Personhood in Science Fiction Religious and Philosophical Considerations /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gittinger, Juli L. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Religion and sociology.; Popular Culture.; Religion.; Philosophy.; Ethics.; Religion and Society.; Popular Culture .; Popular Science in Religious Studies.; Popular Science in Philosophy.

"In Personhood in Science Fiction, Juli L. Gittinger does more than merely survey or even analyse the treatment of persons human, alien, and android across some of the most popular sci-fi franchises of recent years. She engages with one of the most puzzling and ethically challenging questions t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Defining Personhood in a Posthuman World
• 3. Dehumanization of the "Nonhuman" Being
• 4. Embodied and Non-bodied Selves
• 5. Ethics and AI
• 6. Artificial consciousness and Synthetic souls
• 7. The Alien-Other: Monsters, Mutants, and Othered Bodies
• 8. Free Will?
• 9. Concluding Thoughts.