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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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Introduction
PART ONE - LIFE AFTER HUMANITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Chapter 1 - THE TERMINATOR WINS: IS THE EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN RACE THE END OF ...
“Hi There . . . Fooled You! You’re Talking to a Machine.”
“It’s Not a Man. It’s a Machine.”
“Skynet Becomes Self-Aware at 2:14 AM Eastern Time, August 29th.”
“Cyborgs Don’t Feel Pain. I Do.”
NOTES
Chapter 2 - TRUE MAN OR TIN MAN? HOW DESCARTES AND SARAH CONNOR TELL A MAN FROM ...
Rise of the Bête-Machines
The Thing That Separates Us from the Machines
The Sarah Connor Criterion
Dreaming about Dogs
NOTES
Chapter 3 - IT STANDS TO REASON: SKYNET AND SELF-PRESERVATION
Does Self-Awareness Demand Self-Preservation?
Shall We Play a Game?
Skynet Is from Mars, Humans Are from Venus: Emotional Problems
Robots Are People, Too
NOTES
Chapter 4 - UN-TERMINATED: THE INTEGRATION OF THE MACHINES
In the Future: Humans vs. Machines
Present Day: Humans as Machines
Machines and Human Nature: Why James Cameron Is a Cyborg
NOTES
PART TWO - WOMEN AND REVOLUTIONARIES
Chapter 5 - “I KNOW NOW WHY YOU CRY”: TERMINATOR 2, MORAL PHILOSOPHY, AND FEMINISM
“You Can’t Just Go Around Killing People.” “Why?”
“All You Know How to Create Is Death . . . You Fucking Bastards.”
“We’re Not Gonna Make It, Are We? People, I Mean.”
NOTES
Chapter 6 - SARAH CONNOR’S STAIN
The Spot Sarah Connor Cannot Wash Away
Simulated Society: Sarah in a Science Fiction World
Stain and Social Roles: Why Sarah Won’t Be Mother of the Year
NOTES
Chapter 7 - JAMES CAMERON’S MARXIST REVOLUTION
“Desire Is Irrelevant. I Am a Machine”: Laws of Capitalism
“It’s Not Every Day You Find Out You’re Responsible for Three Billion Deaths”: ...
Judgment Day for Capitalism Is Inevitable
“Hasta la Vista, Baby”: James Cameron’s Tech-Savvy Marxism
NOTES
PART THREE - CHANGING WHAT’S ALREADY HAPPENED
Chapter 8 - BAD TIMING: THE METAPHYSICS OF THE TERMINATOR
“White Light, Pain. . . . It’s like Being Born Maybe . . . ”
“If You Don’t Send Kyle, You Could Never Be . . . ”
“One Possible Future . . . ”
“God, a Person Could Go Crazy Thinking about This . . . ”
NOTES
Chapter 9 - TIME FOR THE TERMINATOR: PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES OF THE RESISTANCE
Back from the Future
Intermission: Call Him Mister Machine
Paradoxes Galore: Why Does the Future Seem to Protect the Past?
While the Credits Roll: Can We Stop, or Even Turn Back, Weapons Technology?
NOTES
Chapter 10 - CHANGING THE FUTURE: FATE AND THE TERMINATOR
The Undiscovered Country: Does the Future Exist?
Living in the Now: Is This All There Is?
Judgment Day: Is the Future Fated to Happen?
NOTES
Chapter 11 - JUDGMENT DAY IS INEVITABLE: HEGEL AND THE FUTILITY OF TRYING TO ...
Hegel: The Germanator
The World Historical Individual: What a Tool!
Implacable History
In the End . . .
NOTES
PART FOUR - THE ETHICS OF TERMINATION
Chapter 12 - WHAT’S SO TERRIBLE ABOUT JUDGMENT DAY?
“Blowing Dyson Away”: Kant or Consequences
Machines Have Feelings, Too
Judgment Day Is the Morally Preferable Event
Are We Learning Yet?
NOTES
Chapter 13 - THE WAR TO END ALL WARS? KILLING YOUR DEFENSE SYSTEM
What Is It Good For?
But It’s Self-Defense!
“In a Panic, They Try to Pull the Plug”
“Talk to the Hand”
“I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle”
“I Almost . . . I Almost . . . ”
“The Battle Has Just Begun”
NOTES
Chapter 14 - SELF-TERMINATION: SUICIDE, SELF-SACRIFICE, AND THE TERMINATOR
Could the Terminator Die?
Did the Terminator Commit Suicide?
Was the Terminator’s Suicide Justified?
Can Suicide Ever Be Justified?
NOTES
Chapter 15 - WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT BEING TERMINATED?
“You’ve Been Targeted for Termination”
“Humans Inevitably Die”
“They Tried to Murder Me before I Was Born”
“Judgment Day Is Inevitable”
“I Swear I Will Not Kill Anyone”
NOTES
Chapter 16 - SHOULD JOHN CONNOR SAVE THE WORLD?
Cosmic Angst and the Burden of Choice
Just after 6:18 PM on Judgment Day, a Phone Rings. Should You Answer It?
Social Contracts, Divine Commands, and Utility
Why Me?
NOTES
PART FIVE - BEYOND THE NEURAL NET
Chapter 17 - “YOU GOTTA LISTEN TO HOW PEOPLE TALK”: MACHINES AND NATURAL LANGUAGE
“My CPU Is a Neural Net Processor”: The Code Model and Language
Why the Terminator Has to Listen to How People Talk
Skynet Doesn’t Want Them to Do Too Much Thinking: The Inferential Model
How to Make the Terminator Less of a Dork
NOTES
Chapter 18 - TERMINATING AMBIGUITY: THE PERPLEXING CASE OF “THE”
T1: Russell vs. Strawson
T2: The Ambiguity of “The”?
T3: Kripke and Devitt
T4: Ambiguity Salvation
NOTES
Chapter 19 - WITTGENSTEIN AND WHAT’S INSIDE THE TERMINATOR’S HEAD
If It Cries Like a Human, It Is Human . . .
“Desire Is Irrelevant. I Am a Machine”: The Mental Life of Terminators
John Connor: The T-101’s Everything
NOTES
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