Lindsay Brainard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She writes about the nature of creativity and its significance in human life. Her work has been published in journals such as Philosophers' Imprint and The Philosophical Quarterly and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ryan W. Davis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He writes about the value of autonomy in philosophy, political psychology, and religion. His work has appeared in journals such as Religious Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, American Journal of Political Science, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Jessica Flanigan is Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond. Her work appears in journals such as Philosophical Studies and Journal of Moral Philosophy. She is the author of PharmaceuticalFreedom, Debating Sex Work, and Libertarianism the Basics.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION Lindsay Brainard, Ryan W. Davis, and Jessica Flanigan: Introduction: Straight from the Tortured Philosophers Department Methods in Reading: 13 Tools for Swiftian Exegesis PART II: MAGIC 1: John Dyck: Tim McGraw 2: Emily Hulme: A Literally Cathartic Reading of "All Too Well" 3: Hannah Jung: Karma Is Real: Swifties and the Hermeneutics of Clowning 4: Marilynn Johnson and Sydney Rios Bruner: Adorning Bodies in Taylor Swift's Lyrics and Persona: From Girlhood to Womanhood 5: Angela Sun: Eras PART III: MADNESS 6: Ryan W. Davis: The Mastermind's Problem of Self-Knowledge 7: Lindsay Brainard: Do Champagne Problems Have Rational SolutioNs? 8: Keshav Singh: ShoulD Love Make Us Crazy? 9: Jeremy Fried: We Could Be GLAAD: Considering "You Need to Calm Down" 10: Lindsay Brainard: How Could It Possibly End? PART IV: HEAVEN 11: Kayla Bohannon: Why Go Back to December?: Dimensions of Nostalgia in Taylor Swift's DIscography 12: Ryan W. Davis: Dorothea and the Sameness of SoulS 13: Jessica Flanigan: Boss Up/Bake BreAd 14: Justin F. White: How to Root for the Anti-Hero: Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Existentially Situated Aspiration 15: Jordan MacKenzie: Something OLd and Something New: Falling in Love with Taylor Swift's "Lover" 16: Agnes Callard: What Do You Want When You Want to Be Wanted? PART V: SIN 17: Mikayla Kelley: Can Thoughts Make Us Guilty as Sin? 18: Ian Cruise: Taylor SwIft and the Revenge Fantasy 19: Brynn F. Welch: Personal Transformation and Accidentally UnforgiVable Harms 20: Luke Russell: Taylor Swift Will Never Ever Forgive You 21: Katharina Paxman: "Look What You Made Me Do": Taylor Swift on the Socially Constituted Self 22: Jessica Flanigan: LovE, Liability, and Lyrics Index

Lindsay Brainard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She writes about the nature of creativity and its significance in human life. Her work has been published in journals such as Philosophers' Imprint and The Philosophical Quarterly and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ryan W. Davis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He writes about the value of autonomy in philosophy, political psychology, and religion. His work has appeared in journals such as Religious Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, American Journal of Political Science, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Jessica Flanigan is Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond. Her work appears in journals such as Philosophical Studies and Journal of Moral Philosophy. She is the author of PharmaceuticalFreedom, Debating Sex Work, and Libertarianism the Basics.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION Lindsay Brainard, Ryan W. Davis, and Jessica Flanigan: Introduction: Straight from the Tortured Philosophers Department Methods in Reading: 13 Tools for Swiftian Exegesis PART II: MAGIC 1: John Dyck: Tim McGraw 2: Emily Hulme: A Literally Cathartic Reading of "All Too Well" 3: Hannah Jung: Karma Is Real: Swifties and the Hermeneutics of Clowning 4: Marilynn Johnson and Sydney Rios Bruner: Adorning Bodies in Taylor Swift's Lyrics and Persona: From Girlhood to Womanhood 5: Angela Sun: Eras PART III: MADNESS 6: Ryan W. Davis: The Mastermind's Problem of Self-Knowledge 7: Lindsay Brainard: Do Champagne Problems Have Rational SolutioNs? 