Anne Collins Smith teaches philosophy and classical studies at Stephen F. Austin State University. She has taught, published, and given presentations on philosophy in popular culture, as well as Medieval philosophy. In teaching a college course on the philosophy of Harry Potter, she was delighted to find that students who read 700-plus page books for fun are also willing to read great whacking chunks of Aristotle and other philosophers. She enjoys tantalizing her Intermediate Latin students with selections from Peter Needham’s Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, in which Snape gives an especially impressive demonstration of the use of the subjunctive in indirect questions. It is her opinion that the students at Hogwarts should be learning Latin as well, but so far she has received no response to her application.
Charles Taliaferro is a professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College. He has written or edited eleven books, including Evidence and Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and a collection of essays on love called Love, Love, Love (Cowley Press, 2006), which contains “A Modest Defense of Magic.” In most of his courses that are held in Holland Hall at St. Olaf (which resembles Hogwarts), Taliaferro includes a section on Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Jerry L. Walls is currently senior research fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame and is the author of several books, including Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy (Oxford University Press, 2002) and The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy (Open Court, 2005; coedited with Gregory Bassham). He has also authored several articles on pop culture and philosophy. Somebody evidently put a Muggle Repelling Charm on his lawnmower. Every time he comes near it, he suddenly remembers an urgent appointment and has to dash off.
Jonathan L. Walls, Jerry’s son, is a former musician and an aspiring filmmaker who switched to his current career path after repeated rejections from the Weird Sisters. He will be finishing film school soon, and he is also somewhat of a Potter proselytizer, having led many people to the joys of Rowling’s series.
David Lay Williams is associate professor of philosophy and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He has published articles in History of Political Thought, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Polity, Telos, and Critical Review and is the author of the book Rousseau’s Platonic Enlightenment (Penn State University Press, 2007). Any resemblance of David to Harry Potter is purely coincidental.
THE MARAUDER’S INDEX
ability
Academy
“act-choices,”
Acton, Lord
Adler, Mortimer
afterlife. See also death
agape
Alcibiades
Alexander of Aphrodisias
allegory of the cave
Amortentia
Animagi, identity and
Anscombe, Elizabeth
Apollo (Oedipus)
argument from reason
Aristotle
on destiny
education and
love and
power and
on “second self,”
self-understanding and
truth in fiction and
virtue and
Augustine, Saint
authenticity
authority
Avada Kedavra curse
Ayer, A. J.
Baggett, David
Bagshot, Bathilda
Barfield, Owen
Barton, Benjamin
Battle of Hogwarts
Benedict XVI, Pope
Bentham, Jeremy
Berkeley, George
bias, transformation and
Binns, Professor
Black, Regulus
Black, Sirius
destiny and
identity and
patriotism and
radical feminism and
self-understanding and
soul and
transformation and
virtue and See also Padfoot
Blackmore, Susan
Blast-Ended Skrewts
Booth, Heather
Bradley, F. H.
brain, mind vs.
Bryce, Frank
Buckbeak
bureaucracy, libertarianism and
“care of souls,”
Carrow, Amycus
Cartesian view, of soul. See also Descartes, René
Cattermole, Reginald
Chalmers, David
Chang, Cho
character
children
natural interests of
parenting of See also education
Chocolate Cauldrons
choice
love and
redemption and
self-understanding and
Christianity
love and redemption
moral regeneration and
predeterminism and
on reality
Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
“Cinderfella” (Gallardo-C., Smith)
civil rights
Clark, Andy
class, power and
common good, greater good vs.
communitarianism
compatibilism
Confessions (St. Augustine)
context, truth in fiction and
cosmopolitanism
Crabbe, Vincent
Creevey, Colin
Critias
Crookshanks
Crouch, Barty, Jr.
education and
identity and
Pensieve and
soul and
Crouch, Barty, Sr.
