clint
“Easy as Pie” (episode)
Eigen, Michael
Einstein, Albert
Ellis, Bret Easton
Elli, Tracy
emotions
empathy
enkratia
Epright, M. Carmela
The Fable of the Bees
Fairweather, Abrol
The Falcon
Falling Down (movie)
Farrow, Jonathan
“Father Knows Best” (episode)
Figg, Camilla,
“Finding Freebo” (episode)
Firestone, Robert W.
The Flash
Fleming, Ian
Ford, Henry
Foster, Everitt
Foucault, Michel; Discipline and Punish; History of Sexuality
Fowkes, Katherine A.
Fowler, Boyd
Frankfurt, Harry G.; killed by Dexter; On Bullshit
Franklin, Benjamin
Freebo (Fred Bowman)
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Milton
Frost, Andrew
Futurama
free will
Gacy, John Wayne
genes
genocide
“The Getaway” (episode)
Gibbon, Edward
Gibson, William H.
“Go Your Own Way” (episode)
God
Goldner, Rebecca Steiner
Goldstein, Kurt
Gomez, Benny
Gregor, Brian
The Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Greene, Richard
Gruen, Arno: The Insanity of Normality
The Grumbling Hive
Haas, Daniel
Hall, Michael C.
Hammer, Mike
Hantman, Jean
Harrison
Harry’s Code. See Code, Harry’s
Hawkman
Heberle, Renée
Hegel, Georg
Heidegger, Martin
“Hello, Bandit” (episode)
Hercules
Hicks, Roger
Hill, Christine
The Hills
Hobbes, Thomas
Holmes, Eric
Holmes, Sherlock,
Hornung, E.W.; “Gentlemen and Players,”; Mr Justice Raffles
Humane Society
Hume, David
“I Had a Dream” (episode)
Ice Truck Killer . See also Moser, Brian
identity thinking
“An Inconvenient Lie” (episode)
Inglourious Basterds (2009 movie)
“It’s Alive” (episode)
Jack the Ripper
Jameson, J. Jonah
Jaworski, Jamie
“Jennifer’s Leg,”
Jesus Christ
Jewett, Roger
Johnson, Samuel
Jor–El
The Just Men. See Wallace, Edgar
Kane, Bob
Kant, Immanuel
Kent, Clark
Keynesian economics
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kilmer, Val
King, George Washington. See also The Skinner
King Kong (1933 movie)
Kirk, Captain James T.
Kirkland, Ewan
knowledge
Kofman, Sarah
Kohlberg, Lawrence
Kreiser, Lawrence
Kristeva, Julia: abjection; Powers of Horror
Kruger, Officer Zoey
Laden, Osama bin
LaGuerta, Lieutenant Maria
Lara (mother of Superman)
Larsson, Stieg
Lawrence, John Shelton
Lecter, Hannibal
“Left Turn Ahead” (episode)
Lehrer, Jonah
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lermontov, Mikhail: A Hero of Our Time
“Let’s Give the Boy a Hand” (episode)
Let the Right One In (novel and movie)
Lewis, David
Lichtenfeld, Erich
life, meaning of
Lila. See Tournay, Lila
Lindsay, Jeff
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (episode)
“Living the Dream” (episode)
Locke, John
London, Jack
Long, Audrey
“Love American Style” (episode)
Loy, David
luck; constitutive; Dexter’s; moral; resultant; situational
Lundy, Special Agent Frank
MacIntyre, Alasdair; After Virtue
Magnum Force (1973 movie)
Malloy, Daniel P.
Manders, Bunny
Mandeville, Dr. Bernard
The Man-Devil. See Mandeville, Dr. Bernard
Marten, Nathan
Marx, Karl H.
