How I Met Your Mother and Philosophy (36 page)

M. C
HRIS
S
ARDO
is a PhD student at Northwestern University, studying political theory. When not fantasizing about leaving academia to buy a bar, his research focuses on post-Kantian philosophy and pluralist democratic theory. His current project is a political reading of Kant's theory of the sublime, but he often finds that he really needs a scotch and soda and a cigar.

M
IGUEL
Á
NGEL
S
EBASTIÁN
, like Marshall, managed to convince a jury, not to become a judge but to get his PhD at the University of Barcelona. Like Ted, he had decided to move into academic life, not from architecture but from engineering, to do research in Philosophy. Miguel specializes in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciences, more precisely in the study of consciousness, perception, and the first-person perspective, but is also interested in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics. Like Robin, Miguel moved away to work, not to the States but to Mexico where he has worked as a postdoc at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNMA) since Summer 2012. Like Barney, . . . well you know, nothing can be compared to Uncle Barney.

J
OE
S
LATER
is a philosophy student, mostly concerned with the demands of morality. He has been looking for the mother of his future children under the tables in various bars in St. Andrews for the past seven years. He prefers rabbits to ducks and he likes olives.

T
INA
T
ALSMA
received her PhD from Florida State University in 2012 and works in Philosophy of Religion. Like Robin, she's Canadian and will defend her homeland to the death. She is married to a Ted Mosby—well, a structural engineer, so close enough. And she feels inspired by Marshall and Lily to break out the old saxophone and make up a ridiculous bedtime lullaby for her two-year-old son, Owen.

R
ADU
U
SZKAI AND
E
MANUEL
S
OCACIU
are philosophical bros at the University of Bucharest. Radu is a PhD candidate, while Emanuel is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. Their common research agenda revolves around the study of the emergence and evolution of norms (such as the Bro Code) in interactions. Radu has also published papers on classical liberalism, the norms of file-sharing, and intellectual property. Emanuel's main publications address topics in moral philosophy, applied ethics, and the epistemology of the social sciences.

Y
VONNE
W
ÜRZ
is a biologist with a focus on ethology. Her favorite animals—besides cats, of course—are zebra finches which is why she is conducting research on their personality and writing a PhD thesis about her findings. In general, she believes that there's not much of a difference between the personality of finches and humans, so that she regards herself as qualified to discuss phenomena like human rationality with professional philosophers. When you replace Robin Scherbatzky's dogs with cats, you get a good impression of Yvonne's apartment at an unknown point in the future.

A
MANDA
Y
PMA
holds a BA degree in History and Political Science from Grand Valley State University. She has a passion for television and film studies and has been analyzing television shows to a Ted-ish degree for the better part of her life. In her free time you can find her suiting up, being awesome instead, and tirelessly debating all things
How I Met Your Mother
at various online discussion forums.

Index

Aldrin, Lily,
4
,
58
,
60
,
76
,
93
,
95
,
96–97
,
160
,
173
,
181
,
189
,
201
; as artist,
26
,
143–44
,
150
,
198
; and Barney,
4
,
6
,
7
,
9
,
10
,
29–30
,
65
,
209
; and Marshall,
6
,
26
,
32
,
57
,
65
,
82
,
84
,
85–86
,
95
,
98
,
99–100
,
103–116
,
126
,
127
,
141
,
143
,
144
,
153
,
172
,
198
,
202
,
203
,
204
; and Robin,
43
,
45
,
48
,
64
,
103
,
131–141
; as teacher,
45
,
131
,
198
; and Ted,
90–91
; traditional role of,
51–52
,
55
,
85
,
138–39

Aristotle,
29
,
33
,
78
,
135
,
182–84
,
210
,
211
,
214
,
225

Arnhart, Larry,
182–87

“Atlantic City,”
48
,
203

awesome stuff,
12
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18
,
19
,
20
,
23
,
24
,
25
,
26
,
27
,
52
,
57
,
61
,
64
,
75
,
93
,
94
,
95
,
96
,
98
,
109
,
119
,
125
,
127
,
130
,
144
,
155
,
170
,
172
,
210
,
216
,
217
,
219
,
220
,
221
,
222
,
223
,
226
,
227
,
229

