Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There

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Wiley-Blackwell (2008)
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This thought-provoking book examines the philosophical issues arising from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, revealing how the ragtag fleet's outward journey to Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers

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9781405178143   9780470493533   9781444356571   9780470695739   1405178140   0470695730
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Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War.Jerold J. Abrams
“And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons.Robert Arp & Tracie Mahaffey
How to Be Happy After the End of the World.Erik D. Baldwin
The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet.Jason P. Blahuta
Is Starbuck a Woman?Sarah Conly
“Let it Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope.Elizabeth F. Cooke
Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil.George A. Dunn
“I Am an Instrument of God “: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning.Jason T. Eberl & Jennifer A. Vines
The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few.Randall M. Jensen
“A Story that is Told Again, and Again, and Again”: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom.David Kyle Johnson
“I'm Sharon, but I'm a different Sharon”: The identity of cylons.Amy Kind
Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation.David Koepsell
God against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies.Taneli Kukkonen
“What a Strange Little Man”: Baltar the Tyrant?J. Robert Loftis
Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance.James McRae
Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice.David Roden & J. T. Eberl
When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising.Robert Sharp
Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge.Eric J. Silverman
Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?Andrew Terjesen
When the Non‐Human Knows its Own Death.Brian Willems

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The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet.Jason P. Blahuta - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 40--51.
Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance.James McRae - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell.
“I Am an Instrument of God “: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning.Jason T. Eberl & Jennifer A. Vines - 2008 - In Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell.
When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising.Robert Sharp - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 15--28.
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“I'm Sharon, but I'm a different Sharon”: The identity of cylons.Amy Kind - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell.
“Let it Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope.Elizabeth F. Cooke - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 218--229.
Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice.David Roden & J. T. Eberl - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell.
Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge.Eric J. Silverman - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 192--202.
When the Non‐Human Knows its Own Death.Brian Willems - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 87--98.
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How to Be Happy After the End of the World.Erik D. Baldwin - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell.
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Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?Andrew Terjesen - 2008 - In Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 114--126.

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