ISBN:
9780230291126
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Joll, N Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Motion pictures and television
;
Motion pictures and television
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements ('Thanks for All the Fish') -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Ethics -- 1 'Eat Me': Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals -- 2 Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker's and the Ethics of Entertainment -- Part II The Meaning of Life -- 3 Life, the Universe, and Absurdity -- 4 The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful -- Part III Metaphysics and Artificial Intelligence -- 5 'I Think You Ought to Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed': Marvin and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract:
6 From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics -- Part IV Logic, Method and Satire -- 7 'God . . . Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic' -- 8 The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method and the Logic of Jokes -- 9 The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds - Hitchhiker's as Philosophical Satire -- Glossary -- Bibliography - of Adams, Philosophy and Everything -- Indexes
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