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According to the original call for abstracts, the essays are to be "philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader".<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://webdata.bos.blackwellpublishing.com/Books/bsgcfa.htm|title=Call for Abstracts|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> | According to the original call for abstracts, the essays are to be "philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader".<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://webdata.bos.blackwellpublishing.com/Books/bsgcfa.htm|title=Call for Abstracts|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> | ||
==Contents== | |||
Erik D. Baldwin How to be Happy after the End of the World | |||
Robert Sharp When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising | |||
J. Robert Loftis “What a Strange Little Man”: Baltar the Tyrant? | |||
Jason P. Blahuta The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet | |||
Robert Arp “And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons | |||
Tracie Mahaffey | |||
Amy Kind “I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon”: The Identity of Cylons | |||
Jerold J. Abrams Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War | |||
Brian Willems When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death | |||
Randall M. Jensen The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few | |||
Andrew Terjesen Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do? | |||
George A. Dunn Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil | |||
David Roden Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice | |||
Jason T. Eberl “I Am an Instrument of God”: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning | |||
Jennifer A. Vines | |||
Taneli Kukkonen God against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies | |||
David Kyle Johnson “A Story That Is Told Again, and Again, and Again”: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom | |||
Eric J. Silverman Adama’s True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge | |||
James McRae Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance | |||
Elizabeth F. Cooke “Let It Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope | |||
Sarah Conly Is Starbuck a Woman? | |||
David Koepsell Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation<ref name="GWC">{{cite web|url=http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showpost.php?p=12368&postcount=17 |title=Cylons in America |date=November 2007 |accessdate=28 January 2007 |last=PhilosopherJedi |first= |format= |language= }}</ref> | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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- This article describes a book by Jason T. Eberl. For a general analysis of the series's philosophical aspects, see Philosophy in Battlestar Galactica. For the book from Open Court Publishing, see Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy (Open Court).
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| Author(s) | Jason T. Eberl | |
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| Published | January 29, 2008 | |
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Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There (Blackwell Publishing, December 2007, ISBN 1405178140), edited by philosophy professor Jason T. Eberl, is a collection of several essays dealing with philosophical aspects of Battlestar Galactica, and an entry in Blackwell's Philosophy and Pop Culture Series.
According to the original call for abstracts, the essays are to be "philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader".[1]
Contents
Erik D. Baldwin How to be Happy after the End of the World
Robert Sharp When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising
J. Robert Loftis “What a Strange Little Man”: Baltar the Tyrant?
Jason P. Blahuta The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet
Robert Arp “And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons Tracie Mahaffey
Amy Kind “I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon”: The Identity of Cylons
Jerold J. Abrams Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War
Brian Willems When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death
Randall M. Jensen The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few
Andrew Terjesen Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?
George A. Dunn Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil
David Roden Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice
Jason T. Eberl “I Am an Instrument of God”: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning Jennifer A. Vines
Taneli Kukkonen God against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies
David Kyle Johnson “A Story That Is Told Again, and Again, and Again”: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom
Eric J. Silverman Adama’s True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge
James McRae Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance
Elizabeth F. Cooke “Let It Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope
Sarah Conly Is Starbuck a Woman?
David Koepsell Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation[2]
See also
- "'I'm Sharon, but a Different Kind of Sharon': The Identity of Cylons", by Amy Kind. An essay from the book provided by Jason T. Eberl.
References
- ↑ Call for Abstracts (backup available on Archive.org) .
- ↑ PhilosopherJedi (November 2007). Cylons in America (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 28 January 2007.
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