Westworld and philosophy : if you go looking for the truth, get the whole thing / edited by James B. South and Kimberly S. Engels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

South, James B., 1960- editor.

Engels, Kimberly S., editor.

Series:

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Westworld (Television program).

Physical Description:

xvi, 264 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018.

Contents:

Part I "You Said This Place Was a Game" 3

1 On Playing Cowboys and Indians 5 / Don Fallis

2 A Special Kind of Game: The Portrayal of Role-play in Westworld 15 / Nicholas Moll

3 Humans and Hosts in Westworld: What's the Difference? 26 / Marcus Arvan

Part II "You're Only Human, After All" 39

4 Crossing the Uncanny Valley: What it Means to be Human in Westworld 41 / Siobhan Lyons

5 Revealing Your Deepest Self: Can Westworld Create or CorruVirtue? 50 / Jason T. Eberl

6 Westworld: From Androids to Persons 61 / Onni Hirvonen

Part III "We Can't Define Consciousness Because Consciousness Does Not Exist" 71

7 Turing's Dream and Searle's Nightmare in Westworld 73 / Lucía Carrillo González

8 What Is it like to Be a Host? 79 / Bradley Richards

9 Does the Piano Play Itself? Consciousness and the Eliminativism of Robert Ford 90 / Michael Versteeg and Adam Barkman

Part IV "Choices Hanging in the Air Like Ghosts" 103

10 Maeve's Dilemma: What Does it Mean to be Free? 105 / Marco Antonio Azevedo and Ana Azevedo

11 "A Place to Be Free": Writing Your Own Story in Westworld 114 / Joshua D. Crabill

12 From William to the Man in Black: Sartrean Existentialism and the Power of Freedom 125 / Kimberly S. Engels

Part V "I've Always Loved a Great Story...Lies That Told a Deeper Truth" 137

13 Hideous Fictions and Horrific Fates 139 / Madeline Muntersbjorn

14 Narrating Gender, Gendering Narrative, and Engendering Wittgenstein's "Rough Ground" in Westworld 150 / Lizzie Finnegan

15 The Observer(s) System and the Semiotics of Virtuality in Westworld's Characters: Jonathan Nolan's Fictions as a Conceptual Unity 162 / Patricia Trapero-Llobera

16 What Does Bernard Dream About When He Dreams About His Son? 173 / Oliver Lean

Part VI "I Choose to See the Beauty" 183

17 The Dueling Productions of Westworld: Self-Referential Art or Meta-Kitsch? 185 / Michael Forest and Thomas Beckley-Forest

18 Beauty, Dominance, Humanity: Three Takes on Nudity in Westworld 196 / Matthew Meyer

19 Sci-Fi Western or Ancient Greek Tragedy? 206 / Caterina Ludovica Baldini

Part VII "You Can't play God Without Being Acquainted With the Devil" 217

20 Of Hosts and Men: Westworld and Speciesism 219 / François Jaquet and Florian Cova

21 Violent Births: Fanon, Westworld, and Humanity 229 / Anthony Petros Spanakos

22 The Wretched of Westworld: Scientific Totalitarianism and Revolutionary Violence 239 / Dan Dinello.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Westworld and philosophy.

ISBN:

9781119437888

1119437881

OCLC:

1022076691