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Science Fiction and Philosophy From Time Travel to Superintelligence

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

23.02.2016

Herausgeber

Susan Schneider

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

432

Maße (L/B/H)

22,8/15,3/2,5 cm

Gewicht

614 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-92261-3

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"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'

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

23.02.2016

Herausgeber

Susan Schneider

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

432

Maße (L/B/H)

22,8/15,3/2,5 cm

Gewicht

614 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-92261-3

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Science Fiction and Philosophy
  • Introduction
     
    Thought Experiments: Science Fiction as a Window into Philosophical Puzzles 1
    Susan Schneider
     
    Part I Could I Be in a "Matrix" or Computer Simulation?
     
    Related Works: The Matrix; Avatar; Ender's Game; The Hunger Games; Simulacron?]3; Ubik; Tron; Permutation City; Vanilla Sky; Total Recall 17
     
    1 Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a Hard Drive 19
    Eric Schwitzgebel and R. Scott Bakker
     
    2 Are You in a Computer Simulation? 22
    Nick Bostrom
     
    3 Plato's Cave. Excerpt from The Republic 26
    Plato
     
    4 Some Cartesian thought Experiments. Excerpt from The Meditations on First Philosophy 30
    René Descartes
     
    5 The Matrix as Metaphysics 35
    David J. Chalmers
     
    Part II What Am I? Free Will and the Nature of Persons
     
    Related Works: Moon; Software; Star Trek, The Next Generation: Second Chances; Mindscan; The Matrix; Diaspora; Blindsight; Permutation City; Kiln People; The Gods Themselves; Jerry Was a Man; Nine Lives; Minority Report 55
     
    6 Where Am I? 57
    Daniel C. Dennett
     
    7 Personal Identity 69
    Eric Olson
     
    8 Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons 91
    Derek Parfit
     
    9 Who Am I? What Am I? 99
    Ray Kurzweil
     
    10 Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report 104
    Michael Huemer
     
    11 Excerpt from "The Book of Life: A Thought Experiment" 114
    Alvin I. Goldman
     
    Part III Mind: Natural, Artificial, Hybrid, and Superintelligent
     
    Related Works: Transcendence; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Humans; Blade Runner; AI; Frankenstein; Accelerando; Terminator; I, Robot; Neuromancer; Last and First Men; His Master's Voice; The Fire Upon the Deep; Solaris; Stories of your Life 117
     
    12 Robot Dreams 119
    Isaac Asimov
     
    13 A Brain Speaks 125
    Andy Clark
     
    14 Cyborgs Unplugged 130
    Andy Clark
     
    15 Superintelligence and Singularity 146
    Ray Kurzweil
     
    16 The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis 171
    David J. Chalmers
     
    17 Alien Minds 225
    Susan Schneider
     
    Part IV Ethical and Political Issues
     
    Related Works: Brave New World; Ender's Game; Johnny Mnemonic; Gattaca; I, Robot; Terminator; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Mindscan; Autofac; Neuromancer; Planet of the Apes; Children of Men; Nineteen Eighty?]Four; Player Piano; For a Breath I Tarry; Diamond Age 243
     
    18 The Man on the Moon 245
    George J. Annas
     
    19 Mindscan: Transcending and Enhancing the Human Brain 260
    Susan Schneider
     
    20 The Doomsday Argument 277
    John Leslie
     
    21 The Last Question 279
    Isaac Asimov
     
    22 Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" and Machine Metaethics 290
    Susan Leigh Anderson
     
    23 The Control Problem. Excerpts from Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 308
    Nick Bostrom
     
    Part V Space and Time
     
    Related Works: Interstellar; Twelve Monkeys; Slaughterhouse?]Five; All You Zombies; The Time Machine; Back to the Future; Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions; Anathem 331
     
    24 A Sound of Thunder 333
    Ray Bradbury
     
    25 Time 343
    Theodore Sider
     
    26 The Paradoxes of Time Travel 357
    David Lewis
     
    27 The Quantum Physics of Time Travel 370
    David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood
     
    28 Miracles and Wonders: Science Fiction as Epistemology 384
    Richard Hanley
     
    Appendix: Philosophers Recommend Science Fiction 393
    Eric Schwitzgebel
     
    Index 410