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Contributors include David Chalmers, Andy Clark, Julia Driver, Hubert Dreyfus, Stephen Dreyfus, Frances Flannery -Dailey, Christopher Grau, Richard Hanley, Tim Mawson, Colin McGinn, Michael McKenna, John Partridge, James Pryor, Iakovos Vasiliou, Rachel Wagner, and Kevin Warwick.
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The Matrix trilogy is unique among recent popular films in that it is constructed around important philosophical questions--classic questions which have fascinated philosophers and other thinkers for thousands of years. Editor Christopher Grau here presents a collection of new, intriguing essays about some of the powerful and ancient questions broached by The Matrix and its sequels, written by some of the most prominent and reputable philosophers working today. They provide intelligent, accessible, and thought-provoking examinations of the philosophical issues that support the films.
Philosophers Explore The Matrix includes an introduction that surveys the use of philosophical ideas in the film. Topics that the contributors tackle include: how a collaborative dream could differ from hallucination, the difference between the Matrix and the "real" world; why living in the Matrix would be considered "bad"; the similarities between the Matrix and Plato's Cave; the moral status of artificially created beings, whether one can behave immorally in illusory circumstances, and the true nature of free will and responsibility. This volume also includes an appendix of classic philosophical writing on these issues by Plato, Berkeley, Descartes, Putnam, and Nozick.
Philosophers Explore The Matrix will fascinate any fan of the films who wants to delve deeper into their themes, as well as any student of philosophy who desires an accessible entry into this challenging and profoundly vital world of ideas.
Contributors include David Chalmers, Andy Clark, Julia Driver, Hubert Dreyfus, Stephen Dreyfus, Frances Flannery -Dailey, Christopher Grau, Richard Hanley, Tim Mawson, Colin McGinn, Michael McKenna, John Partridge, James Pryor, Iakovos Vasiliou, Rachel Wagner, and Kevin Warwick
Contents
1: Christopher Grau: Introduction
2: Christopher Grau: Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and The Matrix
3: Tim Mawson: Morpheus and Berkeley on Reality
4: James Pryor: What's So Bad about Living in the Matrix?
5: Colin McGinn: The Matrix of Dreams
6: Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stephen D. Dreyfus: Existential Phenomenology and the Brave New World of The Matrix
7: Iakovos Vasiliou: Reality, What Matters, and The Matrix
8: Richard Hanley: Never the Twain Shall Meet: Reflections on the Very First Matrix
9: David J. Chalmers: The Matrix as Metaphysics
10: Andy Clark: The Twisted Matrix: Dream, Simulation, or Hybrid?
11: Kevin Warwick: The Matrix--Our Future?
12: Julia Driver: Artificial Ethics
13: Michael McKenna: Neo's Freedom...Whoa!
14: John Partridge: Plato's Cave and The Matrix
15: Rachel Wagner and Frances Flannery-Dailey: Wake Up! Worlds of Illusion in Gnosticism, Buddhism, and The Matrix Project
Appendix: Selections from Classic Texts Plato, The Republic Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Berkeley, Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia Putnam, Reason, Truth, and History
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