Table of Contents

What Is It to Be Human? Blade Runner and Dark City Deborah Knight and George McKnight; Recalling the Self: Personal Identity in Total Recall Shai Biderman; Picturing Paranoia: Interpreting Invasion of the Body Snatchers Steven M. Sanders; The Existential Frankenstein Jennifer McMahon; Technology and Ethics in The Day the Earth Stood Still Aeon J. Skoble; Paradoxes of Time Travel in The Terminator and 12 Monkeys William J. Devlin; 2001: A Philosophical Odyssey Kevin L. Stoehr; The Terminator: Fear and the Paradox of Fiction Jason Holt; The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Metropolis Jerold J. Abrams; Imagining the Future and Contemplating the Past: The Screen Versions of 1984 R. Barton Palmer; Disenchantment and Rebellion in Alphaville Alan Woolfolk; The Matrix, the Cave, and the Cogito Mark T. Conard.

About the Author

Steven M. Sanders, emeritus professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, is the coeditor of The Philosophy of TV Noir.

Reviews

"Sanders and company guide us through apocalyptic visions of robotic rampages and mysterious journeys through space and time, stopping along the way for philosophical snapshots that enhance the tour." - Eric Bronson, editor of Poker and Philosophy: Pocket Rockets and Philosopher Kings"