Personhood in Science Fiction: Religious and Philosophical Considerations

1. Introduction -- 2. Defining Personhood in a Posthuman World -- 3. Dehumanization of the “Nonhuman” Being -- 4. Embodied and Non-bodied Selves -- 5. Ethics and AI -- 6. Artificial consciousness and Synthetic souls -- 7. The Alien-Other: Monsters, Mutants, and Othered Bodies -- 8. Free Will? -- 9....

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Main Author: Gittinger, Juli L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2019
In:Year: 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series/Journal:Springer eBooks Religion and Philosophy
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Science fiction / Personality (Motif)
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Religion and sociology
B Religion and society
B Science fiction
B Religion
B Popular Culture
B Personality
B Philosophy
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