Vincent and the Doctor
The Lodger
The Pandorica Opens
The Big Bang
THE DOCTOR’S COMPANIONS
FIRST DOCTOR
Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford)
Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill)
Ian Chesterton (William Russell)
Vicki (Maureen O’Brien)
Steven Taylor (Peter Purves)
Katarina (Adrienne Hill)
Sara Kingdom (Jean Marsh)
Dorothea “Dodo” Caplet (Jackie Lane)
Polly (Anneke Wills)
Ben Jackson (Michael Craze)
SECOND DOCTOR
Polly
Ben Jackson
Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines)
Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling)
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney)
Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury)
THIRD DOCTOR
Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Shaw (Caroline John)
Josephine “Jo” Grant (Katy Manning)
Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen)
FOURTH DOCTOR
Sarah Jane Smith
Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter)
Leela (Louise Jameson)
K-9 Mark I (voice of John Leeson)
K-9 Mark II (voice of John Leeson)
Romana I (Mary Tamm)
Romana II (Lalla Ward)
Adric (Matthew Waterhouse)
Nyssa (Sara Sutton)
Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding)
FIFTH DOCTOR
Adric
Nyssa
Tegan Jovanka
Vislor Turlough (Mark Strickson)
Kamelion (voice of Gerald Flood)
Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown (Nicola
Bryant)
SIXTH DOCTOR
Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown
Melanie “Mel” Bush (Bonnie
Langford)
SEVENTH DOCTOR
Melanie “Mel” Bush
Ace (Sophie Aldred)
EIGHTH DOCTOR
Dr. Grace Holloway (Daphne
Ashbrook)
NINTH DOCTOR
Rose Tyler (Billie Piper)
Adam Mitchell (Bruno Langley)
Captain Jack Harkness (John
Barrowman)
TENTH DOCTOR
Rose Tyler
Captain Jack Harkness
Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke)
Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman)
Donna Noble (Catherine Tate)
Astrid Peth (Kylie Minogue)
Jackson Lake (David Morrissey)
Rosita Farisi (Velile Tshabalala)
Lady Christina de Souza (Michelle
Ryan)
Adelaide Brooke (Lindsay Duncan)
Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins)
ELEVENTH DOCTOR
Amy Pond (Karen Gillan)
River Song (Alex Kingston)
Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill)
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The High Council of Gallifrey
LAURA GEUY AKERS has been a fan of the Doctor and his companions since the early 1980s. She especially loved the playful dynamics of the relationship between Fourth Doctor and the second Romana. She owns a vinyl ‘45’ of the Doctor Who theme music but seldom gets to hear it. Ms. Akers is a health behavior researcher at Oregon Research Institute, while working to finish her PhD in social and personality psychology at the University of Oregon. Her academic work focuses on the psychology of narratives, worldviews, values, and the imagination. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her horticulturist husband, their younger son, an opinionated cat, and a lively golden retriever. Her previous philosophical publication was on empathy and ethics in human-wasp relationships.
ROMAN ALTSHULER’s atoms have recently finished a dissertation on moral responsibility at SUNY Stony Brook, a project from which they sought constant diversions. Upon discovering an obscure show titled Doctor Who on BBC America, Dr. Altshuler immediately saw the possibilities for procrastination by consuming all four seasons. Having reached some tentative conclusions about the show, he settled on watching the previous twenty-seven seasons as the only reasonable means of confirming them. Apart from being glued to his TARDIS console, Roman spends his time teaching philosophy, looking for free will under rocks, and studying the native fauna of Brooklyn.
NIALL BARR first peeked out from behind the sofa in 1969, at the age of six, to watch “The War Games,” Patrick Troughton’s last story as the Doctor. From then on he was hooked, and throughout the tenures of the next five Doctors, Niall spent his Sunday afternoons in front of the television, though never far from the safety of the sofa. Inspired by “Time Flight,” Niall went on to study Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, but like the Doctor, he likes to cover many areas. On the way to his current post at the Teaching and Learning Centre, he worked in diverse fields including medical instrumentation, arthropod biomechanics, and information technology.
ALEXANDER BERTLAND was forced by his mother to watch “The Pyramids of Mars” while still in middle school. While struggling to fit in at high school, both among the in-crowd and friends who preferred Star Trek, his family could only relate to each other through trips to Doctor Who conventions in center-city Philadelphia. When it came time to choose a college, Bertland chose the University of Scranton, largely because Scranton’s PBS station showed Doctor Who most reliably. It was in the pre-Office Scranton where he became interested in the Philosophy of Myth through the work of Giambattista Vico. He has published a number of articles on Vico in New Vico Studies and has written the entry on Vico in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He has also worked on Business Ethics and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He’s currently the chair of the Philosophy Department of Niagara University, and is jealous of the new generation of people who can download Doctor Who from England instantly rather than waiting for years for it to be picked up by public television.
