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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
