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Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There
Jason T. Eberl (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7814-3
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288 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Giving Thanks to the Lords of Kobol.

“There Are Those Who Believe …”.

Part I Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets.

Erik D. Baldwin, How to be Happy After the End of the World.

Robert Sharp, When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising.

J. Robert Loftis, “What a Strange Little Man”: Baltar the Tyrant?.

Jason P. Blahuta, The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet.

Part II I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?.

Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey, “And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons.

Amy Kind, “I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon”: The Identity of Cylons.

Jerold J. Abrams, Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War.

Brian Willems, When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death.

Part III Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons.

Randall M. Jensen, The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few.

Andrew Terjesen, Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?.

George A. Dunn, Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil.

David Roden, Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice.

Part IV The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home.

Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines, “I Am an Instrument of God”: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning.

Taneli Kukkonen, God Against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies.

David Kyle Johnson, “A Story That Is Told Again, and Again, and Again”: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom.

Eric J. Silverman, Adama’s True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge.

Part V Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives.

James McRae, Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance.

Elizabeth F. Cooke, “Let It Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope.

Sarah Conly, Is Starbuck a Woman?.

David Koepsell, Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation.

There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors.

The Fleet’s Manifest

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