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Here are the contents:
INTRODUCTION
1
Taylor Swift, “Shake It Off”
Epistemology (Saying vs. Seeing)
2
Meghan Trainor, “All About That Bass”
Value Theory (Human Perfection & Desire)
3
Maroon 5, “Animals”
Ontology (Human Nature vs. Animal Nature)
4
Bobby Shmurda, “Hot *****”
Ethics (Virtue & Friendship)
5
DJ Khaled, “I’ll Hold You Down”
Epistemology (Suspension of Disbelief)
6
Tove Lo, “Habits (Stay High)”
Ethics (Happiness & Virtue)
7
Foo Fighters, “My Hero”
Ethics (Heroes & Praise)
8
Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Ontology & Epistemology (Do Emotions Reveal Reality?)
9
Boston, “More Than a Feeling”
Epistemology & Ontology (Is Reality Emotional?)
10
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
Value Theory (Pain, Pleasure, & Value)
11
Hozier, “Take Me to Church”
Ontology (The Good vs. The True)
12
Jessie J, Ariana Grande, & Nicki Minaj, “Bang Bang”
Epistemology (Intersubjectivity)
13
Dido, “Thank You”
Ontology (Wholes vs. Heaps)
14
Ludacris, “Roll Out”
Ethics (Money & Power)
15
The Beatles, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
The Mind–Body Problem of Other Minds
16
The Beatles, “She Loves You”
Epistemology (Authority, Science, & Religion)
17
The Beatles, “Can’t Buy Me Love”
Essence: Are Things Their Origin, Their Current State, or Their End?
18
The Beatles, “Love Me Do”
Ethics = Epistemology & Ontology?: Love = Truth = Faith(fullness)
19
The Beatles, “A Hard Day’s Night”
Ontology (Art, Imagination, & Possibility)
20
The Beatles, “I Feel Fine”
Ontology (Belonging, Ownership, & Mereology)
21
Pentatonix, “Mary, Did You Know?”
Where Are Notes, Emotions, & Reason in the Body?
22
Idina Menzel, “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
Possible Worlds, Intersubjectivity, & Speech Acts
23
Michael Bublé, “Silent Night”
Political Theory (Who Should Get to Rule?)
24
Darius Rucker, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Ontology (The Ship of Theseus)
25
Nat King Cole, “The Christmas Song”
Value Theory (Is “Kids’ Stuff” Worse?)
26
The Foo Fighters, “Something from Nothing”
Ontology & Cosmogony
27
Five Finger Death Punch, “Wrong Side of Heaven”
Value Theory (Is Neutral 50% Bad + 50% Good?)
28
Royal Blood, “Figure It Out”
Ontology (A Refutation of Idealism)
29
Seether, “Same **** Life”
Ontology (Specific Identity, Heaps, & Deconstruction)
30
Three Days Grace, “I Am Machine”
Ontology (Quality from Quantity, Content from Form)
31
Burl Ives, “Holly Jolly Christmas”
Language Games & Speech Acts
32
Charlie Brown’s “Christmas Time Is Here” vs.
The Muppets’ “It Feels Like Christmas”
The Ontology of “Atmospheres” & “Seasons”
33
Dr. Seuss & Sixpence, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
Ethics (Can Vice Be Cured?)
34
Jars of Clay, “Little Drummer Boy”
Epistemology & Philosophy of Mind (The Five Love Languages)
35
Coolio (ft. L.V.), “Gangsta’s Paradise”
Nature vs. Nurture & Social Ontology
36
Green Day, “When I Come Around”
Weakness of Will (Socrates, Aristotle, & St. Paul)
37
TLC, “Waterfalls”
Ethics (Contra Coolio, Nurture Is the Cure)
38
Live, “Lightning Crashes”
Thrownness & Agency in a Social World
39
Notorious B.I.G., “Big Poppa/Warning”
Greed & Violence according to Plato, Marx, & Biggie
40
Better than Ezra, “Good”
Can You Reject a Finite Good & Still Think It Good?
41
TLC, “Creep”
Can You Accept Something Bad & Still Think It Bad?
Conclusion
