David Kyle Johnson, PhD

Course: Sci-Phi: Philosophy through science fiction

David Kyle Johnson is a professor of philosophy at King’s College (Pennsylvania) and has three courses for “The Great Courses”: Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy (2018), The Big Questions of Philosophy (2016), and Exploring Metaphysics (2014).

Academically, he specializes in logic (both formal and scientific), metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. He has published articles in journals such as Religious Studies, Sophia, Philo, Think and Science, Religion, and Culture, and most of his articles are available (for free) on academia.edu.

Kyle also publishes prolifically on the intersection of philosophy and popular culture. He’s edited four books on the topic—Black Mirror and Philosophy (forthcoming), Inception and Philosophy (2011), Introducing Philosophy through Pop Culture (2010), and Heroes and Philosophy (2009)—and written over 20 pop culture and philosophy articles (on Star Trek, Doctor Who, South Park, Tolkien, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Family Guy, The Office, and Battlestar Galactica, just to name a few). He maintains two blogs for Psychology Today (Plato on Pop and A Logical Take), is the author of The Myths That Stole Christmas, and has an authors@google talk on Inception, with over half-a-million views on Youtube.