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Science Fiction and Philosophy From Time Travel to Superintelligence

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

07.03.2016

Herausgeber

Susan Schneider

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

432

Maße (L/B/H)

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

Gewicht

541 g

Farbe

Schwarz / Weiß

Auflage

2nd edition

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

07.03.2016

Herausgeber

Susan Schneider

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

432

Maße (L/B/H)

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

Gewicht

541 g

Farbe

Schwarz / Weiß

Auflage

2nd edition

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