Battlestar Galactica and philosophy: knowledge here begins out there 9781405178143, 9780470695739, 0470695730, 9780470696460, 047069646X

Table of contents :
Opening the ancient scrolls : classic philosophers as colonial prophets --
How to be happy after the end of the world / Erik D. Baldwin --
When machines get souls : Nietzsche on the cylon uprising / Robert Sharp --
"What a strange little man" : Baltar the Tyrant? / J. Robert Loftis --
The politics of crisis : Machiavelli in the colonial fleet / Jason P. Blahuta --
I, Cylon : are toasters people, too? --
"And they have a plan" : cylons as persons / Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey --
"I'm Sharon, but I'm a different Sharon" : the identity of cylons / Amy Kind --
Embracing the "children of humanity" : how to prevent the next cylon war / Jerold J. Abrams --
When the non-human knows its own death / Brian Willems --
Worthy of survival : moral issues for colonials and cylons --
The search for Starbuck : the needs of the many vs. the few / Randall M. Jensen --
Resistance vs. collaboration on New Caprica : what would you do? / Andrew Terjesen --
Being Boomer : identity, alienation, and evil / George A. Dunn --
Cylons in the original position : limits of posthuman justice / David Roden --
The arrow, the eye, and earth : the search for a (divine?) home --
"I am an instrument of God" : religious belief, atheism, and meaning / Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines --
God against the gods : faith and the exodus of the twelve colonies / Taneli Kukkonen --
"A story that is told again, and again, and again" : recurrence, providence, and freedom / David Kyle Johnson --
Adama's true lie : earth and the problem of knowledge / Eric J. Silverman --
Sagittarons, capricans, and gemenese : different worlds, different perspectives --
Zen and the art of cylon maintenance / James McRae --
"Let it be earth" : the pragmatic virtue of hope / Elizabeth F. Cooke --
Is Starbuck a woman? / Sarah Conly --
Gaius Baltar and the transhuman temptation / David Koepsell.

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