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Title Battlestar Galactica and philosophy : knowledge here begins out there / edited by Jason T. Eberl.
Publisher Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

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Description x, 267 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN 9781405178143 paperback : alkaline paper
1405178140 paperback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Opening the ancient scrolls : classic philosophers as colonial prophets -- How to be happy after the end of the world / Erik D. Baldwin -- When machines get souls : Nietzsche on the Cylon uprising / Robert Sharp -- "What a strange little man" : Baltar the Tyrant? / J. Robert Loftis -- The politics of crisis : Machiavelli in the colonial fleet / Jason P. Blahuta -- I, Cylon : are toasters people, too? -- "And they have a plan" : Cylons as persons / Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey -- "I'm Sharon, but I'm a different Sharon" : the identity of Cylons / Amy Kind -- Embracing the "children of humanity" : how to prevent the next Cylon war / Jerold J. Abrams -- When the non-human knows its own death / Brian Willems -- Worthy of survival : moral issues for colonials and Cylons -- The search for Starbuck : the needs of the many vs. the few / Randall M. Jensen -- Resistance vs. collaboration on New Caprica : what would you do? / Andrew Terjesen -- Being Boomer : identity, alienation, and evil / George A. Dunn -- Cylons in the original position : limits of posthuman justice / David Roden -- The arrow, the eye, and earth : the search for a (divine?) home -- "I am an instrument of God" : religious belief, atheism, and meaning / Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines -- God against the gods : faith and the exodus of the twelve colonies / Taneli Kukkonen -- "A story that is told again, and again, and again" : recurrence, providence, and freedom / David Kyle Johnson -- Adama's true lie : earth and the problem of knowledge / Eric J. Silverman -- Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese : different worlds, different perspectives -- Zen and the art of Cylon maintenance / James McRae -- "Let it be earth" : the pragmatic virtue of hope / Elizabeth F. Cooke -- Is Starbuck a woman? / Sarah Conly -- Gaius Baltar and the transhuman temptation / David Koepsell.
Link Online version: Battlestar Galactica and philosophy. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008 (OCoLC)652122229
Series Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
Library Class Theatre T310.B354
Subject Battlestar Galactica (Television program : 2003)
Other Author Eberl, Jason T., editor.

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