Science fiction and philosophy
By: edited by Susan Schneider.
Contributors: Schneider, Susan, 1968-
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781405149075
Subjects: Science fiction -- Philosophy; Philosophy -- Introductions; Philosophy in literature
Genres: Introductions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Brain in a vat / John Pollock; title: Are you in a computer simulation? / Nick Bostrom; title: Excerpt from The republic / Plato; title: Excerpt from The meditations in first philosophy / Rene Descartes; title: The matrix as metaphysics / Dave Chalmers; title: Where am I? / Daniel Dennett; title: Personal identity / Eric Olsen; title: Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit; title: Where am I? What am I? / Ray Kurzweil; title: Free will and determinism in the world of Minority report / Michael Huemer; title: The book of life : a thought experiment / Alvin Goldman; title: Robot dreams / Isaac Asimov; title: A brain speaks / Andy Clark; title: Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing; title: The mind as software to brain / Ned Block; title: Minds, brains, programs / John Searle; title: Cyborgs unplugged / Andy Clark; title: Consciousness in human and robot minds / Daniel Dennett; title: Superintelligence and singularity / Ray Kurzweil; title: Brave new world / Aldous Huxley; title: Man on the moon / George Annas; title: Transhumanist frequently asked questions / Nick Bostrom; title: Mindscan : transcending and enhancing the human brain / Susan Schneider; title: The doomsday argument / John Leslie; title: Asimov's three laws of robotics and machine metaethics / Susan Anderson; title: Ethical issues in advanced intelligence / Nick Bostrom; title: A sound of thunder / Ray Bradbury; title: Time / Ted Sider; title: The paradox of time travel / David Lewis; title: The quantum physics of time travel / Michael Lockwood and David Deutsch; title: Miracles and wonders : science fiction as epistemology / Richard Hanley.