I always wondered if my philosophy degree would be of any use in the real world and finally it has. The Good Place is the first programme I can recall that namechecks serious thinkers such as Philippa Foot, who tackled the ethical dilemma of would you push one person in front of a runaway tram to save a crowd of people? In series three Tim Scanlon also gets namechecked for his book What we owe to each other.