The Good Place: Ethics, Pop Culture, and the Afterlife
On display in Rose Library, September 2018. Selected by Grace Wilson, Kelly Giles, Allison Lyttle,
Hillary Ostermiller, Alyssa Valcourt + Malia Willey
The Good Place is a comedy about trying to be a better person, even in the afterlife.
We’ve gathered materials about the trolley problem, shrimp, ethics in entertainment, cacti, living with robots, Kant, and other topics related to the show.
Everything is fine.
A.I.: Its nature and future by Publication Date: 2016
After Life (DVD) by Publication Date: 1998
Afterlife: A history of life after death by Publication Date: 2016
The Annotated Wizard of Oz by Publication Date: 1973
Bad Language: Are some words better than others? by Publication Date: 2005
Beginning Values Clarification by Publication Date: 1975
The Cactus Family by Publication Date: 2001
Charity Detox: What charity would look like if we cared about results by Publication Date: 2015
Consider the Fork: A history of how we cook and eat by Publication Date: 2012
Creating Healthy Neighborhoods by Publication Date: 2017
Death by Publication Date: 2014
Design by IKEA by Publication Date: 2014
Driving with Plato by Publication Date: 2012
E. G. Barnhill: Florida photographer, adventurer, entrepreneur by Publication Date: 2016
An Encyclopedia of Swearing by Publication Date: 2006
The end all around us: apocalyptic texts and popular culture (ebook) by Publication Date: 2009
Entertaining Judgment by Publication Date: 2015
Ethical Decision Making in Everyday Work Situations by Publication Date: 1990
Forbidden Words: Taboo and the censoring of language by Publication Date: 2006
The Gay Science by Publication Date: 1974
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Publication Date: 1998
Heaven Can Wait (DVD) by Publication Date: 1943
Heaven in the American Imagination by Publication Date: 2011
Heidegger's Being and Time by Publication Date: 2008
Her (Blu-ray / DVD) by Publication Date: 2014
Here comes Mr. Jordan (Blu-ray) by Publication Date: 1942
The Honest Truth about Dishonesty by Publication Date: 2012
How Good People Make Tough Choices by Publication Date: 2003- How to cook shrimp by Publication Date: 1952
Ice Cream by Publication Date: 2013
Ice Cream: A global history by Publication Date: 2011
Immortality by Publication Date: 1991
In Praise of Profanity by Publication Date: 2016
Knowing Right from Wrong by Publication Date: 2013
The Laptop DJ Handbook by Publication Date: 2010
Living with Robots by Publication Date: 2017
Meaning and Mortality in Kierkegaard and Heidegger by Publication Date: 2016
The Measure of All Minds by Publication Date: 2017
Meditations by Publication Date: 2011
Money for the Cause by Publication Date: 2012
Moral Reasons by Publication Date: 1993
More Than a Movie: Ethics in entertainment by Publication Date: 2000
Mortal Questions by Publication Date: 1979
Nicomachean Ethics by Publication Date: 2014
Nicomachean Ethics (ebook) by Publication Date: 2009
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Publication Date: 1955
Nonprofit Fundraising 101 by Publication Date: 2016
Normativity by Publication Date: 2008
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics by Publication Date: 2013
Personality, Identity, and Character by Publication Date: 2009
Practical Philosophy by Publication Date: 1997
Practicing Utopia by Publication Date: 2016
Prophetic Critique and Popular Media by Publication Date: 2013
Slow Light by Publication Date: 2011
The Social Psychology of Morality (ebook) by Publication Date: 2016
The Social Structure of Right and Wrong by Publication Date: 1997
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America by Publication Date: 2006
The Television World of Pushing Daisies: Critical essays on the Bryan Fuller series by Publication Date: 2011
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics by Publication Date: 1996
Transformations of Language in Modern Dystopias by Publication Date: 1997
A Treatise of Human Nature by Publication Date: 2000
The Trolley Problem Mysteries by Publication Date: 2015
Utilitarianism by Publication Date: 2010
Utopia Is Creepy And Other Provocations by Publication Date: 2016
The Utopia Reader by Publication Date: 2017
Veronica Mars (DVD) by Publication Date: 2014
What's Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television (ebook) by Publication Date: 2011
What We Owe to Each Other by Publication Date: 1999
Would You Kill the Fat Man? by Publication Date: 2013
This book list is not meant to be a comprehensive bibliography on the topic of the display. It's a snapshot of selected books/videos in our collection on this topic as of September 2018.