Tattoos - Philosophy for Everyone

Robert Arp is a philosopher and ontologist who has taught at numerous colleges and universities.  He is the author of Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (2008) and a co-author of Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well (2011), What’s Good on TV: Understanding Ethics through Television (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Philosophy DeMYSTiFieD (2011); in addition, he is editor of South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).Series EditorFritz Allhoff is an associate professor in the philosophy department at Western Michigan University, as well as a senior research fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, he is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey and Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food and Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).  His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of science.

Review from http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/features/the-philosophy-of-tattoos-1-2340604" The Scotman 8 June 2012

• I Ink, Therefore I Foreword xRocky Rakovic I Am, Therefore I Ink: An Introduction to Tattoos – Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am xivRobert ArpAcknowledgments xxviiSHEET I THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF TATTOOS 11 Tattoos and the Tattooing Arts in Perspective: An Overview and Some Preliminary Observations 3Charles Taliaferro and Mark Odden2 How to Read a Tattoo, and Other Perilous Quests 14Juniper EllisSHEET II TATTOOS AND ART 273 Are Tattoos Art? 29Nicolas Michaud4 Fleshy Canvas: The Aesthetics of Tattoos from Feminist and Hermeneutical Perspectives 38Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Tanya RodriguezSHEET III THE TATTOOED WOMAN 515 Female Tattoos and Graffiti 53Thorsten Botz-Bornstein6 Painted Fetters: Tattooing as Feminist Liberation 65Nancy KangSHEET IV PERSONAL IDENTITY 817 Tattoo You: Personal Identity in Ink 83Kyle Fruh and Emily Thomas8 Illusions of Permanence: Tattoos and the Temporary Self 96Rachel C. Falkenstern9 My Tattoo May Be Permanent, But My Memory of It Isn't 109Clancy SmithSHEET V EXPRESSIONS OF FREEDOM 12110 Tattoos are Forever: Bodily Freedom and the (Im)possibility of Change 123Felipe Carvalho11 Bearing the Marks: How Tattoos Reveal Our Embodied Freedom 135Jonathan HeapsSHEET VI EXPERIENCES AND STORIES SURROUNDING TATTOOS 14912 Never Merely 'There': Tattooing as a Practice of Writing and a Telling of Stories 151Wendy Lynne Lee13 Something Terribly Flawed: Philosophy and ‘The Illustrated Man' 165Kevin S. DeckerSHEET VII ETHICAL CONCERNS 17914 The Vice of the Tough Tattoo 181Jennifer Baker15 To Ink, or Not To Ink: Tattoos and Bioethics 193Daniel Miori16 Writing on the Body: The Modern Morality of the Tattoo 206Simon WoodsSHEET VIII EASTERN AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES 21917 Is a Tattoo a Sign of Impiety? 221Adam Barkman18 Confessions of a Tattooed Buddhist Philosopher 230Joseph J. Lynch19 An Atheist and a Theist Discuss a Cross Tattoo and God's Existence 242Robert ArpNotes on Contributors 261