John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (co-edited with Jane Dryden)
PART ONE WILL AND EMOTION: THE PHILOSOPHICAL SPECTRUM
- 1 The Blackest Night for Aristotle’s Account of Emotions (Jason Southworth)
- 2 Flexing the Mental Muscle: Green Lanterns and the Nature of Willpower (Mark D. White)
- 3 Women Are from Zamaron, Men Are from Oa (Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas P. Richardson)
PART TWO EMERALD ETHICS: IT’S NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE
- 4 Will They Let Just Anybody Join?: Testing for Moral Judgment in the Green Lantern Corps (Andrew Terjesen)
- 5 The Greatest Green Lantern: Aesthetic Admiration and the Praiseworthy Hero (Jane Dryden)
- 6 There Should Be No Forgiveness for Hal Jordan (Nicolas Michaud)
- 7 Morality, Atonement, and Guilt: Hal Jordan’s Shifting Motivations (Joseph J. Darowski)
PART THREE I’M WITH GREEN LANTERN: FRIENDS AND RELATIONSHIPS
- 8 Hard-Traveling Ethics: Moral Rationalism Versus Moral Sentimentalism (Andrew Terjesen)
- 9 “I Despise Messiness”: The Plato-Aristotle Debate in the Troubled Friendship of Green Lantern and Green Arrow (Brett Chandler Patterson)
- 10 Can’t Live with ’Em, Can’t Live without ’Em: Green Lantern, Relationships, and Autonomy (Jane Dryden)
PART FOUR WITH THIS RING, I THEE SWEAR: POWER, DUTY, AND LAW
- 11 The Oaths of Soranik Natu: Can a Doctor Be a Green Lantern? (Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth)
- 12 Crying for Justice: Retributivism for Those Who Worship Evil’s Might (Mark D. White)
- 13 Hate Crimes as Terrorism in Brother’s Keeper (Ron Novy)
- 14 The Ring of Gyges, the Ring of the Green Lantern, and the Temptation of Power (Adam Barkman)
PART FIVE DON’T TELL KRONA: METAPHYSICS, MIND, AND TIME
- 15 All for One and One for All: Mogo, the Collective, and Biological Unity (Leonard Finkelman)
- 16 Green Mind: The Book of Oa, the Lantern Corps, and Peirce’s Theory of Communal Mind (Paul R. Jaissle)
- 17 Shedding an Emerald Light on Destiny: The Problems with Time Travel (Amy Kind)
PART SIX CAN GREEN LANTERN MAKE A BOXING GLOVE HE CAN’T LIFT? POWERS AND LIMITATIONS
- 18 Another Boxing Glove?: Green Lantern and the Limits of Imagination (Daniel P. Malloy)
- 19 “Beware My Power”: Leibniz and Green Lantern on God, Omnipotence, and Evil (Carsten Fogh Nielsen)
- 20 Magic and Science in the Green Lantern Mythos: Clarke’s Law, the Starheart, and Emotional Energy (Andrew Zimmerman Jones)
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MEDIA
- The Globe and Mail, "The moral power of Green Lantern," op-ed by Jane Dryden and Mark D. White, June 22, 2011
- Hero Complex (Los Angeles Times blog), "'Green Lantern and Philosophy': Heroic Talk and the Ring of Truth?", by Jevon Phillips, June 8, 2011
- UT Daily Beacon, "Philosophers Explore 'Green Lantern' Ethics," by Robby O'Daniel, June 10, 2011
- Jane Dryden's chapter "The Greatest Green Lantern: Aesthetic Admiration and the Praiseworthy Hero" was excerpted in The Philosophers' Magazine, issue 53, 2nd quarter 2011, pp. 96-99.
