[Popular Culture and Philosophy 63] • Philip K. Dick and Philosophy · Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits? (Popular Culture and Philosophy Book 63) by Wittkower, D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Praise Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Through a Screen Darkly

01 - Hollywood Doesn’t Know Dick

We Can Conceive It for Ourselves Wholesale Free Will at the Box Office Determinism’s Bounty on Free Will Skepticism for Fun and Profit What’s So Bad about Determinism? What’s So Bad about Skepticism? A Happy Ending?

02 - A Quintessence of Dust

Show Me What You’re Made Of Have You Ever Retired a Human by Mistake? The Lung-less, All-Penetrating Masterful World-Silence Do You Think Androids Have Souls? The Cardinal Mystery of Creation

03 - Dick Doesn’t Do Heroes

You’ve Been Adjusted We Can Endorse That for You Wholesale Nagging Spouses and Robotic Home-Wreckers Scott versus Linklater Deckard versus Arctor From Hover Cars to Substance D Through a Screen, Darkly

04 - Ewe, Robot

How Animals Make Us Human Narcissism in a “More Human than Human” World Empathy in a “More Human than Human” World The Shock of Being Alive The Lives of Electric Others

Identity Crises

05 - Just Who and How Many Do You Think You Are?

The User Illusion In a Mirror, Darkly You Don’t Always Get Along The Outer Workings of the Mind The Scanner-Self The Valuable Self

06 - Will You Survive a Trip to Rekall, Inc.?

Follow the Psyche The Perils of Rekall, Inc. Gotta Have Soul? Future Selves and Imposters Selfless? Is It Live or Is It Memorex?

07 - Scan Thyself

How Do You Know You’re Not an Android? The Art of Knowing Arctor What Does A Scanner See? Phil Chews the Fat

08 - Human or Machine, Does It Mind or Matter?

Don’t Think about It . . . You Ever Take That Test Yourself? I Love You, My Artificial Construct . . . Because My Furnace Believed the House Was Cold Shaky Theological Foundations The Right Stuff

Soul Against the Archons

09 - Matt Damon Is a Vast Sinister Conspiracy

A Variety of Free Will Worth Having Terrible Freedom Pre-Crime and Pre-Punishment Freedom and Madness

10 - How to Build a Democracy that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Hundred Years Later

Rule of the Wise Spinning a Bottle Throwing the Rascals Out Checks and Challenges How Can Random Machinery Be Rational? Giving and Selling

11 - We Can Manipulate You Wholesale

Sure I Deceived You, but What about Me? Finding a Lever for Manipulation Categorically, We Have an Imperative Problem Utilitarian Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Coveralls Only Remembered as the Blonde Shot in the Head Like People, Like Organizations

12 - Grow, My Dears, the Eugenicist Said

The Bad The Good The Ugly And the Next Step

The World Is Fake

13 - Things Are Seldom What They Seem

How Are Things in Glocca Morra—or Anywhere Else, for That Matter? Ma or Machine? What’s Really Real? Alternate Realities? Back to Earth

14 - Trauma of the Real

Breakthrough to the Real Reality Is Not Real Procession of Dummies Remembrance of Being, Passed

15 - Lies, Incorporated

The Epistemology of Deception How Do We Get Deceived? Who Deceives Us? Circles within Circles Self-Deception How Can We Detect Deception?

16 - The Blob Necessitates

Of Blob The Nature and Origin of the “Mind” The Origin and Nature of Affective Disorder Of Plasmatic Bondage The Power of the Intellect, or of Fat’s Emotional Liberation

17 - The Gnosis of 2-3-74

Dick’s Gnosis about Gnostics Dick’s Twins Results of the Primordial Rape Pink Light

Ay, There’s the Wub

18 - Replicating Morality

Beyond Lies the Other How to Tell if You Are Really Just a Robot Can a Blade Runner Love a Robot? How to Build a Moral Robot

PUBLIC RELATIONS GUIDE FOR NEW OFFICERS DIVISION OF PRECRIME

01. Don’t We Arrest Innocent People? 02. But Is It Really Inappropriate to Punish Pre-criminals? 03. What Evidence Establishes Guilt? 04. What about Leaks?

20 - If the Universe Isn’t Real, How Should We Treat Other People?

To Be or Not To Be—Is That the Question? He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Other Fifty Ways to Love Your Other

Puppets and Precogs

21 - Knowing Tomorrow While Choosing Today

Freedom and Prediction Outside of Time? Prediction, or Sight? Perfect or Probabilistic?

22 - Total Recall’s Total Rethink

Memory and the Brain-Butchers Owning Your Actions, Owning Your Past Inpsychation and Chains of Will Quaid’s Problem—Mucky Origins Freedom Without Origins

23 - Lonely Wolves

Society’s a Bad Hit (If You’re Banging Up, Cranking, or Popping) Cultural Minority Report The Problem with Drugs It’s the Nausea Wolves Finish Last

Futurity Doctored

24 - I Know What You Did Next Summer

Pay Now, Live Later I Can Predict What You (Don’t) Do Next Summer Living in the Time of the Crime Always Invest in the Future Summarizing the Future The Future as Predictive Text

25 - Untimely Speculations

Human, All Too Human Preparatory Human Beings On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Eternity for Life

26 - The Day Roosevelt Was Assassinated

The Story Reality Determinism Time in the One Real World Precog a Are You

27 - Time in Unfixed Are You

Time through Travel You Blur a Are You

Briefings

28 - “Autofac” 29 - “King of the Elves” 30 - “The Golden Man” 31 - “Piper in the Woods” 32 - “The Exit Door Leads In” 33 - “The Gun”

The Master’s Own Voice

34 - Beyond Lies the Wub 35 - The Eyes Have It

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