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Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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  • © 2012

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  1. Nicholas Joll

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Nicholas Joll
      Pages 1-24

  3. Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. ‘Eat Me’: Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals

      • Ben Saunders, Eloïse Harding
      Pages 27-49

    3. Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker’s and the Ethics of Entertainment

      • Nicholas Joll
      Pages 50-72

  4. The Meaning of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Life, the Universe, and Absurdity

      • Amy Kind
      Pages 75-100

    3. The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful

      • Timothy Chappell
      Pages 101-126

  5. Metaphysics and Artificial Intelligence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. ‘I Think You Ought to Know I’m Feeling Very Depressed’: Marvin and Artificial Intelligence

      • Jerry Goodenough
      Pages 129-152

    3. From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics

      • Barry Dainton
      Pages 153-181

  6. Logic, Method and Satire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. ‘God … Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic’

      • Michèle Friend
      Pages 185-212

    3. The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method and the Logic of Jokes

      • Andrew Aberdein
      Pages 213-235

    4. The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds — Hitchhiker’s as Philosophical Satire

      • Alexander Pawlak, Nicholas Joll
      Pages 236-268

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 269-308
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.

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'...very readable and mind-expanding collection...' - PD Smith, The Guardian

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Nicholas Joll

About the editor

ANDREW ABERDEIN Associate Professor of Humanities and Communication at Florida Institute of Technology, USA TIMOTHY CHAPPELL Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Centre at The Open University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Moral Philosophy in The University of St Andrews, UK BARRY DAINTON Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK MICHÈLE FRIEND Assistant Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, USA JERRY GOODENOUGH Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and an Associate Lecturer of the Open University, UK ELOISE HARDING Teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, UK AMY KIND Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA ALEXANDER PAWLAK BEN SAUNDERS Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, UK

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