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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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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Meaning of Life
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Front Matter
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Metaphysics and Artificial Intelligence
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Back Matter
Reviews
'...very readable and mind-expanding collection...' - PD Smith, The Guardian
Editors and Affiliations
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Editors: Nicholas Joll
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-39265-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29112-6Published: 03 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-39265-6Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 308
Topics: Screen Studies, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, general, Popular Science in Philosophy, Media Research