Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence

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 INDICE: Introduction .Thought Experiments: Science Fiction as a Window into Philosophical Puzzles 1Susan 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 19Eric Schwitzgebel and R. Scott Bakker .2 Are You in a Computer Simulation? 22Nick Bostrom .3 Plato s Cave. Excerpt from The Republic 26Plato .4 Some Cartesian thought Experiments. Excerpt from The Meditations on First Philosophy 30René Descartes .5 The Matrix as Metaphysics 35David 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? 57Daniel C. Dennett .7 Personal Identity 69Eric Olson .8 Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons 91Derek Parfit .9 Who Am I? What Am I? 99Ray Kurzweil .10 Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report 104Michael Huemer .11 Excerpt from The Book of Life: A Thought Experiment 114Alvin 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 119Isaac Asimov .13 A Brain Speaks 125Andy Clark .14 Cyborgs Unplugged 130Andy Clark .15 Superintelligence and Singularity 146Ray Kurzweil .16 The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis 171David J. Chalmers .17 Alien Minds 225Susan 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 245George J. Annas .19 Mindscan: Transcending and Enhancing the Human Brain 260Susan Schneider .20 The Doomsday Argument 277John Leslie .21 The Last Question 279Isaac Asimov .22 Asimov s Three Laws of Robotics and Machine Metaethics 290Susan Leigh Anderson .23 The Control Problem. Excerpts from Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 308Nick 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 333Ray Bradbury .25 Time 343Theodore Sider .26 The Paradoxes of Time Travel 357David Lewis .27 The Quantum Physics of Time Travel 370David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood .28 Miracles and Wonders: Science Fiction as Epistemology 384Richard Hanley .Appendix: Philosophers Recommend Science Fiction 393Eric Schwitzgebel .Index 410

• ISBN: 978-1-118-92261-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 22/02/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés