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Science Fiction and Philosophy

From Time Travel to Superintelligence

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Veröffentlicht 2015, von Susan Schneider bei John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 978-1-118-92260-6
Auflage: 2. Auflage
432 Seiten

 
Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and
Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that
utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a
variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues.

* Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and
contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent
scientific ...
Beschreibung
Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and
Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that
utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a
variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues.

* Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and
contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent
scientific developments

* Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain
enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of
artificial intelligence

* Features numerous updates to the popular and highly acclaimed
first edition, including new chapters addressing the cutting-edge
topic of the technological singularity

* Draws on a broad range of science fiction's more familiar
novels, films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The
Hunger Games, The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade
Runner, and Brave New World

* Provides a gateway into classic philosophical puzzles and
topics informed by the latest technology

Besprechung
"Schneider's anthology, as it stands, is a great introduction to many of the fundamental theoretical issues raised by SF. Each topic is covered with a panel of accessible texts. One will also appreciate the presence of several short stories and references to related works of SF in every section of the book." (Metapsychology online reviews 2016)

"What are consciousness and free will? Will artificial beings have them? Do we? And do we owe an ethical debt to future generations, even if they wear quite different bodies, or minds? These, and countless other questions first raised by a century's worth of canonical science fiction, are now ambitiously appraised by Susan Schneider in a volume that explores our philosophical frontier."

David Brin, astrophysicist and Times best-selling author of The Postman and Earth

"Susan Schneider has assembled an incredibly wide range of stimulating and accessible thoughts in these pages. The second edition of Science Fiction and Philosophy will fascinate anyone who enjoys thinking 'outside of the box'--though it might leave their minds in a whirl!"

Martin Rees, 'UK Astronomer Royal'

Über Susan Schneider

Susan Schneider is a Philosophy Professor at the University of Connecticut and a Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies. She is the author of The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction (2011) and the co-author, with Max Velmans, of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness (2006).