Table of Contents

A note to our Suppliers in the US and the UK: Support Philosophy - it uses lots of paper….

A Note to Bitter Brits and Confused Americans….

The Dundies: Some Awards for Making this Book Possible.

Memo 1: Paper Thin Morality.

1. Screws and Nails: Paper Tigers and Moral Monsters in The Office (US): J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College).

2. Flirting in The Office: What Can Jim and Pam’s Romantic Antics Teach Us about Moral Philosophy? (US): Mark D. White (College of Staten Island).

3. Can Michael Ever Learn?: Empathy and the Self-Other Gap (US): Andrew Terjesen (Rhodes College).

4. Leaving the Dice Alone: Pointlessness and Helplessness at Wernham-Hogg (UK): Wim Vandekerckhove (Ghent University) and Eva Tsahuridu (University of Greenwich Business School).

5. The Virtues of Humor: What The Office Can Teach Us About Aristotle’s Ethics (UK): Sean McAleer (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire).

Memo 2: Know Thyself!.

6. Pam and Jim on the Make: The Epistemology of Self-Deception (US): Stefanie Rocknak (Hartwick College).

7. What Dwight Doesn’t Know Can’t Hurt Him—Or Can It?.

Deception and Self-Deception in The Office (US): Randall M. Jensen (Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa).

8. Authenticity or Happiness? Michael Scott and the Ethics of Self-Deception (US): Peter Murphy (University of Indianapolis) and Jonathan Evans (University of Indianapolis).

9. Humiliation in The Office (and at Home) (US): John Elia (Wilson College).

Memo 3: Funny and not-so-funny Business.

10. Laughter between Distraction and Awakening: Marxist Themes in The Office (US): Michael Bray (at Southwestern University).

11. Being-in-The Office: Sartre, the Look, and the Viewer (US): Matthew Meyer (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) and Greg Schneider (University of Minnesota).

12. A Boy that Swims Faster than a Shark: Jean Baudrillard Visits The Office (UK): Russell Manning (Yarra Valley Grammar, Melbourne).

Memo 4: Mind Your Business!.

13. Stakeholders vs. Stockholders in the American Office (US): Rory E. Kraft, Jr. (York College of Pennsylvania).

14. Attacking with the North: Affirmative Action and The Office (US): David Kyle Johnson (King’s College in Wilkes-Barre).

15. Darkies, Dwarves, and Benders: Political (In)Correctness in The Office (UK): Thomas Nys (Utrecht University).

16. The Hostile Office: Michael as a Sexual Harasser (US): Keith Dromm (Northwestern State University).

17. The Obscene Watermark: Corporate Responsibility at Dunder-Mifflin (US): David Kyle Johnson (King’s College in Wilkes-Barre).

Memo 5: Philosophy at the water-cooler….

18. For L’Amour: Love and Friendship in The Office (US): Robert Arp (University at Buffalo) and Jamie Watson (Florida State University).

19. Look at the Ears! The Problem of Natural Kinds (UK): Thomas Nys (Utrecht University).

20. Gareth Keenan Investigates Paraconsistent Logic: The Case of the Missing Tim and the Redundancy Paradox (UK): Morgan Luck (Charles Sturt University).

21. Being Your Self in The Office (US): Rick Mayock (West Los Angeles College).

22. Michael Scott is Going to Die (US): Meg Lonergan (Hartwick College) and J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Hartwick College).

Appendix A, From Our Office to Yours: The University of Scranton and The Office.

Appendix B, Question: What do you need to know about Dwight K. Schrute?.

Corporate Filing System (Index).

Employees (Notes on Contributors)