Sci-Phi : Science Fiction as Philosophy

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Call Number: BOCD 809.387 Jo Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 809.387 Jo Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact disc.
Course No. 4112.
Disc 1: Inception and the interpretation of art -- The matrix and the value of knowledge -- Disc 2: The Matrix sequels and the human free will -- The Adjustment bureau, the force and fate -- Disc 3: Contact : Science versus religion -- Arrival : Aliens and radical translation -- Disc 4: Interstellar : is time travel possible? -- Doctor Who and time travel paradoxes -- Disc 5: Star Trek : TNG and alternate worlds -- Dark city, Dollhouse, and Personal Identity -- Disc 6: Westeorld and A.I. Artificial Intelligence -- Transcendence and the Dangers of AI -- Disc 7: The thirteenth floor : are we simulated? -- The Orville, Orwell, and the "Black Mirror" -- Disc 8: Star Wars : good versus Evil -- Firefly, Blake's 7, and political rebellion -- Disc 9: Starship troopers, Doctor Who, and Just war -- The prime directive and Postcolonialism -- Disc 10: Capitalism in Metropolis, Elysium, and Panem -- Snowpiercer and climate change -- Disc 11: Soylent Green : overpopulation and Euthanasia -- Gattaca and the ethics of reproduction -- Disc 12: The Handmaid's tale : feminism and religion -- Kubrick's 2001 and Nietzsche's Übermensch.
Lecturer: David Kyle Johnson.
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.

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