Science Fiction and Philosophy
From Time Travel to Superintelligence
Science fiction is more than mere entertainment. Historian H. Bruce Franklin defines it as the literature which, growing with science and technology, evaluates it and relates it meaningfully to the rest of human existence. Indeed, science fiction is increasingly converging with science fact. From the nature of mind to the ethics of AI and neural enhancement, science fiction thought experiments fire the philosophical imagination, encouraging us to think outside of the box about classic philosophical problems and even to envision new ones. For in certain cases, future technologies invite their own distinctive philosophical puzzles.Science Ficti…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4051-4906-8
- EAN: 9781405149068
- Produktnummer: 4850519
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.8 cm 674 g
- Gewicht: 674
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Susan Schneider is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, and a faculty member in Penn's Neuroethics program, its Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, and its Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. She is also a fellow with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. She is the author of numerous pieces in philosophy of mind, neuroethics, and metaphysics, and has co-edited The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) with Max Velmans.
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