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Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
ANDREW ABERDEIN Associate Professor of Humanities and Communication at Florida Institute of Technology, USA
TIMOTHY 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, UK
MICHÈLE 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, UK
ELOISE HARDING Teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, UK
AMY KIND Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA
ALEXANDER PAWLAK
BEN SAUNDERS Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, UK
Zusammenfassung
An entertaining yet thought-provoking volume that investigates some intriguing philosophical questions via the popular Hitchhiker books by Douglas Adams.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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; [...] PART II: THE MEANING OF LIFE Life, the Universe, and Absurdity; [...] 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 & [...] Glossary Bibliography (of Adams, Philosophy, and Everything) Indexes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xvi
308 S.
ISBN-13: 9780230291126
ISBN-10: 0230291120
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Joll, N.
Herausgeber: N Joll
Auflage: 2012 edition
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave MacMillan UK
Maße: 204 x 131 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: N. Joll
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2012
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 109039400
Über den Autor
ANDREW ABERDEIN Associate Professor of Humanities and Communication at Florida Institute of Technology, USA
TIMOTHY 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, UK
MICHÈLE 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, UK
ELOISE HARDING Teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, UK
AMY KIND Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA
ALEXANDER PAWLAK
BEN SAUNDERS Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, UK
Zusammenfassung
An entertaining yet thought-provoking volume that investigates some intriguing philosophical questions via the popular Hitchhiker books by Douglas Adams.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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; [...] PART II: THE MEANING OF LIFE Life, the Universe, and Absurdity; [...] 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 & [...] Glossary Bibliography (of Adams, Philosophy, and Everything) Indexes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xvi
308 S.
ISBN-13: 9780230291126
ISBN-10: 0230291120
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Joll, N.
Herausgeber: N Joll
Auflage: 2012 edition
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave MacMillan UK
Maße: 204 x 131 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: N. Joll
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2012
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 109039400
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