8: Keshav Singh: ShoulD Love Make Us Crazy? 9: Jeremy Fried: We Could Be GLAAD: Considering "You Need to Calm Down" 10: Lindsay Brainard: How Could It Possibly End? PART IV: HEAVEN 11: Kayla Bohannon: Why Go Back to December?: Dimensions of Nostalgia in Taylor Swift's DIscography 12: Ryan W. Davis: Dorothea and the Sameness of SoulS 13: Jessica Flanigan: Boss Up/Bake BreAd 14: Justin F. White: How to Root for the Anti-Hero: Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Existentially Situated Aspiration 15: Jordan MacKenzie: Something OLd and Something New: Falling in Love with Taylor Swift's "Lover" 16: Agnes Callard: What Do You Want When You Want to Be Wanted? PART V: SIN 17: Mikayla Kelley: Can Thoughts Make Us Guilty as Sin? 18: Ian Cruise: Taylor SwIft and the Revenge Fantasy 19: Brynn F. Welch: Personal Transformation and Accidentally UnforgiVable Harms 20: Luke Russell: Taylor Swift Will Never Ever Forgive You 21: Katharina Paxman: "Look What You Made Me Do": Taylor Swift on the Socially Constituted Self 22: Jessica Flanigan: LovE, Liability, and Lyrics Index

Lindsay Brainard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She writes about the nature of creativity and its significance in human life. Her work has been published in journals such as Philosophers' Imprint and The Philosophical Quarterly and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ryan W. Davis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He writes about the value of autonomy in philosophy, political psychology, and religion. His work has appeared in journals such as Religious Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, American Journal of Political Science, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Jessica Flanigan is Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond. Her work appears in journals such as Philosophical Studies and Journal of Moral Philosophy. She is the author of PharmaceuticalFreedom, Debating Sex Work, and Libertarianism the Basics.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION Lindsay Brainard, Ryan W. Davis, and Jessica Flanigan: Introduction: Straight from the Tortured Philosophers Department Methods in Reading: 13 Tools for Swiftian Exegesis PART II: MAGIC 1: John Dyck: Tim McGraw 2: Emily Hulme: A Literally Cathartic Reading of "All Too Well" 3: Hannah Jung: Karma Is Real: Swifties and the Hermeneutics of Clowning 4: Marilynn Johnson and Sydney Rios Bruner: Adorning Bodies in Taylor Swift's Lyrics and Persona: From Girlhood to Womanhood 5: Angela Sun: Eras PART III: MADNESS 6: Ryan W. Davis: The Mastermind's Problem of Self-Knowledge 7: Lindsay Brainard: Do Champagne Problems Have Rational SolutioNs? 8: Keshav Singh: ShoulD Love Make Us Crazy? 9: Jeremy Fried: We Could Be GLAAD: Considering "You Need to Calm Down" 10: Lindsay Brainard: How Could It Possibly End? PART IV: HEAVEN 11: Kayla Bohannon: Why Go Back to December?: Dimensions of Nostalgia in Taylor Swift's DIscography 12: Ryan W. Davis: Dorothea and the Sameness of SoulS 13: Jessica Flanigan: Boss Up/Bake BreAd 14: Justin F. White: How to Root for the Anti-Hero: Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Existentially Situated Aspiration 15: Jordan MacKenzie: Something OLd and Something New: Falling in Love with Taylor Swift's "Lover" 16: Agnes Callard: What Do You Want When You Want to Be Wanted? PART V: SIN 17: Mikayla Kelley: Can Thoughts Make Us Guilty as Sin? 18: Ian Cruise: Taylor SwIft and the Revenge Fantasy 19: Brynn F. Welch: Personal Transformation and Accidentally UnforgiVable Harms 20: Luke Russell: Taylor Swift Will Never Ever Forgive You 21: Katharina Paxman: "Look What You Made Me Do": Taylor Swift on the Socially Constituted Self 22: Jessica Flanigan: LovE, Liability, and Lyrics Index