Eberl Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy

Knowledge Here Begins Out There
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69573-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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What's the point of living after your world has beendestroyed? This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-FiChannel's critically acclaimed series BattlestarGalactica. More than just an action-packed "spaceopera," each episode offers a dramatic character study of thehuman survivors and their Cylon pursuers as they confrontexistential, moral, metaphysical, theological, and politicalcrises.
This volume addresses some of the key questions to which theColonials won't find easy answers, even when they reachEarth: Are Cylons persons? Is Baltar's scientific worldviewsuperior to Six's religious faith? Can Starbuck be free ifshe has a special destiny? Is it ethical to cut one's lossesand leave people behind? Is collaboration with the enemy ever theright move? Is humanity a "flawed creation"? Should weshare the Cylon goal of "transhumanism"? Is it really abig deal that Starbuck's a woman?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eberl, Jason T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Giving Thanks to the Lords of Kobol.
"There Are Those Who Believe ...".
Part I Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers asColonial Prophets.
Erik D. Baldwin, How to be Happy After the End of the World.
Robert Sharp, When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the CylonUprising.
J. Robert Loftis, "What a Strange Little Man":Baltar the Tyrant?.
Jason P. Blahuta, The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in theColonial Fleet.
Part II I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?.
Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey, "And They Have aPlan": Cylons as Persons.
Amy Kind, "I'm Sharon, but I'm a DifferentSharon": The Identity of Cylons.
Jerold J. Abrams, Embracing the "Children ofHumanity": How to Prevent the Next Cylon War.
Brian Willems, When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death.
Part III Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials andCylons.
Randall M. Jensen, The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of theMany vs. the Few.
Andrew Terjesen, Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica:What Would You Do?.
George A. Dunn, Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, andEvil.
David Roden, Cylons in the Original Position: Limits ofPosthuman Justice.
Part IV The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a(Divine?) Home.
Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines, "I Am an Instrumentof God": Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning.
Taneli Kukkonen, God Against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus ofthe Twelve Colonies.
David Kyle Johnson, "A Story That Is Told Again, andAgain, and Again": Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom.
Eric J. Silverman, Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problemof Knowledge.
Part V Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: DifferentWorlds, Different Perspectives.
James McRae, Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance.
Elizabeth F. Cooke, "Let It Be Earth": The PragmaticVirtue of Hope.
Sarah Conly, Is Starbuck a Woman?.
David Koepsell, Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation.
There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors.
The Fleet's Manifest

Über Autor(innen)

Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His research interests focus on bioethics, metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. He has co-edited, with Kevin S. Decker, Star Wars and Philosophy (2005) and Star Trek and Philosophy (forthcoming).