“… a successful marriage of art with analytic philosophy.”
Mind & Machines, Fall 2010
“Susan Schneider is the Sarah Connor of philosophy as she ponders the role of science fiction and thought experiments to help understand uploading, time travel, superintelligence, the singularity, consciousness … and physicalism. Hasta La Vista baby.
” Richard Marshall, 3Quarks Daily
“Science Fiction and Philosophy brings two areas together and into a dialogue … science fiction reminds philosophy that all reason and no play makes thought a very dull thing indeed.
” Discover Magazine, November 2010
“Looking over the pages one can see Schneider’s attention to detail … Schneider has obviously made her choices for their accessibility and we should applaud her for this.
” Metapsychology
“I’ve always said that science fiction is a lousy name for this field; it’s really philosophical fiction: phi-fi not sci-fi! This book proves that with its penetrating analysis of the genre’s treatment of deep questions of reality, personhood, and ethics.”
Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids
SECOND EDITION
Edited by
Susan Schneider
This second edition first published 2016
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Names: Schneider, Susan, 1968– editor.
Title: Science fiction and philosophy : from time travel to superintelligence/ edited by Susan Schneider.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038424 (print) | LCCN 2015039864 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118922613 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781118922620 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118922606 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Science fiction–Philosophy. | Philosophy–Introductions. | Philosophy in literature.
Classification: LCC PN3433.6 .S377 2016 (print) | LCC PN3433.6 (ebook) | DDC 809.3/8762–dc23
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For Dave – stellar shipmate throughout life’s journeys and fellow lover of science fiction