Pt. 1. The characters. Homer and Aristotle / Raja Halwani ; Lisa and American anti-intellectualism / Aeon J. Skoble ; Why Maggie matters: sounds of silence, East and West / Eric Bronson ; Marge's moral motivation / Gerald J. Erion, Joseph A. Zeccardi ; Thus spake Bart: on Nietzsche and the virtues of being bad / Mark T. Conard
Pt. 2. Simpsonian themes. The Simpsons and allusion: "worst essay ever" / William Irwin, J.R. Lombardo ; Popular parody: The Simpsons meets the crime film / Deborah Knight ; The Simpsons, hyper-irony, and the meaning of life / Carl Matheson ; Simpsonian sexual politics / Dale E. Snow, James J. Snow
Pt. 3. I didn't do it: ethics and The Simpsons. The moral world of the Simpson family: a Kantian perspective / James Lawler ; The Simpsons: atomistic politics and the nuclear family / Paul A. Cantor ; Springfield hypocrisy / Jason Holt ; Enjoying the so-called "iced cream": Mr. Burns, satan, and happiness / Daniel Barwick ; Hey-diddily-ho, neighboreenos: Ned Flanders and neighborly love / David Vessey ; The function of fiction: the heuristic value of Homer / Jennifer L. McMahon
Pt. 4. The Simpsons and the philosophers. A (Karl, not Groucho) Marxist in Springfield / James M. Wallace ; "And the rest writes itself": Roland Barthes watches The Simpsons / David L.G. Arnold ; What Bart calls thinking / Kelly Dean Jolley.