As the editor of 'Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy' I'm very happy to see it mentioned here and would love to see the discussion continue of the show's philosophical themes. For those who haven't picked up the book, yet, here's the table of contents:
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
Robert Arp “And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons
Tracie Mahaffey
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
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
Jason T. Eberl “I Am an Instrument of God”: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning
Jennifer A. Vines
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
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
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