Sci-Phi : Science Fiction as Philosophy

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Course no. 4112.
Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min.
Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.
Disc 1. Inception and the Interpretation of Art ; The Matrix and the Value of Knowledge ; The Matrix Sequels and Human Free Will ; The Adjustment Bureau, the Force, and Fate ; Contact: Science versus Religion ; Arrival: Aliens and Radical Translation -- Disc 2. Interstellar: Is Time Travel Possible? ; Doctor Who and Time Travel Paradoxes ; Star Trek: TNG and Alternate Worlds ; Dark City, Dollhouse, and Personal Identity ; Westworld and A.I. Artificial Intelligence ; Transcendence and the Dangers of AI -- Disc 3. The Thirteenth Floor: Are We Simulated? ; The Orville, Orwell, and the "Black Mirror" ; Star Wars: Good versus Evil ; Firefly, Blake's 7, and Political Rebellion ; Starship Troopers, Doctor Who, and Just War ; The Prime Directive and Postcolonialism -- Disc 4. Capitalism in Metropolis, Elysium, and Panem ; Snowpiercer and Climate Change ; Soylent Green: Overpopulation and Euthanasia ; Gattaca and the Ethics of Reproduction ; The Handmaid's Tale: Feminism and Religion ; Kubrick's 2001 and Nietzsche's Übermensch.
Lecturer: Professor David Kyle Johnson, King's College.
Examines the philosophic questions that sci-fi raises, some of the answers to these questions that the creators of sci-fi give, and evaluates them with the help of history's most important philosophic thinkers.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

N + 1 submitted by tarascon on May 30, 2023, 6:34pm Superb for lovers of speculative fiction and its life lessons.

My only qualification is that the good Prof. uses one particular expression over and over and over again until it becomes a verbal approximation of the infamous water torture. I lost count after two hundred lol.