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Joll, Nicholas

Philosophy and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Table of contents

1. Introduction
Nicholas Joll

Part I. Ethics

2. ‘Eat Me’: Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals
Ben Saunders, Eloïse Harding

3. Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker’s and the Ethics of Entertainment
Nicholas Joll

Part II. The Meaning of Life

4. Life, the Universe, and Absurdity
Amy Kind

5. The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful
Timothy Chappell

Part III. Metaphysics and Artificial Intelligence

6. ‘I Think You Ought to Know I’m Feeling Very Depressed’: Marvin and Artificial Intelligence
Jerry Goodenough

7. From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics
Barry Dainton

Part IV. Logic, Method and Satire

8. ‘God … Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic’
Michèle Friend

9. The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method and the Logic of Jokes
Andrew Aberdein

10. The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds — Hitchhiker’s as Philosophical Satire
Alexander Pawlak, Nicholas Joll

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, general, Popular Science in Philosophy, Media Research

Utgivare
Utgivare
Springer
Utgivningsår
2012
Språk
en
Utgåva
1
Sidantal
324 sidor
Kategori
Konst, konsthistoria
Format
E-bok
eISBN (PDF)
9780230392656
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978-0-230-29112-6

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