ROBIN BUNCE is Director of Studies for Politics at Homerton College, Cambridge, and a Bye Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, also in Cambridge. At the age of five, he met Tom Baker at BBC TV center during the recording of the “Androids of Tara.” Following this meeting, which involved an exchange of jelly babies, he went on to gain a twenty-foot long stripy scarf and a PhD, which means he can now legitimately call himself ‘Doctor’.
CLIVE CAZEAUX is Reader in the Philosophy of Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. He is a Pertwee man: a fan of Doctor Who ever since the Daleks and the Ogrons materialized in “Day of the Daleks,” although he has some recollection of Patrick Troughton being chased by Ice Warriors. He writes on the various ways in which metaphor and imagery inform thought, and is currently working on the philosophy of art-science collaboration. He lives in the hope that Paul McGann might return one day in a “past Doctors” special, and firmly believes that the “Tenth Planet” Cybermen were the best, but that’s another story.
KEN CURRY is an associate professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi. He was trained first as a microbiologist and then as a mycologist and botanist, but practices science on a broad basis, pursuing research in addition to his immediate area of expertise through collaborations in geology, medical research, zoology, biochemistry, and polymer science. Will Durant’s “Story of Philosophy” stirred his philosophical interest as a young man. Durant’s account of Arthur Schopenhauer gave him a life-long interest in pessimistic philosophy. Ken was drawn into science as a boy reading adventure books about scientists and watching nature and science fiction television shows. Mr. Spock from Star Trek was particularly influential, and Doctor Who also captured his imagination. Ken identifies most strongly with the Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee. His philosophical interests are complemented by interests in B
ritish literature, poetry, and plays written during or before the nineteenth century, and in European history from ancient Greece to the Great War. He enjoys pre-twentieth century concert music and opera, and he is particularly fond of early church music.
PAUL DAWSON stumbled across the threshold, blinded momentarily as his eyes adjusted to the interior lighting. “A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard,” he cried, his senses reeling, “it can go anywhere in time and space?” “Pint of the usual, is it?” said the barman, not looking up from his newspaper. “Who’s the nutter?” a drinker asked. “Oh, don’t mind him. That’s just Paul Dawson—who, by the way, teaches philosophy in London and plays jazz guitar on the side.” Time stopped, briefly. “Doctor Who fan as well, I s’pose?” Slowly, silently, like a sage, the barman nodded, his weary gaze soaking into the faded pub carpet, its saddest stain.
KEVIN S. DECKER will be teaching normative and applied ethics, American and Continental Philosophy, and philosophy of pop culture at Eastern Washington University. He very soon will have co-edited Star Wars and Philosophy (2005, with Jason T. Eberl), Star Trek and Philosophy (2008, with Jason T. Eberl), and Terminator and Philosophy (2009, with Richard Brown). He will have had work published on philosophical themes in James Bond, The Colbert Report, and the films of Stanley Kubrick, and on teaching Star Trek as philosophy in Teaching Philosophy. He has met/will meet himself in seven of his previous and future incarnations, and as a result has real trouble with tenses.
RUTH DELLER is an associate lecturer and doctoral candidate at Sheffield Hallam University. Her doctoral thesis looks at portrayals of religion and spirituality on British television. Ruth’s other fields of expertise include the sociology and philosophy of religion, internet communication and communities, media representation of minorities, and discussing the merits of reality show contestants on Twitter. Because she got into Doctor Who in the mid-1980s, her Doctors are Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. Some people see this as a reason to pity her, but she quite likes their Technicolor zaniness.
WILLIAM EATON, while making extensive repairs to his own TARDIS, patiently works as the Assistant Professor of Modern Philosophy at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of Boyle on Fire: The Mechanical Revolution in Scientific Explanation (2005) and teaches Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, and the History and Philosophy of Science. Although he has saved the Earth from total destruction on several occasions, he is very modest and prefers not to talk about it.
PETER A. FRENCH is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. He was the Cole Chair in Ethics, Director of the Ethics Center, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy of the University of South Florida. He has a national reputation in ethical and legal theory and in collective and corporate responsibility, as well as in criminal liability. He’s the author of nineteen books including The Virtues of Vengeance ; Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns; Ethics and College Sports; Responsibility Matters. His newest book, War and Moral Dissonance, is forthcoming. Dr. French is a senior editor of Midwest Studies in Philosophy, and he has published scores of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals. And yes, he’s the Time Lord of philosophy.
