The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland releasing in March 2010 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is treasured by people of all ages who have followed young Alice on her trip down a rabbit hole and into a fantasy world filled with strange and whimsical characters.

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

Should the Cheshire Cat's grin make us reconsider the nature of reality? Can Humpty Dumpty make words mean whatever he says they mean? Can drugs take us down the rabbit-hole? Is Alice a feminist icon? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as a blue caterpillar who smokes a hookah, a cat whose grin remains after its head has faded away, and a White Queen who lives backward and remembers forward? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under the influence? This book probes the deeper underlying meaning in the Alice books and reveals a world rich with philosophical life lessons. Tapping into some of the greatest philosophical minds that ever lived—Aristotle, Hume, Hobbes, and Nietzsche—Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy explores life's ultimate questions through the eyes of perhaps the most endearing heroine in all of literature. To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com