Terminator and Philosophy: I’ll Be Back, Therefore I Am PDF
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Jeremy Wisnewski ffffiirrss..iinndddd iiii 33//22//0099 1100::2233::4400 AAMM T E R M I N A T O R A N D P H I L O S O P H Y I ' L L B E B A C K , T H E R E F O R E I A M Edited by Richard Brown and Kevin S. Decker John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffffiirrss..iinndddd iiiiii 33//22//0099 1100::2233::4411 AAMM This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2009 by John Wiley & Sons. 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Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. For more information about Wiley products, visit our web site at www.wiley.com. ISBN 978-0470-44798-7 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ffffiirrss..iinndddd iivv 33//22//0099 1100::2233::4411 AAMM CONTENTS Introduction: The Rise of the Philosophers 1 PART ONE LIFE AFTER HUMANITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1 The Terminator Wins: Is the Extinction of the Human Race the End of People, or Just the Beginning? 7 Greg Littmann 2 True Man or Tin Man? How Descartes and Sarah Connor Tell a Man from a Machine 21 George A. Dunn 3 It Stands to Reason: Skynet and Self-Preservation 39 Josh Weisberg 4 Un-Terminated: The Integration of the Machines 52 Jesse W. Butler PART TWO WOMEN AND REVOLUTIONARIES 5 “I Know Now Why You Cry”: Terminator 2, Moral Philosophy, and Feminism 69 Harry Chotiner v ffttoocc..iinndddd vv 33//22//0099 1100::2299::1188 AAMM vi CONTENTS 6 Sarah Connor’s Stain 82 Jennifer Culver 7 James Cameron’s Marxist Revolution 93 Jeffrey Ewing PART THREE CHANGING WHAT’S ALREADY HAPPENED 8 Bad Timing: The Metaphysics of the Terminator 109 Robert A. Delfi no and Kenneth Sheahan 9 Time for the Terminator: Philosophical Themes of the Resistance 122 Justin Leiber 10 Changing the Future: Fate and the Terminator 133 Kristie Lynn Miller 11 Judgment Day Is Inevitable: Hegel and the Futility of Trying to Change History 146 Jason P. Blahuta PART FOUR THE ETHICS OF TERMINATION 12 What’s So Terrible about Judgment Day? 161 Wayne Yuen 13 The War to End All Wars? Killing Your Defense System 175 Phillip Seng 14 Self-Termination: Suicide, Self-Sacrifi ce, and the Terminator 190 Daniel P. Malloy 15 What’s So Bad about Being Terminated? 202 Jason T. Eberl ffttoocc..iinndddd vvii 33//22//0099 1100::2299::1199 AAMM CONTENTS vii 16 Should John Connor Save the World? 218 Peter S. Fosl PART FIVE BEYOND THE NEURAL NET 17 “You Gotta Listen to How People Talk”: Machines and Natural Language 239 Jacob Berger and Kyle Ferguson 18 Terminating Ambiguity: The Perplexing Case of “The” 253 Richard Brown 19 Wittgenstein and What’s Inside the Terminator’s Head 266 Antti Kuusela CONTRIBUTORS: Future Leaders of the Resistance 279 INDEX: Skynet’s Database 287 ffttoocc..iinndddd vviiii 33//22//0099 1100::2299::1199 AAMM ffttoocc..iinndddd vviiiiii 33//22//0099 1100::2299::1199 AAMM
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