Introduction.
A note to our Suppliers in the US and the UK: Support Philosophy
- it uses lots of paper?.
A Note to Bitter Brits and Confused Americans?.
The Dundies: Some Awards for Making this Book Possible.
Memo 1: Paper Thin Morality.
1. Screws and Nails: Paper Tigers and Moral Monsters in The
Office (US): J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College).
2. Flirting in The Office: What Can Jim and Pam?s Romantic
Antics Teach Us about Moral Philosophy? (US): Mark D. White
(College of Staten Island).
3. Can Michael Ever Learn?: Empathy and the Self-Other Gap (US):
Andrew Terjesen (Rhodes College).
4. Leaving the Dice Alone: Pointlessness and Helplessness at
Wernham-Hogg (UK): Wim Vandekerckhove (Ghent University) and Eva
Tsahuridu (University of Greenwich Business School).
5. The Virtues of Humor: What The Office Can Teach Us About
Aristotle?s Ethics (UK): Sean McAleer (University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire).
Memo 2: Know Thyself!.
6. Pam and Jim on the Make: The Epistemology of Self-Deception
(US): Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick College).
7. What Dwight Doesn?t Know Can?t Hurt Him?Or
Can It?.
Deception and Self-Deception in The Office (US): Randall M.
Jensen (Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa).
8. Authenticity or Happiness? Michael Scott and the Ethics of
Self-Deception (US): Peter Murphy (University of Indianapolis) and
Jonathan Evans (University of Indianapolis).
9. Humiliation in The Office (and at Home) (US): John Elia
(Wilson College).
Memo 3: Funny and not-so-funny Business.
10. Laughter between Distraction and Awakening: Marxist Themes
in The Office (US): Michael Bray (at Southwestern University).
11. Being-in-The Office: Sartre, the Look, and the Viewer (US):
Matthew Meyer (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) and Greg
Schneider (University of Minnesota).
12. A Boy that Swims Faster than a Shark: Jean Baudrillard
Visits The Office (UK): Russell Manning (Yarra Valley Grammar,
Melbourne).
Memo 4: Mind Your Business!.
13. Stakeholders vs. Stockholders in the American Office (US):
Rory E. Kraft, Jr. (York College of Pennsylvania).
14. Attacking with the North: Affirmative Action and The Office
(US): David Kyle Johnson (King?s College in
Wilkes-Barre).
15. Darkies, Dwarves, and Benders: Political (In)Correctness in
The Office (UK): Thomas Nys (Utrecht University).
16. The Hostile Office: Michael as a Sexual Harasser (US): Keith
Dromm (Northwestern State University).
17. The Obscene Watermark: Corporate Responsibility at
Dunder-Mifflin (US): David Kyle Johnson (King?s College in
Wilkes-Barre).
Memo 5: Philosophy at the water-cooler?.
18. For L?Amour: Love and Friendship in The Office (US):
Robert Arp (University at Buffalo) and Jamie Watson (Florida State
University).
19. Look at the Ears! The Problem of Natural Kinds (UK): Thomas
Nys (Utrecht University).
20. Gareth Keenan Investigates Paraconsistent Logic: The Case of
the Missing Tim and the Redundancy Paradox (UK): Morgan Luck
(Charles Sturt University).
21. Being Your Self in The Office (US): Rick Mayock (West Los
Angeles College).
22. Michael Scott is Going to Die (US): Meg Lonergan (Hartwick
College) and J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College).
Appendix A, From Our Office to Yours: The University of Scranton
and The Office.
Appendix B, Question: What do you need to know about Dwight K.
Schrute?.
Corporate Filing System (Index).
Employees (Notes on Contributors)
