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Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy de N. Joll

Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Editat de N. Joll
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iul 2012
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230291126
ISBN-10: 0230291120
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: XVI, 308 p.
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:2012
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface Acknowledgements ('thanks for all the fish') Introduction Nicholas Joll Notes on Contributors PART I: ETHICS 'Eat Me': Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals; B.Saunders & E.Harding Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker's and the Ethics of Entertainment; N.Joll PART II: THE MEANING OF LIFE Life, the Universe, and Absurdity; A.Kind The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful; T.Chappell PART III: METAPHYSICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 'I Think You Ought To Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed': Marvin and Artificial Intelligence; J.Goodenough From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics; B.Dainton PART IV: LOGIC, METHOD, AND SATIRE 'God . . Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic'; M.Friend The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method, and the Logic of Jokes; A.Aberdein The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds Hitchhiker's as Philosophical Satire; A.Pawlak & N.Joll Glossary Bibliography (of Adams, Philosophy, and Everything) Indexes

Recenzii

'...very readable and mind-expanding collection...' - PD Smith, The Guardian

Notă biografică

ANDREW ABERDEIN Associate Professor of Humanities and Communication at Florida Institute of Technology, USATIMOTHY CHAPPELL Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Centre at The Open University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Moral Philosophy in The University of St Andrews, UK BARRY DAINTON Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UKMICHÈLE FRIEND Assistant Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, USA JERRY GOODENOUGH Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and an Associate Lecturer of the Open University, UKELOISE HARDING Teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, UKAMY KIND Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, California, USAALEXANDER PAWLAK BEN SAUNDERS Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, UK

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.