Philosophers explore the Matrix/ edited by Christopher Grau
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2005Description: viii, 341 pISBN: 9780195181067 (alk. paper)DDC classification: 791.4372Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 791.4372 GRA/P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P31439 |
1 Introduction 3
Christopher Gran
2 Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine;
Philosophy and The Matrix 10
Christopher Grau
3 Morpheus and Berkeley on Reality 24
Tim Mawson
4 What's So Bad about Living in the Matrix? 40
James Pryor
5 The Matrix of Dreams 62
Colin McGinn
6 Existential Phenomenology and the Brave New World
of The Matrix 71
Hubert I. Dreyfus and Stephen D. Dreyfus
7 Reality, What Matters, and The Matrix 98
lakovos Vasiliou
8 Never the Twain Shall Meet: Reflections on the Very
First Matrix 115
Richard Hanley
9 The Matrix as Metaphysics 132
David }. Chalmers
viii Contents
10 The Twisted Matrix: Dream, Simulation, or Hybrid? 177
Andy Clark
11 The Matrix—Our Future? 198
Kevin Warwick
12 Artificial Ethics 208
Julia Driver
13 Neo's Freedom ... Whoa! 218
Michael McKenna
14 Plato's Cave and The Matrix 239
John Partridge
15 Wake Up! Worlds of Illusion in Gnosticism, Buddhism,
and The Matrix Project 258
Rachel Wagner and Frances Flannery-Dailey
Appendix: Selections from Classic Texts 289
Plato, The Republic 289
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy 295
Berkeley, Of the Principles of Human Knowledge 307
Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia 310
Putnam, Reason, Truth, and History 313
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