Philosophy and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /
"This is the "philosophy and. ." book that really needed to be written - because it is aboutThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For (to paraphrase the great man himself) Hitchhiker's is not above a little philosophy in the same way that the sea is not above the sky. Moreov...
| Други автори: | Joll, Nicholas. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Съдържание:
- PART I: Ethics. 'Eat Me': Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals / B. Saunders & E. Harding ; Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker's and the Ethics of Entertainment / N. Joll.
- PART II: The meaning of life. Life, the Universe, and Absurdity / A. Kind ; The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful / T. Chappell.
- PART III: Metaphysics and artificial intelligence. 'I Think You Ought To Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed': Marvin and Artificial Intelligence / J. Goodenough ; From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics / B. Dainton.
- PART IV: Logic, method, and satire. 'God . . Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic' / M. Friend ; The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method, and the Logic of Jokes / A. Aberdein ; The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds
- Hitchhiker's as Philosophical Satire / A. Pawlak & N. Joll.