Irwin / Brown / Decker Terminator and Philosophy

I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-73010-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

A timely book that uses science fiction to provoke reflectionand discussion on philosophical issues
From the nature of mind to the ethics of AI and neuralenhancement, science fiction thought experiments fire thephilosophical imagination, encouraging us to think outside of thebox about classic philosophical problems and even to envision newones. Science Fiction and Philosophy explores puzzles about virtualreality, transhumanism, whether time travel is possible, the natureof artificial intelligence, and topics in neuroethics, among othertimely issues. This thought-provoking volume is suitable forstudents and general readers but also examines new and moreadvanced topics of interest to seasoned philosophers andscientists.
Susan Schneider (Hometown TK) is Assistant Professor in thedepartment of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and anAffiliated Faculty Member at the Institutes for Research inCognitive Science and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irwin, William

Brown, Richard

Decker, Kevin S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Rise of the Philosophers.
I. LIFE AFTER HUMANITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Chapter 1: The Terminator Wins: Is the Extinction of the HumanRace the End of People, or Just the Beginning? (GregLittmann).
Chapter 2: True Man or Tin Man? How Descartes and Sarah ConnorTell a Man from a Machine (George Dunn).
Chapter 3: It Stands to Reason: Skynet and Self-Preservation(Josh Weisberg).
Chapter 4: Un-Terminated: The Integration of the Machines(Jesse W. Butler).
II. WOMEN AND REVOLUTIONARIES.
Chapter 5: "I Know Now Why You Cry": Terminator 2, MoralPhilosophy, and Feminism (Harry Chotiner).
Chapter 6: Sarah Connor's Stain (JenniferCulver).
Chapter 7: James Cameron's Marxist Revolution (JeffreyEwing).
III. CHANGING WHAT'S ALREADY HAPPENED.
Chapter 8: Bad Timing: The Metaphysics of The Terminator(Robert Delfino and Kenneth Sheahan).
Chapter 9: Time for the Terminator: Philosophical Themes of theResistance (Justin Leiber).
Chapter 10: Changing the Future: Fate and the Terminator(Kristie Lynn Miller).
Chapter 11: Judgment Day is Inevitable: Hegel and the Futilityof Changing History (Jason Blahuta).
IV. THE ETHICS OF TERMINATION.
Chapter 12: What's So Terrible About Judgment Day?(Wayne Yuen).
Chapter 13: The War to End All Wars? Killing Your Defense System(Phillip Seng).
Chapter 14: Self-Termination: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and theTerminator (Daniel P. Malloy).
Chapter 15: What's So Bad about Being Terminated (JasonT. Eberl).
Chapter 16: Should John Connor Save the World? (PeterFosl).
V. BEYOND THE NEURAL NET.
Chapter 17: "You Gotta Listen to How People Talk": Machines andNatural Language (Jacob Berger and Kyle Ferguson).
Chapter 18: Terminating Ambiguity: The Perplexing Case of "The"(Richard Brown).
Chapter 19: Wittgenstein and What's Inside theTerminator's Head (Antti Kuusela).
Future Leaders of the Resistance.
Skynet's Database.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

RICHARD BROWN is an assistant professor at LaGuardia CommunityCollege's Philosophy and Critical Thinking Program in New YorkCity.
KEVIN S. DECKER is an assistant professor of philosophy atEastern Washington University. He coedited Star Wars and Philosophyand Star Trek and Philosophy.
WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King's College. Heoriginated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books ascoeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and hasoverseen recent titles including Batman and Philosophy, House andPhilosophy, and Watchmen and Philosophy.