Blade Runner

This book explores and addresses Blade Runner from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful introduction, seven specially commissioned chapters examine the key questions concerning emotions, reason and personhood. Essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction Amy Coplan and David Davies 2. Elegy in LA: Blade Runner, empathy, and death Berys Gaut 3. ‘More human than human’: Blade Runner and being-toward-death Peter Atterton 4. Replicant love: Blade Runner Voight-Kampffed C. D. C. Reeve 5. Do humans dream of emotional machines? Colin Allen 6. Zhora through the looking-glass: notes on an esper analysis of Leon’s photograph Stephen Mulhall 7. In the mood for thought: mood and meaning in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Amy Coplan 8. Blade Runner and the cognitive values of cinema David Davies. Index

About the author

Amy Coplan is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, USA. She is the co-editor, with Peter Goldie, of Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (2011).

David Davies is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Art as Performance (2004), Aesthetics and Literature (2007), and Philosophy of the Performing Arts (2011), and editor of The Thin Red Line (Routledge, 2008).

Summary

This book explores and addresses Blade Runner from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful introduction, seven specially commissioned chapters examine the key questions concerning emotions, reason and personhood. Essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film studies.

Product details

• Authors: Amy (California State University - Fullert Coplan
• Assisted by: Amy Coplan (Editor), Coplan Amy (Editor), David Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2015
• EAN: 9780415485845
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48584-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Philosophers on Film
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Film Theory & Criticism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Film history, theory or criticism