Mary, Nurse
masks
Maslow, Abraham; hierarchy of needs
Mason, Perry
Masuka, Vince
The Matrix (1999 movie)
McAleer, Sean
McNamara, Detective “Mack,”
Mellamphy, Deborah
Meridian, Emmett
Method of Difference
Meursault (first name unknown)
Michaud, Nicolas
Mill, John Stuart
Mitchell, Arthur. See also Trinity Killer
Monique (amputee victim of the Ice Truck Killer)
Monte Cristo, Count of. See Dantes, Edmond
Montessori, Maria
Moore, Alan
moral judgments: based on intuitions
moral development, Three Levels and Six Stages of
morals; rule–based. See also Morgan, Dexter, moral evaluation of; Morgan, Dexter, moral responsibility of
moral responsibility
moral theories
Morgan, Deborah (Deb’s name in the novels). See Morgan, Debra
Morgan, Debra ; hypothetically killed by Dexter
Morga
n, Dexter: childhood trauma of; conception of himself; emotions ; humanity of; impeccable instincts; killing procedure; makes the world better; moral evaluation of; moral responsibility of; psychopath; as old-fashioned punisher; relationship with Harry; and sex; sociopath; standards; superhero; trophies (slides)
Morgan, Doris
Morgan, Harrison. See Harrison
Morgan, Harry
Morgan, Rita. See Bennett, Rita
“Morning Comes” (episode)
Morrison, Toni
Moser, Brian . See also Cooper, Rudy
Moser, Dexter. See also Morgan, Dexter
Moser, Laura
Mr. Freeze
Muir, John Kenneth
Mullins, Alisa
“My Bad” (episode)
Nagel, Thomas
Narcotics Anonymous
Nayar, Pramod
neuroscience
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nozick, Robert
“Our Father” (episode)
Packer, Sharon
Parents Television Council
Parker, Peter
Parker, Uncle Ben
Pascal, Blaise
Pasquale, Esmé
Paul, St.
Pechorin, Grigoriy
Perry, Neil
PETA
Peterson, Carl
Phalaris
Pharisees
Pierce, Lumen Ann
Piero, Mike
Pinocchio
Piven, Jerry S.
Plato
Pollock, Jackson
Pontuso, James F.
“Popping Cherry” (episode)
Prado, Miguel
Prado, Oscar
Prado, Sylvia
psychopaths. See also sociopaths
The Punisher
Quinn, Joseph (Joey)
Raffles, A.J.
Raimi, Sam
Reagan, Ronald Wilson
Reisch, George A.
“Remains to Be Seen” (episode)
Remar, James
“Resistance Is Futile” (episode)
“Return to Sender” (episode)
Ricoeur, Paul
The Riddler
The Ringer
“Road Kill” (episode)
Robin
Robison-Greene, Rachel
Roman soldiers
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
rule-utilitarianism. See also utilitarianism
The Saint (Simon Templar)
The Saint (1997 movie)
Sapper (Cyril McNeile); The Black Gang
Sartre, Jean-Paul; bad faith; existence precedes essence
Saunders, Jane
Scarlet Pimpernel
“See-‘Through” (episode)
“Seeing Red” (episode)
Sensio, Jimmy
serial killers; moral responsibility of; varieties of
Serial Killers—Philosophy for Everyone (book)
The Shadow
“Shrink Wrap” (episode)
Silence of the Lambs (1988 book and 1991 movie)
Simmons, Kara
The Skinner
“Slack Tide” (episode)
slasher movies
Slice of Life (Dexter’s boat)
Slosser, George
Smith, Adam; Theory of the Moral Sentiments; Wealth of Nations
Smith, Warren
sociopaths. See also psychopaths
Socrates
Spider-Man
Spider-Man (2002 movie)
Spider-Man 2 (2004 movie)
Spillane, Mickey
Spock, Mr.
The Star Chamber (1983 movie)
Star Trek
Steele, David Ramsay
Stern, Ruth: For Love of the Father
Stout, Martha: The Sociopath Next Door
the sublime
Summers, Buffy
superheroes; often orphans; as outsiders
Superman
Superman: The Movie (1978 movie)
Superman II (1980 movie)
Taylor, Charles,
Teal, Inspector Eustace
Teresa, Mother
Terms of Endearment
terror management
“That Night a Forest Grew” (episode)
“There’s Something about Harry” (episode)
Tillotson, Johnny
Tournay, Lila
Trinity Killer . See also Mitchell, Arthur
“Truth Be Told” (episode)
Tucci, Tony
“Turning Biminese” (episode)
Twilight (series of novels and movies)
Twitchell, Mark
2012 (movie)
Unabomber
utilitarianism
Vanilla Sky (movie)
vigilantes
Villaraigosa, Antonio
The Virgin Unmask’d
virtue ethics; Aristotle’s; and happiness
“Waiting to Exhale” (episode)
Wallace, Edgar; The Four Just Men; The Three Just Men
Waller, Sara
Wayne, Bruce
westerns
Wilde, Oscar
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Williams, Bernard
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971 movie)
Winter, Timothy F.
Wolf, Ellen
Wonka, Willy
Worth, Sarah E.
1
Erich Lichtenfeld, Actions Speak Louder (Wesleyan University Press, 2007), p. 306.
2
In Matthew Higgins and others, Science Fiction and Organization, Routledge, 2001, p. 181.
3
Ray B. Browne and Lawerence A. Kreiser, eds., Popular Culture Values and the Arts (McFarland, 2009), p. 92.