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    The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates

    The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates

    by William Irwin (Editor), Kevin S. Decker (Editor), Jason T. Eberl (Editor)


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    Kevin S. Decker is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Washington University, where he teaches ethics, American and Continental philosophy, and philosophy of popular culture. He is co-editor of Philosophy and Breaking Bad (2016) and Who is Who? The Philosophy of Doctor Who (2013). He is co-editor, with Jason T. Eberl, of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), Star Trek and Philosophy (2008), and Star Wars and Philosophy (2005).

    Jason T. Eberlis the Semler Endowed Chair for Medical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Marian University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he teaches bioethics, ethics, and medieval philosophy. He has edited or contributed to books on Battlestar Galactica, Sons of Anarchy, Metallica, Terminator, The Hunger Games, The Big Lebowski, Stanley Kubrick, J.J. Abrams, and Avatar. His most recent books are The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae (2015) and The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan (2016). He is co-editor, with Kevin S. Decker, of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), Star Trek and Philosophy (2008), and Star Wars and Philosophy (2005).

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    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments: The Command Staff of Utopia Planitia ix

    Introduction: A Guide to Living Long and Prospering 1

    I Alpha Quadrant: Home Systems 5

    1 “The More Complex the Mind, the Greater the Need for the Simplicity of Play” 7
    Jason T. Eberl

    2 Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of Greatness 18
    Jerold J. Abrams

    3 The Moral Psychology of a Starship Captain 26
    Tim Challans

    4 “Make It So”: Kant, Confucius, and the Prime Directive 36
    Alejandro B´arcenas and Steve Bein

    5 Destroying Utopias: Why Kirk Is a Jerk 47
    David Kyle Johnson

    6 “We Are Not Going to Kill Today”: Star Trek and the Philosophy of Peace 59
    David Boersema

    II Beta Quadrant: Dangerous Rivalries 69

    7 Klingons: A Cultural Pastiche 71
    Victor Grech

    8 The Borg as Contagious Collectivist Techno-Totalitarian Transhumanists 83
    Dan Dinello

    9 Assimilation and Autonomy 95
    Barbara Stock

    10 Q: A Rude, Interfering, Inconsiderate, Sadistic Pest—on a Quest for Justice? 105
    Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman

    11 Federation Trekonomics: Marx, the Federation, and the Shift from Necessity to Freedom 115
    Jeff Ewing

    12 “The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few”: Utilitarianism and Star Trek 127
    Greg Littmann

    13 Casuistry in the Final Frontier 138
    Courtland Lewis

    III Delta Quadrant: Questing for Home 149

    14 “Today Is a Good Day to Die!” Transporters and Human Extinction 151
    William Jaworski

    15 Two Kirks, Two Rikers 162
    Trip McCrossin

    16 Data, Kant, and Personhood; or,Why Data Is Not a Toaster 172
    Nina Rosenstand

    17 Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All aboard the Enterprise 180
    Dennis M.Weiss

    18 Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager’s Doctor and Seven of Nine 190
    Nicole R. Pramik

    19 Vision Quest into Indigenous Space 199
    Walter Robinson

    IV Gamma Quadrant: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations 211

    20 Rethinking the Matter: Organians Are Still Organisms 213
    Melanie Johnson-Moxley

    21 “In Search of . . . ” Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and Vulcans 223
    James M. Okapal

    22 Resistance Is Negligible: In Praise of Cyborgs 232
    Lisa Cassidy

    23 “Who I Really Am”: Odo, Mead, and the Self 243
    Pamela JG Boyer

    24 Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise’s “Cogenitor” and Moral Relativism 253
    William A. Lindenmuth

    25 Resistance Really Is Futile: On Being Assimilated by Our Own Technology 264
    Dena Hurst

    V Beyond the Galactic Barrier: The Future as the Final Frontier 273

    26 Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about the True Nature of Reality 275
    Dara Fogel

    27 Which Spock Is the Real One? Alternate Universes and Identity 288
    Andrew Zimmerman Jones

    28 “Strangely Compelling”: Romanticism in “The City on the Edge of Forever” 299
    Sarah O’Hare

    29 It Is a Q of Life: Q as a Nietzschean Figure 308
    Charles Taliaferro and Bailey Wheelock

    30 A God Needs Compassion, but Not a Starship: Star Trek’s Humanist Theology 315
    James F. McGrath

    31 “The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning”: Star Trek’s Secular Society 326
    Kevin S. Decker

    Contributors: Federation Ambassadors to Babel 340

    Index 349

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    • Reunites the editors of Star Trek and Philosophy with Starfleet’s finest experts for 31 new, highly logical essays
    • Features a complete examination of the Star Trek universe, from the original series to the most recent films directed by J.J. Abrams, Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
    • Introduces important concepts in philosophy through the vast array of provocative issues raised by the series, such as the ethics of the Prime Directive, Star Trek’s philosophy of peace, Data and Voyager’s Doctor as persons, moral relativism and the Federation’s quest for liberation, the effect of alternate universes on reality and identity, the Borg as transhumanists, Federation Trekonomics, Star Trek’s secular society, and much, much more…!
    • An enterprising and enlightening voyage into deep space that will appeal to hardcore fans and science fiction enthusiasts alike
    • Publishing in time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the original TV series

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