More Doctor Who and Philosophy: Regeneration Time (Popular Culture and Philosophy Book 93)

More Doctor Who and Philosophy is a completely new collection of chapters, additional to Doctor Who and Philosophy (2010) by the same editors. Since that first Doctor Who and Philosophy , much has happened in the Whoniverse: a new and controversial regeneration of the Doctor, multiple new companions, a few creepy new enemies of both the Doctor and planet Earth. And the show's fiftieth anniversary! We've learned some astounding new things from the ever-developing story: that the Doctor's number one rule is to lie, that he claims to have forgotten his role in the mass extermination of the Time Lords and the Daleks, that the Daleks do have a concept of divine beauty (divine hatred, of course), and that Daleks may become insane (didn't we assume they already were?) Oh, and the cult of the Doctor keeps growing worldwide, with more cultish fans in the US, more and bigger Who conventions, more viewers of all ages, and more serious treatment by scholars from many disciplines. New questions have been raised and new questioners have come along, so there are plenty of new topics for philosophical scrutiny. Is the “impossible" girl really impossible? Is there anything wrong with an inter-species lesbian relationship (the kids weren't quite ready for that in 1963, but no one blinks an eye in 2015)? Can it really be right for the Doctor to lie and to selectively forget? We even have two authors who have figured out how to build a TARDIS—instructions included! (Wait, there's a catch, no . . . ?) And then there's that old question that just won't go away: why does the Doctor always regenerate as a male, and is that ever going to change? An added feature of this awesome new volume is that the editors have reached out to insiders of Who fandom, people who run hugely successful Who conventions, play in Who-inspired bands, and run wildly popular podcasts and websites, to share their privileged insights into why the Doctor is so philosophically deep. No more spoilers. It's time for the truly thoughtful travelers in both time and space to rev up the TARDIS once more. . . . Allons-y, Alonzo ! Contents Once More into the Vortex | Courtland Lewis and Paula Smithka SERIAL 1: The Real Never-Ending Story | R. Alan Siler: Time Lord Presiding Magnetic North 1. A Good Man Goes to War | Deborah Pless 2. How Time Lords Invented TV | Colin Dray 3. The Mystical Alchemy of "Midnight" | Katherine Sas 4. How Possible Is the Impossible GIrl? Donna Marie Smith 5. Every Lonely Monster Needs a Companion | Christopher Gadsden SERIAL 2: Mind-Bending Impossibility-Shattering Jammie Dodgers | Dr. Scott Viguie (a.k.a. Doctoer Geek): Time Lord Presiding You're Fantastic! 6. Weeping Angels and Many Worlds | Peter A. Sutton 7. What the Doctor Can and Can't Change | Audrey Delamont 8. Could the Doctor Have Avoided Trenzalore? Massimo Pigliucci 9. How the Doctor Knows | Paula Smithka 10. One Good, Solid Hope-the Impossible Girl | Charlene Elsby and Rob Luzecky 11. What the Souffle Girl Could Teach Descartes | Hjordis Becker-Lindenthal 12. How to Build a TARDIS | Doctor Benjamin K. Tippett and Doctor David Tsang SERIAL 3: Values in the Time Vortex | Ken Spivey: Time Lord Presiding The Doctor Who Masculine ROmantic Ideal 13. Should the Doctor Eat His Companions? Greg Littmann 14. The Doctor's Desire for Human Suffering | Angel M. Cooper 15. The Way of the Doctor Is Deception | Michael Dodge 16. Divine Hatred-Dalek Beauty | Cole Bowman 17. The Friends of a Time Lord | Greg Littmann 18. Sex for Dummies, Humans, and Time Lords | Courtland Lewis 19. The Doctor Is a (Wo)Man! Nathan Kellen Serial 4: Gallifrey Falls No More | Martin Stone Hennessee: Time Lord Presiding Terrifying, and Mad, and Bloody Brilliant 20. The Doctor Lies | Kevin McCain 21. Forgetting Is the Human Superpower | Jessica Seymour 22. The Mnemotechnics of Amy Pond | A.G. Holdier 23. Failing and Forgiving in the Name of the Doctor | Matthew A. Hoffman 24. Who's Duty to Whom? Paul Dawson 25. Meeting Up with Yourself | J.J. Sylvia IV and Heath Stevens 26. Time Lords Are Us | Stephen Felder More Matrix of Time-Lord Bibliographic Sources The Second Great Gallifreyan High Council Higher-Order Logical Index for the Cyberman and Dalek in All of Us