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LEGO and philosophy : constructing reality brick by brick

I LEGO® AND CREATIVITY Constructing Creativity Originality and Creativity Madmen, Oddballs, and Visionaries Resolving the Paradox Notes Building Blocks of Thought. LEGO® and the Philosophy of Play LEGO as a Thing You Think With Philosophy as Serious Play LEGO and Forms of Play LEGO as a Metaphor for Philosophy Notes LEGO® Formalism in Architecture Three Scenarios LEGO and Formalism Contextualism, Functional Beauty, and LEGO Other LEGO Worlds and the Real World Notes “That Was My Idea!”. LEGO® Ideas and Intellectual Property Avoiding Mistaken Identity Defending Your Rights Does Matter Matter?A Formative Account A Tale of Two Time Machines?History Matters!Notes II LEGO®, ETHICS, AND RULES “You Know the Rules!” What’s Wrong with The Man Upstairs?“Let’s Take Extra Care to Follow the Instructions”“You Know the Rules!”“First Law of the Sea: Never Place Yer Rear End on a Pirate’s Face”“Instructions to Fit In, Have Everybody Like You, and Always Be Happy”“That’s a Suggestion!”“Would You Like to Make an Appointment, or Shall I Summon the Micromanagers?”Notes Searching for “The Special”. The LEGO® Movie and the Value of (LEGO®) Persons “You’re Not The Special!”: President Business’s Theory of Extrinsic Value Emmet’s Vacillating Value Intrinsic Value and Emmet’s Enlightenment “You Still Can Change Everything”: The Implications of Emmet’s Belief in Intrinsic Value Notes LEGO® and the Social Blocks of Autonomy Emmet Wyldstyle Becoming The Special, “Everything is Awesome”Notes Building and Dwelling with Heidegger and LEGO® Toys Moods and Play Engaged Play with Modular Bricks “It’s a New Toy Everyday”Serious Play as Art: The Saving Power in LEGO-building Dwelling and Building with LEGO Notes III LEGO® AND IDENTITY Ninjas, Kobe Bryant, and Yellow Plastic. The LEGO® Minifigure and Race Where’s Lando?The Building Bricks of Race Kobe Bryant, Ninjas, and Race Race in The LEGO Movie Notes Girl, LEGO® Friends is not your Friend! Does LEGO® Construct Gender Stereotypes?Girls’ Best Friends or Worst Toy of the Year?LEGO Friends’ Friendly Sexism Is LEGO Playing with Stereotypes?Let the Friends Go to Space! How to Build a More Diverse World with Bricks Notes Representation in Plastic and Marketing. The Significance of the LEGO® Women Scientists “Explore the World and Beyond!”Girls’ Toys, Boys’ Toys: The Gendered Bias One Small Step for LEGO, One Giant Leap for Women in Science?Challenging the Representation of Women in Science: One Brick at a Time Notes Real Signature Figures. LEGO® Minifigures and the Human Individual Laying the Foundation Gathering the Right Pieces My Own Creation Over Time The Signature Figure of Philosophy Putting It All Together Notes IV LEGO®, CONSUMPTION, AND CULTURE LEGO® Values. Image and Reality A Problem: The Greenpeace Video Everything is Not Awesome? A Philosophical Assessment of LEGO LEGO, Politics, and Values Notes Small Farms, Big Ideas. LEGO® Farm and Agricultural Idealism What Can We Learn from a LEGO Farmer?LEGO Farm Animals What Else Is Misleading about LEGO Farm?Let’s Piece Together the Truth Notes The Reality of LEGO®. Building the Apocalypse The Basics of Baudrillard Stage 1: Basic Bricks Represent Reality Stage 2: Conflict Play and Masking Stage 3: Sky-fi and the Absence of Reality Stage 4: ApocaLEGO and Self-Simulation Notes The American Archipelago. Touring the Nation at Miniland USA Miniland America as Fan Developed Theme(park)America in Miniature: LEGOLAND California Rebuilding America: LEGOLAND Florida Diorama Americana Notes V LEGO®, METAPHYSICS, AND MATH The Brick, the Plate, and the Uncarved Block. LEGO® as an Expression of Dao It’s an Invitation, not a Toy “It’s Super Serious, Right, Babe?”“Actually it’s a Highly Sophisticated Interlocking Brick System”“No Government, No Babysitters ... and There’s Also No Consistency”“They’re Expecting Us to Show Up in a Bat-Spaceship”“Everything Is Awesome!”Notes LEGO®, Impermanence, and Buddhism What Is Impermanence?Benefits of an Impermanent Mindset Aggregates of Impermanence The LEGOs of Impermanence Notes LEGO® and the Building Blocks of Metaphysics The Metaphysics of LEGO LEGO Bricks and Fundamental Properties Counting Worlds LEGO Worlds, Change, and Causation Notes What Can You Build?Modal Epistemology Imagination Revisited Working Knowledge Beyond Working Knowledge Purism Notes Playing with LEGO® and Proving Theorems Plato against the Geometers Proofs and the Logical Structuring of Mathsy Stuff Follow the Instructions!The Geometers Strike Back Notes

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