Author Bios

Meet the editors

William Irwin and David Kyle Johnson are both Professors of Philosophy at King’s College, in Wilkes Barre PA.

William Irwin is the General Editor of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Irwin originated the popular culture and philosophy genre of books in 1999 with Seinfeld and Philosophy. He co-edited The Simpsons and Philosophy and edited The Matrix and Philosophy, Metallica and Philosophy, and Black Sabbath and Philosophy. Irwin is the author of The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism and has published two novels: Free Dakota and Little Siddhartha. 

David Kyle Johnson’s specializations include metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of religion, and he also produces lecture series for The Teaching Company’s The Great Courses (such as Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy, The Big Questions of Philosophy, and Exploring Metaphysics). Kyle has published articles in journals such as Sophia, Religious Studies, Think, Philo, and Science, Religion and Culture and also wrote eleven entries in Bad Arguments: 100 of The Most Important Logical Fallacies in Western Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). He is the editor-in-chief of The (forthcoming) Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy and also regularly edits volumes for Blackwell’s Philosophy and Pop Culture series, such as Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections. He also maintains two blogs for Psychology Today: Plato on Pop (with William Irwin) and A Logical Take.