Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: “It’s My Own Invention”— Yeah, Right! ix
Introduction: You’re Late for a Very Important Date 1
PART ONE “WAKE UP, ALICE DEAR”
1 Unruly Alice: A Feminist View of Some Adventures in Wonderland 7Megan S. Lloyd
2 Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow, but Never Jam Today: On Procrastination, Hiking, and . . . the Spice Girls? 19Mark D. White
3 Nuclear Strategists in Wonderland 33Ron Hirschbein
4 “You’re Nothing but a Pack of Cards!”: Alice Doesn’t Have a Social Contract 47Dennis Knepp
PART TWO “THAT’S LOGIC”
5 “Six Impossible Things before Breakfast” 61George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald
6 Reasoning Down the Rabbit-Hole: Logical Lessons in Wonderland 79David S. Brown
7 Three Ways of Getting It Wrong: Induction in Wonderland 93Brendan Shea
8 Is There Such a Thing as a Language? 107Daniel Whiting
PART THREE “WE’RE ALL MAD HERE”
9 Alice, Perception, and Reality: Jell-O Mistaken for Stones 125Robert Arp
10 How Deep Does the Rabbit-Hole Go?: Drugs and Dreams, Perception and Reality 137Scott F. Parker
11 Perspectivism and Tragedy: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Alice’s Adventure 153Rick Mayock
12 Wishing It Were Some Other Time: The Temporal Passage of Alice 167Mark W. Westmoreland
PART FOUR “WHO IN THE WORLD AM I?”13 Serious Nonsense 183Charles Taliaferro and Elizabeth Olson
14 “Memory and Muchness”: Alice and the Philosophy of Memory 197Tyler Shores
CONTRIBUTORS: Pawns and Pieces: As Arranged before Commencement of Game 213
INDEX: “Down, Down, Down”: What You Will Find at the Bottom 219