Terminator and Philosophy : I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am
by William Irwin (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania); Richard Brown; Kevin S. DeckerFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-05-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
Are cyborgs our friends or our enemies?Was it morally right for Skynet to nuke us?Is John Connor free to choose to defend humanity, or not?Is Judgment Day inevitable?The Terminator series is one of the most popular sci-fi franchises ever created, captivating millions with its edgy depiction of the struggle of humankind for survival against its own creations. This book draws on some of history's philosophical heavy hitters: Descartes, Kant, Karl Marx, and many more. Nineteen leather-clad chapters target with extreme prejudice the mysteries surrounding intriguing philosophical issues raised by the Terminator series, including the morality of terminating other people for the sake of peace, whether we can really use time travel to protect our future resistance leaders in the past, and if Arnold's famous T-101 is a real person or not. You'll say "Hasta la vista, baby" to philosophical confusion as you develop a new appreciation for the complexities of John and Sarah Connor and the battles between Skynet and the human race.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Rise of the Philosophers | |
| Life After Humanity And Artificial Intelligence. | |
| The Terminator Wins: Is the Extinction of the Human Race the End of People, or Just the Beginning | |
| True Man or Tin Man? How Descartes and Sarah Connor Tell a Man from a Machine | |
| It Stands to Reason: Skynet and Self-Preservation | |
| Un-Terminated: The Integration of the Machines | |
| Women And Revolutionaries. | |
| "I Know Now Why You Cry": Terminator 2, Moral Philosophy, and Feminism | |
| Sarah Connor's Stain | |
| James Cameron's Marxist Revolution | |
| Changing What'S Already Happened. | |
| Bad Timing: The Metaphysics of The Terminator | |
| Time for the Terminator: Philosophical Themes of the Resistance | |
| Changing the Future: Fate and the Terminator | |
| Judgment Day is Inevitable: Hegel and the Futility of Changing History | |
| The Ethics Of Termination. | |
| What's So Terrible About Judgment Day | |
| The War to End All Wars? Killing Your Defense System | |
| Self-Termination: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and the Terminator | |
| What's So Bad about Being Terminated | |
| Should John Connor Save the World | |
| Beyond The Neural Net. | |
| "You Gotta Listen to How People Talk": Machines and Natural Language | |
| Terminating Ambiguity: The Perplexing Case of "The" | |
| Wittgenstein and What's Inside the Terminator's Head | |
| Future Leaders of the Resistance | |
| Skynet's Database | |
| Index | |
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