Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry Potter (Reason Papers Special Issue)

I am very excited to announce the publication in Reason Papers of my article: "Harry Potter and Humanity: Choices, Love, and Death" (PDF).

This is a special issue of Reason Papers: "Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry Potter". It had its start at "Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry Potter Potter," a conference organized by Carrie-Ann Biondi at Marymount Manhattan College on October 29, 2011. (link to information about that conference). The paper I presented at this conference is a much expanded paper that I gave at Tufts University in 2008. The published version was further revised and expanded from the Marymount Manhatthan conference.

Here is a link to the table of contents for all the articles in this special issue: http://www.reasonpapers.com/archives/ (Scroll to Issue 34, No. 1 June 2012).

Here is a link to the full issue on Harry Potter: http://www.reasonpapers.com/pdf/341/rp_341.pdf

And here is a link to my original blog post about the conference (with my talk abstract): http://www.philosophyblog.com/2011/05/philosophy-of-harry-potter-abstract.html

Lastly, a link to my co-edited book on Harry Potter: Harry Potter and Philosophy (Open Court 2004)