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1 online resource (242 pages) |
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser |
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Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors: In Space, No One Can Hear Them Scream; Introduction: A Word of Warning ... ; Part I Identity and Moral Considerability: "We Made You Because We Could"; Chapter 1 "No Man Needs Nothing": The Possibility of Androids as Lockean Persons in Alien and Prometheus ; "Well, I guess that's because I'm a human being, and you're a robot"; "Technological, intellectual, physical ... emotional"; "The trick, William Potter, is not minding it hurts"; "I repeat, all other priorities rescinded"; "There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing"; Notes |
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Chapter 2 Androids: Artificial Persons or Glorified Toasters? "He was programmed to protect human life"; Autonomy; "Because pain hurts"; Agents and Patients; "It's a robot! A goddamn droid!"; Notes; Chapter 3 "All Other Priorities Are Rescinded": The Moral Status of Employees in the Alien Franchise ; You Will Get What You Deserve; Employees are Stakeholders; In Space No One Can Hear You Scream; This is Rumor Control. Here are the Facts!; Notes; Part II Ethics: "I Don't Know Which Species is Worse"; Chapter 4 Disposable Assets: Weyland-Yutani's Special Brew of Business Ethics |
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Greedy as a Space Pig"I work for the Company, but I'm really an OK guy"; Special Order 937-Crew Expendable; Chapter 5 Corporate Greed and Alien/ation: Marx vs. Weyland-Yutani ; To Have and to Consume; Work: The Alien Plague; The Real Enemy: Pure Capitalists; The End of History?; Notes; Chapter 6 The Public and its Alien Problem; Alien as Political Dystopia; Politics as a Science?; Aliens: Transforming the Social into the Economic; Hope for the Future; Notes; Chapter 7 Cross My Heart and Hope to Die: Why Ripley Must Save Newt ; "My name's 'Newt'" |
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"Those two specimens are worth millions to the bioweapons division"Jaws in Space; "A survivor"; "Standard procedure is to do what the hell they tell you to do"; "Why don't you put her in charge?"; "You don't need me. I'm not a soldier"; "Oh, yeah. Sure. With those things running around?"; "I don't want to hear about it, Bishop. She's alive. There's still time!"; Not Bad, for a [Wo]man; Notes; Part III Moral Psychology: "Unclouded by Conscience, Remorse, or Delusions of Mortality"; Chapter 8 Nuking the Colony to Save It: Colonial Marines and Just Wars ; When Aliens Stop Being Polite |
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The Burkian DialogueStill Searching for Answers; From Vietnam to Space; Easing Back on the APC's Throttle; Notes; Chapter 9 Xenomorphs and the Benefits of Exposure to Violence as Education; Hadley's Hope and Plato's Republic; Newt the Apprentice Guardian; Newt is Hardened Like an Egg; Should Your Child Watch Aliens?; Notes; Chapter 10 Alien, Alienation, and Alien Nation; Alien; Alienation; Alien Nation; Notes; Part IV Horror: "They Mostly Come at Night"; Chapter 11 Terror from the Stars: Alien as Lovecraftian Horror ; How to Frighten People; Keeping it Real as Aliens Attack |
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Truck Drivers in Space |
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Print version record |
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Alien (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83314511
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Alien (Motion picture) fast (OCoLC)fst01363422 |
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Science fiction films -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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Decker, Kevin S
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Ewing, Jeffrey A
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| ISBN |
9781119280842 |
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1119280842 |
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