CFP: The Good Wife and Philosophy

Edited by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Robert Arp

1. Submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to:[email protected]
2. Abstracts due: June 15, 2012
3. Notification of accepted abstracts: July 1, 2012
4. First drafts due: September 15, 2012 (flexible)
5. 10 to 12-paged papers are written in a conversational style for a lay audience (this definitely ain’t no JPhil, Mind, or Nous publication)

Any relevant topic considered, but here are some possibilities:

• Feminism, Alicia the good wife, and Alicia the litigator
• The good wife, the good husband, sexuality, gender, and societal roles
• Peter, cheating, sexual addiction, and the male psyche
• Alicia, accepting cheating, loyalty, and the female psyche
• Sexual justice and politics in the law
• The use of logical fallacies to influence or manipulate beliefs in the courtroom
• Memory, testimony, and other forms of evidence
• What is legal vs. what is moral
• Crime scenes and the relationship between deduction, induction, and abduction
• History and rationale for a jury
• Law and game theory in The Good Wife
• Authenticity and identity in The Good Wife
• History and rationale for swearing on a Bible
• The nature and types of law
• The nature and types of justice
• Right to privacy and violations of that right in The Good Wife
• The elements of an action (motive, execution, etc.) and corresponding punishment
• Pro and con arguments for capital punishment
• Persons, rights, and privileges
• Diane and the gun control issue
• Character formation, virtue ethics, and characters in The Good Wife
• Types of love and/or friendship in The Good Wife
• An analysis of the nature of murder vs. other forms of killing
• Deontological rights-based vs. utilitarian common-good-based themes in The Good Wife
• The moral perspectives of the various characters in The Good Wife
• “Heart” and care for the uninsured
• “Infamy,” psychological coercion, and responsibility
• “Unplugged” and advance directives
• “Great Firewall,” types of government, and censorship
• “Bitcoin for Dummies” and the morality of client-attorney confidentiality

The Good Wife and Philosophy will be a book in Open Court Publishing Company’s Popular Culture and Philosophy Series: http://www.opencourtbooks.com/categories/pcp.htm. Submit ideas for possible future PCP books to the series editor, George A. Reisch, at [email protected]: Thanks for your consideration.