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(2012) Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Douglas Adams was interested in what entertains people. Witness several passages that I shall quote below and also the wonderful Mostly Harmless passage that I have reproduced above.1 That interest in entertainment is unsurprising. Adams was a comedy writer and, in person, a raconteur. Now, what interests me, as a philosopher, and indeed as a citizen, is this: Hitchhiker's prompts reflection upon the ethics of entertainment (and, actually, that seems to have been something that interested Adams himself as well).2
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-39265-6_3
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Joll, N. (2012)., Mostly harmless?: Hitchhiker's and the ethics of entertainment, in N. Joll (ed.), Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 50-72.
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