Philosophy and Blade Runner

Timothy Shanahan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

217 Seiten

2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-41228-7 (ISBN)

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Philosophy and Blade Runner explores philosophical issues in the film Blade Runner , including human nature, personhood, identity, consciousness, free will, morality, God, death, and the meaning of life. The result is a novel analysis of the greatest science fiction film of all time and a unique contribution to the philosophy of film.

Timothy Shanahan is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, USA. He is the author of Reason and Insight (2003), The Evolution of Darwinism (2004), Philosophy 9/11 (2005), The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism (2009), and over two dozen articles in scholarly journals.

Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction 2. Being Human 3. Persons 4. Identity 5. Consciousness 6. Freedom 7. Being Good 8. God 9. Death 10. Time and Meaning Epilogue Literature Cited Endnotes Index

Zusatzinfo	XIII, 217 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	133 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-137-41228-3 / 1137412283
ISBN-13	978-1-137-41228-7 / 9781137412287
Zustand	Neuware