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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch
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The Federation Council GEORGE A REISCH
Ex Astris, Scientia GEORGE A REISCH
Starfleet Directive ONE - Seek Out New Ideas: Major Philosophical Themes in ...
1 - From Shakespeare to Wittgenstein: “Darmok” and Cultural Literacy
Wittgenstein and the Talking Lion
Philosophical Investigations in Outer Space
What Every Tamarian Needs to Know
Never Underestimate a TV Writer
2 - Death and Rebirth of a Vulcan Mind
“Logic Is the Soul of a Vulcan”
“It Is Not Logical, But It Is Often True”
“Here on These Sands, Our Forebears Cast Out Their Animal Passions”
“Logic Without Need Is Sterile”
3 - “Humans Smile with So Little Provocation”
“The Emotional Bonds that Make Us Who We Are”
“Insults Are Effective Only Where Emotion Is Present”
A “Quite Logical Relief” and Other Tranquil Affections
“All Good Things Must Come to an End”
4 - The Wrath of Nietzsche
“Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young, Doctor”
“Revenge Is a Dish that Is Best Served Cold”
“I’ve Hurt You . . . And I Wish to Go On Hurting You”
Meaning: The Final Frontier
5 - Mind Your Ps and Qs: Power, Pleasure, and the Q Continuum
Will Power Spoil Commander Riker?
“It’s Wondrous, with Treasures to Satiate Desires both Subtle and Gross”
“In Apprehension, How Like a God!”
“Condemned to Be a Member of This Lowest of Species”
Starfleet Directive TWO - Go Boldly, Yet Morally: Federation Ethics
6 - “Killing Your Own Clone Is Still Murder”: Genetics, Ethics, and Khaaaaan!
“Improve Man, and You Gain a Thousand Fold”
“Superior Ability Breeds Superior Ambition”
“It Is the Differences that Have Made Us Strong”
“Just the One of Us”
“Sometimes You Just Have to Bow to the Absurd”
7 - The Enterprise of Military Ethics: Jean-Luc Picard as Starfleet’s Conscience
“Resistance Is Futile”
“You Will Be Assimilated”
“It Was All for the Federation”
“Make It So”
8 - Is Odo a Collaborator?
“I’m Guilty. What More Is There to Say?”
“He’s Made of Liquid, But He’s Very Rigid”
“Nothing Else Matters”
“I’ve Never Been Good at Good-byes”
9 - “The Rules of Acquisition Can’t Help You Now”: What Can the Ferengi Teach ...
“Face It Quark, It’s Good Business”
“Sometimes the Only Thing More Dangerous than a Question Is an Answer”
Do Wise Men Only Hear Profit in the Wind?
“There’s More to Life than Profit”
Starfleet Directive THREE - A United Federation: Social and Religious Values of ...
10 - Inhuman Nature, or What’s It Like to Be a Borg?
“I Am the Beginning, the End, the One Who Is Many”
“It Is in My Nature to Comply with the Collective”
“The Borg Is the Ultimate User”
“Obviously, the Borg Can’t Hold Their Liquor”
11 - Recognizing the Big Picture: Why We Want to Live in the Federation
“You Have Helped Me to Recognize the Better Parts of Myself”
“You Have Kept My Course True and Steady”
“Its Continuing Mission”
12 - Why Not Live in the Holodeck?
Hume in the Holodeck
Whitehead and the Mortality Failsafe
Swinburne in the Nexus
Hick in the Q Continuum
Death on Veridian III
13 - The Second-Coming of Kahless: Worf’s “Will to Believe”
Questions, Questions: “Worf, You’re Not Alone”
William James and “The Important Things”
“A Matter of Faith”
Real Things and Rightful Heirs
“Something to Believe In”
14 - Cardassian “Monsters” and Bajoran “Freedom Fighters”
“A Masterpiece of Meticulous Exactitude”
“I’m Asking for All the Bajorans Who Can’t Ask”
“You Can Never Undo What I Accomplished”
“He’s a Cardassian! That’s Reason Enough”
Starfleet Directive FOUR - Multiple Enterprises: Metaphysical Conundrums from ...
15 - Time—The Final Frontier
Time’s Arrow
Time and Again
Timeless
Past Tense
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
16 - “Your Big Chance to Get Away from It All”: Life, Death, and Immortality
“We Are Merely a Different Kind of Machine”
“Does Data (or Any of Us) Have a Soul?”
“Is a Trill Responsible for the Conduct . . . of Its Antecedent Selves?”
“The Body Is Just a Shell”
“A Double Dumb-Ass on You!”
“I Feel Exactly What You Feel”
17 - Spock’s Vulcan Mind Meld: A Primer for the Philosophy of Mind
Dualism by Way of the Death and Rebirth of Spock: Is Scotty Beaming Us Up Too High?
Eliminative Materialism: Is Scotty Beaming Us Down Too Low?
Emergentism: Now Can Scotty Beam Us Up?
18 - Harry Mudd Always Lies
“A Dazzling Display of Logic”
“I Am Not Programmed to Respond in that Area”
“You’d Make a Splendid Computer, Mr. Spock”
“Logic Is the Beginning of Wisdom . . . Not the End”
Crew of the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-?
Chronicles from the Final Frontier
Isolinear Data
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