danger, education and
death
moral regeneration and
mortality and search for meaning
virtue and
Death Eaters
identity and
libertarianism and
mortality and
patriotism and
power and
soul and
Delacour, Fleur
Dementors
Descartes, René. See also Cartesian view, of soul
destiny
compatibilists vs. libertarians
prophecy and
self-fulfilling prophecy and
time travel and
determinism
Dewey, John
Diggory, Cedric
Dionysius I
Diotima
discrimination, patriotism and
divine providence
divisiveness, patriotism and
Dobby
Doughty, Terri
Dresang, Eliza
dualism
Dumbledore, Albus
choice and
destiny and
education and
as gay, and truth in fiction
libertarianism and
love and redemption
love potions and
moral regeneration and
mortality and
patriotism and
Pensieve and
power and
radical feminism and
reality and
self-understanding and
soul and
transformation and
virtue and
Dursley, Dudley
Dursley, Petunia
Dursley, Vernon
education
negatives of
progressive approach to
racism and
Elder Wand
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
empiricism
Engel, Susan
“environmental supports,”
Epicureans
eros
ethics
love potions and
patriotism and See also morality; virtue
eudaimonia
Evans, Lily. See Potter, Lily
“examined life,”
experiential memory
“Extended Mind, The” (Clark, Chalmers)
extended mind theory
factual memory
fa
llible prophecy
fantasy, moral regeneration and
Fawkes
Felix Felicis
feminism. See radical feminism
Filch, Argus
Firenze
destiny and
education and
libertarianism and
politics and
“first-wave feminism,”
Fletcher, Mundungus
Flitwick, Filius
Forbidden Forest
Frankfurt, Harry
freedom. See politics
free will
friendship
Fudge, Cornelius
fulfillment
“fuzzy concept,”
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
Gallardo-C., Ximena
Gandhi
Gaunt, Marvolo
Gaunt, Merope
Gaunt, Morfin
gender
love potions and
stereotypes (See also radical feminism)
genre, truth in fiction and
Gertrude the Great, Saint
giggling, radical feminism and
Gladstein, Mimi
Glaucon
Gleeson, Brendan
global conflict, patriotism and
Goldfield, Evi
Goldman, Emma
good vs. evil
radical feminism and
redemption and
Goyle, Gregory
Granger, Hermione
destiny and
education and
identity and
libertarianism and
love potions and
moral regeneration and
patriotism and
Pensieve and
radical feminism and
reality and
self-understanding and
soul and
transformation and
truth in fiction and
greater good, common good vs.
Greyback, Fenrir
Grindelwald, Gellert
power and
self-understanding and
transformation and
truth in fiction and
virtue and
Griphook
Gryffindor House
libertarianism and
patriotism and
Hagrid, Rubeus
education and
libertarianism and
patriotism and
self-understanding and
truth in fiction and
hands-on learning
happiness
Harry Potter and Imagination (Prinzi)
Harry Potter and Philosophy (Baggett, Klein)
“Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy” (Barton)
“Harry Potter’s Girl Trouble” (Schoefer)
Hasker, William
Hegel, G. W. F.
Heidegger, Martin
Heilman, Elizabeth
Hirsch, E. D., Jr.
Hobbes, Thomas
Hogwarts
Battle of Hogwarts
education at
Hogwarts, A History
Houses of, and patriotism See also Gryffindor House; house-elves; Slytherin House
Hokey
Horcruxes
destiny and
love and redemption
moral regeneration and
power and
radical feminism and
soul and
house-elves
education and
libertarianism and
patriotism and
self-understanding and
truth in fiction and
Howe, Michael J. A.
human fulfillment
humanity, soul and
identity
integrity of
memory theory of personal identity
mind-body distinction and
minority identity and truth in fiction
patriotism and
radical feminism and
reason and
self and
self-understanding and
transformation and
illusion. See reality
immaterialist view
Imperius Curse
“inert” knowledge
infallible prophecy
Inklings
integrity, moral regeneration and
intelligence, power and
intentionalist literary theory
“internal-choice,”
invisibility cloak
James, William
Jesus
John the evangelist
Jorkins, Bertha
justice
Kant, Immanuel
education and
mortality and
patriotism and
power and
self-understanding and
Kern, Edmund
Kettleburn, Professor
King’s Cross
Klein, Melanie
Klein, Shawn E.
know-how memory
Kreacher
Krum, Viktor
Laius, King (Oedipus)
laws, libertarianism and
Lestrange, Bellatrix
Letters (Tolkien)
Levine, Arthur E.
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, David
liberal education
liberal feminism
libertarianism
Harry Potter and Imagination (Prinzi)
“Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy” (Barton)
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