Kevin S. Decker is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Washington University, where he teaches ethics, American and Continental philosophy, and philosophy of popular culture. He is co-editor of Philosophy and Breaking Bad (2016) and Who is Who? The Philosophy of Doctor Who (2013). He is co-editor, with Jason T. Eberl, of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), Star Trek and Philosophy (2008), and Star Wars and Philosophy (2005).

Jason T. Eberlis the Semler Endowed Chair for Medical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Marian University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he teaches bioethics, ethics, and medieval philosophy. He has edited or contributed to books on Battlestar Galactica, Sons of Anarchy, Metallica, Terminator, The Hunger Games, The Big Lebowski, Stanley Kubrick, J.J. Abrams, and Avatar. His most recent books are The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (2015) and The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan (2016). He is co-editor, with Kevin S. Decker, of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), Star Trek and Philosophy (2008), and Star Wars and Philosophy (2005).

Voyaging Defiantly through the Philosophical Galaxy

ALPHA QUADRANT: Home Systems

1. "The More Complex the Mind, the Greater the Need for the Simplicity of Play"
Jason T. Eberl

2. Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of Greatness
Jerold J. Abrams

3. The Moral Psychology of a Starship Captain
Tim Challans

4. "Make It So": Kant, Confucius, and the Prime Directive
Alejandro Bárcenas and Steve Bein

5. Destroying Utopias: Why Kirk is a Jerk
David Kyle Johnson

6. "We Are Not Going to Kill Today": Star Trek and the Philosophy of Peace
David Boersema

BETA QUADRANT: Dangerous Rivalries

7. Klingons: A Cultural Pastiche
Victor Grech

8. The Borg as Contagious Collectivist Techno-Totalitarian Transhumanists
Dan Dinello

9. Assimilation and Autonomy
Barbara Stock

10. Q: A Rude, Interfering, Inconsiderate, Sadistic Pest--on a Quest for Justice?
Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman

11. Federation Trekonomics: Marx, the Federation, and the Shift from Necessity to Freedom
Jeff Ewing

12. "The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few": Utilitarianism and Star Trek
Greg Littmann

13. Casuistry in the Final Frontier
Courtland Lewis

DELTA QUADRANT: Questing for Home

14. "Today Is a Good Day to Die!" Transporters and Human Extinction
William Jaworski

15. Two Kirks, Two Rikers
Trip McCrossin

16. Data, Kant, and Personhood; or, Why Data Is Not a Toaster
Nina Rosenstand

17. Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All Aboard the Enterprise
Dennis M. Weiss

18. Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager's Doctor and Seven of Nine
Nicole R. Pramik

19. Vision Quest into Indigenous Space
Walter Robinson

GAMMA QUADRANT: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

20. Re-Thinking the Matter: Organians Are Still Organisms
Melanie Johnson-Moxley

21. "In Search of..." Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and Vulcans
James M. Okapal

22. Resistance is Negligible: In Praise of Cyborgs
Lisa Cassidy

23. "Who I Really Am": Odo, Mead, and the Self
Pamela JG Boyer

24. Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise's "Cogenitor" and Moral Relativism
William A. Lindenmuth

25. Resistance Really Is Futile: On Being Assimilated by Our Own Technology
Dena Hurst

BEYOND THE GALACTIC BARRIER: The Future as the Final Frontier

26. Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About the True Nature of Reality
Dara Fogel

27. Which Spock is the Real One? Alternate Universes and Identity
Andrew Zimmerman Jones

28. "Strangely Compelling": Romanticism in "The City on the Edge of Forever"
Sarah O'Hare

29. It is a Q of Life: Q as a Nietzschean Figure
Charles Taliaferro and Bailey Wheelock

30. A God Needs Compassion, But Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist Theology
James F. McGrath

31. "The Human Adventure is Just Beginning": Star Trek's Secular Society
Kevin S. Decker