“Baby Talk,”
52

“Bachelor Party,”
6
,
33

“Bad News,”
9

“Band or DJ?”
77

barneytude,
223
;
see also
Stinson, Barney

“Belly Full of Turkey,”
3

“Best Couple Ever,”
4–5

“The Best Man,”
53

“Best Prom Ever,”
8

“Big Days,”
51

Blackburn, Simon,
120

Bond, James,
14

“The Bracket,”
3

The Bro Code
,
15
,
18
,
33
,
57
,
64
,
66
,
69–79
,
123
,
182
,
187

“The Bro Mitzvah,”
4
,
5

brohood;
see
The Bro Code

“Brunch,”
3
,
4
,
45

“Burning Beekeaper,”
8

“Chain of Screaming,”
3

“Challenge Accepted,”
53

Chisholm, James,
182–87

“Cleaning House,”
206
,
207

“Columns,”
170

“Come On,”
198

Cornell, Drucilla,
44

Currie, Gregory,
10
,
99–100

daddy issues,
16
,
46–47
,
214

dating;
see
hot-crazy scale
,
mermaid theory
,
platinum rule
,
Scuba Diver
,
The Playbook

Dawkins, Richard,
35

“Definitions,”
203

Descartes, René,
196

“Desperation Day,”
51

dialethism,
217

“Disaster Averted,”
4

“Do I Know You?”
49
,
205

“Doppelgangers,”
51
,
85
,
86

doppelgangers,
51
,
85–86
,
108–110

“Dowisetrepla,”
106
,
115

“The Drunk Train,”
54
,
204

“Ducky Tie,”
8

“The Duel,”
197

“Duel Citizenship,”
8

egoism,
31–42

emotion theory,
17–25

emotional contagion,
11–12

emotions,
3–14
,
15–27
,
62–66
,
137–140

empathy,
3–14
,
125
,
137–141

epistemology,
93–101
,
101–116
,
169–79

Eriksen, Marshall,
36
,
58
,
61
,
63
,
71
,
76
,
77
,
87
,
88–90
.
93
,
94
,
97
,
158
,
169
,
172
,
182
,
201–03
,
207
: and Barney,
4–5
,
7
,
8
,
29
; and Lily,
6
,
26
,
29
,
31
,
57
,
65
,
76
,
82
,
84
,
85–86
,
95
,
98–99
,
103–116
,
126–28
,
132
,
140–153
,
203–04
; monkey mugging story,
172–79
; and Robin,
46
,
78
; and Ted,
70
,
197–98
,
205

ethics,
29–42
,
57–66
,
72
,
104–116
,
119–130
,
137–141
,
154
,
182–194

evolution,
35–36
,
183–194

“The Exploding Meatball Sub,”
4
,
8

“False Positive,”
29
,
51

feminism,
43–56
,
69–79
,
131–141

“First Time in New York,”
202

“The Fortress,”
13

Foucault, Michel,
72

Friedman, Marilyn,
133

Friendship;
see
The Bro Code

“The Front Porch,”
48

Gabriel, Markus,
84

“Game Night,”
4
,
205

gender,
43–56
,
69–79
,
131–141

Giddens, Anthony,
201–02

Gilligan, Carol,
44
,
137

“Glitter,”
197

“The Goat,”
3
,
33
,
70
,
90–91
,
99
,
124
,
200

Goffman, Erving,
203–06

“Happily Ever After,”
44
,
47

Hegel, Georg,
81–86
,
89–92
,
214
,
226

Heidegger, Martin,
124
,
144–151
,
197–98

Heims, Michael,
202

Hitchcock, Alfred,
10–11

“Home Wreckers,”
163
,
198

hot-crazy scale,
41
,
73
,
123

“How Lily Stole Christmas,”
36
,
49
,
170

Hume, David,
5
,
119–129
,
188

Hutcheson, Francis,
119

“I Heart NJ,”
9

identity,
45–56
,
143–156
,
195–207

imagination,
9–11

interventions,
157

James, William,
17–18
,
154
,
171–79

Kant, Immanuel,
104–115
,
121
,
228

Kierkegaard, Søren,
144–45
,
150–55

“Last Words,”
207

Lewis, David,
98

“Little Boys,”
7
,
53

“The Lobster Crawl,”
103

logic,
209–224

love,
24–25
,
43–56
,
57–66
,
81–92
,
103–116
,
131–141
,
206

“Lucky Penny,”
8
,
86