Research Catalog

Title

Transformers and philosophy : more than meets the mind / edited by John R. Shook and Liz Stillwaggon Swan.

Publication

Chicago : Open Court, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shook, John R.
• Swan, Liz Stillwaggon, 1973-

Description

ix, 243 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 40

Uniform Title

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 40.

Subjects

• Trivia and miscellanea
• Comic books, strips, etc > Moral and ethical aspects
• Transformers (Fictitious characters) > Miscellanea

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The changing shape of things to come / J. Storrs Hall -- First contact / John R. Shook -- Object lessons / Kevin S. Decker, Karl Erbacher, and Gabriel Rye -- What changes when transformers transform? / Michael Spicher -- In the eye of the beholder / Josef Steiff -- Can metal be mental? / Matthew Pike -- Will we meet optimus prime in heaven? / M.R. Eyestone -- Optimus prime in therapy / Eric Swan and Liz Stillwaggon Swan -- Morally responsible machines / Robert Arp -- Robots in love? / Jamie Watson and Robert Arp -- Good robot, bad robot, what's the difference? / Nicolas Michaud -- Beyond good? Beyond evil? Beyond your wildest imagination? / Adam Barkman -- Optimus prime: hero for our time / Corey Neil -- Megatron, fascist philosopher / John R. Shook -- Are ethical war-bots possible? / David R. Koepsell -- Freedom is the right of all sentient beings / Geoffrey Allan Plauché.

ISBN

• 9780812696677 (trade paper : alk. paper)
• 0812696670 (trade paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009009549

OCLC

• 277205536
• SCSB-11921746

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library