The Philosophy of Ted Chiang
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| Summary: | XIX, 208 p. 3 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2025.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2025. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Free Will
- 1. Why the Market Value of Free Will is $99.99
- 2. Many-worlds and Free Will
- Part II. God
- 3. Death, God, and Meaning in Ted Chiang’s Stories
- 4. The Presence of Evil and the Absence of God
- 5. Gabe Rabin, Mysterious Ways: Making Sense of God’s Actions in Hell Is the Absence of God. Part III. Technology
- 6. The Value of Fact and Feeling
- 7. We Can Remember It for You Better: Ted Chiang on Technology and Human Knowledge
- Part IV. Existentialism
- 8. How to Live With Freedom
- 9. Existential Responsibility in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Chiang
- Part V. Beauty
- 10. Just Looking: Check Out the Computational Topography on Her!
- 11. Should You Like What You See? Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Appreciation of Human Beauty
- Part VI. Procreation Ethics
- 12. The Ethics of Making a Short Life
- Part VII. Contradictions
- 13. Knowledge, Symbols, and Understanding
- 14. Choosing What’s Fictionally True
- Part VIII. Time
- 15. Time Machines and Predictors are Possible but Unlikely
- 16. The Temporality of Our Emotions and Time in Ted Chiang’s Stories
- Part IX. Human and Alien Intelligence
- 17. Language, Thought, Experience, and Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”
- 18. Jeopardy! and the Stories of Our Lives
- 19. What Is It to Understand Enlightenment?
- Part X. Artificial Intelligence
- 20. Raising an AI Teenager
- 21. Save the Digients! On the Moral Status of AI.