WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Watchmen and Philosophy.

Acknowledgments: "It's My Own Invention"- Yeah, Right! ix

Introduction: You're Late for a Very Important Date 1

Part One "Wake Up, Alice Dear"

1 Unruly Alice: A Feminist View of Some Adventures in Wonderland 7
Megan S. Lloyd

2 Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow, but Never Jam Today: On Procrastination, Hiking, and the SpiceGirls? 19
Mark D. White

3 Nuclear Strategists in Wonderland 33
Ron Hirschbein

4 "You're Nothing but a Pack of Cards!": Alice Doesn't Have a Social Contract 47
Dennis Knepp

Part Two "That's Logic"

5 "Six Impossible Things before Breakfast" 61
George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald

6 Reasoning Down the Rabbit-Hole: Logical Lessons in Wonderland 79
David S. Brown

7 Three Ways of Getting It Wrong: Induction in Wonderland 93
Brendan Shea

8 Is There Such a Thing as a Language? 107
Daniel Whiting

Part Three "We're All Mad Here"

9 Alice, Perception, and Reality: Jell-O Mistaken for Stones 125
Robert Arp

10 How Deep Does the Rabbit-Hole Go?: Drugs and Dreams, Perception and Reality 137
Scott F. Parker

11 Perspectivism and Tragedy: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Alice's Adventure 153
Rick Mayock

12 Wishing It Were Some Other Time: The Temporal Passage of Alice 167
Mark W. Westmoreland

Part Four "Who in the World Am I?"

13 Serious Nonsense 183
Charles Taliaferro and Elizabeth Olson

14 "Memory and Muchness": Alice and the Philosophy of Memory 197
Tyler Shores

Contributors: Pawns and Pieces: As Arranged before Commencement of Game 213

Index: "Down, Down, Down": What You Will Find at the Bottom 219