| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements ('Thanks for All the Fish'); Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I Ethics; 1 'Eat Me': Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals; 2 Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker's and the Ethics of Entertainment; Part II The Meaning of Life; 3 Life, the Universe, and Absurdity; 4 The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful; Part III Metaphysics and Artificial Intelligence; 5 'I Think You Ought to Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed': Marvin and Artificial Intelligence; 6 From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics |
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Part IV Logic, Method and Satire7 'God ... Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic'; 8 The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method and the Logic of Jokes; 9 The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds -- Hitchhiker's as Philosophical Satire; Glossary; Bibliography -- of Adams, Philosophy and Everything; Indexes |
| Summary |
"This is the "philosophy and. ." book that really needed to be written - because it is aboutThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For (to paraphrase the great man himself) Hitchhiker's is not above a little philosophy in the same way that the sea is not above the sky. Moreover: this edited collection combines accessibility - and some humor - with rigor. It contains an introduction, nine chapters, a glossary, and multiple indexes. Topics covered include the meaning of life (and "42"), vegetarianism, the ethics of entertainment, artificial intelligence, multiple worlds, God, and philosophical method."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 23, 2016) |
| Subject |
Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001. Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (Novel)
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| SUBJECT |
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (Novel : Adams, Douglas) fast |
| Subject |
Philosophy in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Philosophy in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Joll, Nicholas, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780230392656 |
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0230392652 |
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