PHILIP GOFF spent most of his childhood trying to build a time machine. He sadly never succeeded in this, and decided to recuperate losses by becoming a philosopher. After his PhD at the University of Reading, Philip spent four months working as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University, and then two years lecturing at the University of Birmingham. He’s currently engaged in post doctoral research as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council project on ‘Phenomenal Qualities’ at the University of Hertfordshire (http://phenomenalqualities.wordpress.com). Philip is mainly interested in the relationship between conscious experience and processes in the brain, arguing that brain science cannot explain conscious thought and feeling. Philip is a panpsychist, which means he thinks that everything, including the book in front of you, has conscious experience. This may sound mad, but if you give Philip an hour or two (and buy him a pint or two of Black Sheep) there is a good chance he can persuade you to become a panpsychist too. Philip’s office contains a TARDIS tea caddy and an inflatable Dalek. It also had a ‘Police Public Call Box’ sticker on the door, but this was removed by the Powers That Be.
BONNIE GREEN is currently completing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Exeter. Prior to this she was a research assistant on the BioethicsBytes project within the GENIE Cetl at the University of Leicester. Within this role she undertook research aimed at drawing out some of the bioethical, social and philosophical issues raised by popular media portrayal of advances in biomedical science and technology. Her background is in the sociology and philosophy of science and technology, and she also possesses an MSc in Social Research Methods and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
MICHAEL HAND is a philosopher of education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester and is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford. His first behind-the-sofa Dalek encounter occurred in 1974, at the end of the Jon Pertwee era, but it was Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor who really captured his childhood imagination. There ensued a decade of feverish Saturday-night excitement, ardent hero-worship and total immersion in the Whoniverse, until the spell was broken in the late 1980s by the cruel double-whammy of adulthood and Sylvester McCoy. Still a fan of the show but no longer in its thrall, Michael these days spends his free time tinkering with his robotic dog and going on excursions with his three children, Tegan, Nyssa, and Adric.
RICHARD HANLEY is in the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware. He’s written extensively on popular and science fiction, including Is Data Human? The Metaphysics of Star Trek (1997) and South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer and More Penetrating (2007). He teaches a course on time travel, and it’s probably Doctor Who’s fault. He writes and records philosophy music as Gourmet Rapport, and that’s not anybody else’s fault.
SIMON HEWITT is a PhD student at Birkbeck College in the University of London. When he isn’t busy with LINDA activities, he spends his time working on metaphysics, logic and the philosophy of mathematics. And running. Seriously, there is an outrageous amount of running involved.
SARAH HONEYCHURCH grew up in a small village with no color television. At the age of nine she first saw Doctor Who in color and was both horrified and fascinated by the Doctor’s involvement with technicolor aliens. How was it, she wondered, that a Time Lord could feel compassion towards such creatures? An interest in questions such as this led to Sarah studying Philosophy at the University of Southampton, graduating with a BA and an MA in Philosophy. She’s currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, writing a thesis on human rights.
DAVID KYLE JOHNSON is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His specializations include philosophy of religion, logic, and metaphysics. He has written extensively on the interaction between philosophy and popular culture, including a book on NBC’s Heroes, and chapters on South Park, Family Guy, The Office, Battlestar Galactica, Quentin Tarantino, Johnny Cash, Batman, Stephen Colbert, The Onion, and Christmas. He also regularly teaches a philosophy class on Pop Culture (the last one focused on Star Trek). Kyle can proudly say that he has watched every episode of Doctor Who, including the old black-and-whites (that have not been lost)—although sometimes it wasn’t easy. After much consideration, he concluded that he best identifies with the Third Doctor; his love of science and hatred of superstition is needed in this world—although Yana (the Master’s human incarnation) and his scatterbrained hopes for a utopia make him a close second.
GREGORY KALYNIUK in part blames classic Doctor Who episodes, which obsessed him when he was little, for wa
rping his then impressionable mind enough to later want to take up the higher calling of Philosophy and thinks that the new Doctor Who series should go back to that grand old transcendental style so that future generations of young viewers can undergo a similar sort of educational experience. He is, at the present moment, completing his PhD in Cultural Studies at Trent University, but would gladly accept a modest salary from the BBC to work as an Ideas Man for Doctor Who in the near future.
COURTLAND LEWIS’s earliest memories are of watching Doctor Who at his grandfather’s house, and of having his brother try to explain regeneration to him after Tom Baker became Peter Davison. Such experiences created a sense of wonder that culminated in a love of philosophy, history, and sci-fi that continues to dominate his life. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee, where he studies Social and Political philosophy and Ethics. He has contributed essays to Mr. Monk and Philosophy: The Curious Case of the Defective Detective (2010) and Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who (2010). Courtland is the president of Rocky Top Doctor Who fan club and a member of KINDA (Knoxville Investigative ’N Detective Agency), with his smashing wife Jenny and friend Dale. And even though he has a deep affinity for the Cybermen, he would like to give special thanks to God, Jenny, his Mom, Paula, friends, family, and all of those involved (past, present, and future) with the Doctor Who universe, especially Tom Baker and Peter Davison for infectiously capturing his imagination, and never letting it go!
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