| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The Dream Team xi The Editor’s Totem: An Elegant Solution for Keeping Track of Reality 1 Introduction: Plato’s Academy Award 11 PART ONE WAS MAL RIGHT? WAS IT ALL JUST A DREAM?: MAKING SENSE OF INCEPTION 1 Was It All a Dream?: Why Nolan’s Answer Doesn’t Matter 17 Ruth Tallman 2 Let Me Put My Thoughts in You: It Was All Just a Dream 31 Jason Southworth 3 Even If It Is a Dream, We Should Still Care 46 Andrew Terjesen 4 The Unavoidable Dream Problem 62 James T. M. Miller PART TWO IS THE TOP STILL SPINNING?: TACKLING THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION 5 The Parable of the Spinning Top: Skepticism, Angst, and Cobb’s Choice 77 Katherine Tullmann 6 Reality Doesn’t Really Matter 92 Dan Weijers 7 Why Care whether the Top Keeps Spinning? 108 Bart Engelen PART THREE IS INCEPTION POSSIBLE?: THE METAPHYSICS, ETHICS, AND MECHANICS OF INCEPTING 8 How to Hijack a Mind: Inception and the Ethics of Heist Films 125 Daniel P. Malloy 9 Inception, Teaching, and Hypnosis: The Ethics of Idea-Giving 140 Adam Barkman 10 Inception and Free Will: Are They Compatible? 152 John R. Fitzpatrick and David Kyle Johnson 11 Honor and Redemption in Corporate Espionage 166 Albert J. Chan PART FOUR WHAT IS DREAMING?: EXPLORING THE NATURE OF (SHARED) DREAMS (UPON DREAMS) 12 Shared Dreaming and Extended Minds 177 Ken Marable 13 Morally Responsible Dreaming: Your Mind Is the Scene of the Crime 187 Lance Belluomini 14 Dream Time: Inception and the Philosophy of Time 199 Michael J. Sigrist 15 Dreams and Possible Worlds: Inception and the Metaphysics of Modality 215 Charles Joshua Horn 16 Do Our Dreams Occur While We Sleep? 231 Keith Dromm PART FIVE SHOULD I TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH?: RELIGIOUS THEMES IN INCEPTION 17 Taking a Leap of Faith: A How-to Guide 249 David Kyle Johnson 18 Limbo, Utopia, and the Paradox of Idyllic Hope 265 Clint Jones 19 Unlocking the Vault of the Mind: Inception and Asian Philosophy 276 Scott Daniel Dunbar PART SIX WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?: FINDING THE HIDDEN LESSONS OF INCEPTION 20 Mal-Placed Regret 295 Kimberly Blessing 21 “You’re Just a Shade”: Knowing Others, and Yourself 310 Daniel Forbes 22 Paradox, Dreams, and Strange Loops in Inception 326 Tyler Shores APPENDIX : A Safe Full of Secrets: Hidden Gems You May Have Missed 343 CONTRIBUTORS: The Architects 363 I NDEX: The PASIV (Plenary Alphabetized Subject Index for This Volume) Device 371 |
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