Table of Contents

CONTENTS 1. Bence Nanay: Empathy for the Devil: Why on Earth Do We Identify with Barney? 2. Miguel Angel Sebastian and Manolo Martinez: Smoking Subs and Eating Joints: What Counts as True in Fiction? 3. Jordan Pascoe: Telling Each Other Everything 4. Tobias Hainz and Yvonne Wurz: Is It Irrational to Wait for the Slutty Pumpkin? 5. Maryam Babur: Legend-wait for it-dary: The Anti-Mid-life Crisis Medicine? 6. Kris Goffin: When I Get Sad I Just Stop Being Sad and Be Awesome Instead 7. Carter Hardy: Barney's Magical World of Self-deception 8. M. Chris Sardo: The Cockamouse of Minerva Flies at Dusk: Ted Mosby as Reader of Hegel 9. Tina Talsma: A Mother and A Career-Woman: A Tale of Two Feminist Icons 10. Thomas Ainsworth: Me, me, me! Barney the Egoist 11. Michela Bordignon: How to Be Really Awesome : Living the Contradictions of a Possimpible World 12. Elize De Mul: Sandwiches, Blue Horns, Bob Barker and a Goat. Telling Your Life Story. 13. Joe Slater: The Barney Stinson Theory of Truth: True Story 14. Amanda Ypma: Robin Scherbatsky, the Most Amazing, Strong, Independent Woman Barney Has Ever Banged 15. Frank Karioris: The Bro Code as a Relational Starter 16. Radu Uszkai and Emanuel Socaciu: The Story of the Platinum Rule, as told by David Hume and Barney Stinson: Should You Really Really "Love" Thy Neighbor? 17. Bart van Beek: The Pick-up Game

About the Author

Lorenzo von Matterhorn is the pseudonym of a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University (UK). He is the author of Between Perception and Action and Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception (both forthcoming in 2013 from Oxford University Press), and editor of Perceiving the World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Before taking up full-time philosophy he was well known as a movie critic, and served on the jury at several major international film festivals. He lives in Antwerp, Belgium and Cambridge, England.