Search Results - "Journal of science fiction and philosophy"

The Trolley Problem and Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics by Hedlund, Maria, Persson, Erik

“…How to make robots safe for humans is intensely debated, within academia as well as in industry, media and on the political arena. Hardly any discussion of the…”
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The Morality of Artificial Friends in Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun by Stenseke, Jakob

“…Can artificial entities be worthy of moral considerations? Can they be artificial moral agents (AMAs), capable of telling the difference between good and evil?…”
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Ex Machina: Testing Machines for Consciousness and Socio-Relational Machine Ethics by Harrison S. Jackson

“…Ex Machina is a 2014 science-fiction film written and directed by Alex Garland, centered around the creation of a human-like artificial intelligence (AI) named…”
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Children of the Mind and the Concept of Edge and Center Nations by Steven Foertsch

“…Orson Scott Card and his Ender Series have had a profound impact on the genre of contemporary science fiction, meriting an academic analysis of some of his…”
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The Politics of Truth in China: Ontological-Ethical Dimensions of Science and Science Fiction by Lennon Zhang

“…Reading science fiction in China as a science project, this paper articulates a philosophical reflection on the ontology and ethics of truth that stems from…”
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Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction. (Narr Francke Attempto, 2021) by Anna Campbell

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Learning from COVID-19: Virtue Ethics, Pandemics and Environmental Degradation: A case study reading of The Andromeda Strain (1971) and Contagion (2011) by Fiachra O'Brolcháin, Pat Brereton

“…This paper uses virtue ethics to discuss the COVID-19 outbreak, Hollywood science-fiction/pandemic films, and the environmental crisis. We outline the ideas of…”
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I Am Legend as Philosophy: Imagination in Times of Pandemic... A Mutation towards a "Second Reality?" by Rachad Elidrissi

“…A planetary panic and almost deserted cities, fear of food shortages, and the growing threat of an invisible virus that does more damage day by day. In the…”
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Is Alex Redeemable? A Clockwork Orange as a Philosophical-Literacy Platonic Fable by Jones Irwin

“…This essay explores the philosophical significance of Anthony Burgess’s 1960s novel A Clockwork Orange. Specific themes in this novel are developed through…”
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"What is my purpose?" Artificial Sentience Having an Existential Crisis in Rick and Morty by Alexander Maxwell

“…The American television show Rick and Morty, an animated science fiction sitcom, critiques speciesism in the context of bleak existentialist philosophy. Though…”
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me : Algorithmic Governmentality and the Notion of Subjectivity in Project Itoh's Harmony by Fatemeh Savaedi, Maryam Alavi Nia

“…Algorithmic governmentality is a new form of political governance interconnected with technology and computation. By coining the term “algorithmic…”
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Subversion and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Contemporary Science Fiction by Can Koparan

“…This article points out the ways in which the relationship between language and political resistance are problematized in “meta-linguistic” science fiction…”
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Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016) by Stefano Bigliardi

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Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fictional Feminist Daoism by Ethan Mills

“…It is hardly a novel claim that the work of Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) contains influences from philosophical Daoism, but I argue that this influence has…”
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Solving the Contact Paradox: Rational Belief in the Teeth of the Evidence by Thomas Vinci

“…Evidentialism is the doctrine that rational belief should be proportioned to one’s evidence. By “one’s evidence,” I mean evidence that we possess and know that…”
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memory Erasure, and the Problem of Personal Identity by Giorgina Samira Paiella

“…Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in 2019, is an extended thought…”
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Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike. (Open Court, 2013) by Stefano Bigliardi

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Towards a Biological Explanation of Sin in Walter M. Millers, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz by Christopher Ketcham

“…Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s 1959 novel A Canticle for Leibowitz is on one level a theological reflection on the human propensity to sin. Not coincidentally, the…”
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Dune and Philosophy: Weirding the Way of the Mentat (Open Court, 2011) by Brittany Caroline Speller

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Living in a Marxist Sci-Fi World: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Power of Science Fiction by Matías Graffigna

“…The state of our current world has brought about a very active discussion concerning possible alternatives to our current society. In this article, I wish to…”
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