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Battlestar Galactica and philosophy : knowledge here begins out there / edited by Jason T. Eberl.

Contributor(s): Eberl, Jason TMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell philosophy and popculture seriesPublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008Description: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470696460; 047069646X; 9780470695739; 0470695730Subject(s): Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2004-2009) | Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2004-2009) | Battlestar Galactica (Fernsehsendung, 2003- ) | PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism | PhilosophieGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Battlestar Galactica and philosophy.DDC classification: 791.45/72 LOC classification: PN1992.77.B354 | B38 2008ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library
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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Title from title screen (Wiley InterScience, viewed Apr. 25, 2008).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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