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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real

William Irwin

First published 2002
Publisher Open Court
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Randy Martinaitis & Lisa Fyfe
Pages vii+280
Price $17.95
ISBN 081269502X

  • Publication month from Barnes & Noble.
  • Cover artists credited on back of book.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: Meditations on The Matrix William Irwin Essay
5 Computers, Caves, and Oracles: Neo and Socrates William Irwin Essay
16 Skepticism, Morality, and The Matrix Gerald J. Erion & Barry Smith (I) Essay
28 The Matrix Possibility David Mitsuo Nixon Essay
41 Seeing, Believing, Touching, Truth Carolyn Korsmeyer Essay
55 The Metaphysics of The Matrix Jorge J. E. Garcia & Jonathan J. Sanford Essay
66 The Machine-Made Ghost: Or, The Philosophy of Mind, Matrix-Style Jason Holt Essay
75 Neo-Materialism and the Death of the Subject Daniel Barwick Essay
87 Fate, Freedom, and Foreknowledge Theodore Schick, Jr. Essay
101 There is No Spoon: A Buddhist Mirror Michael Brannigan Essay
111 The Religion of The Matrix and the Problems of Pluralism Gregory Bassham Essay
126 Happiness and Cypher's Choice: Is Ignorance Bliss? Charles L. Griswold, Jr. Essay
138 We Are (the) One! Kant Explains How to Manipulate The Matrix James Lawler Essay
155 Notes From Underground: Nihilism and The Matrix Thomas S. Hibbs Essay
166 Popping a Bitter Pill: Existential Authenticity in The Matrix and Nausea Jennifer L. McMahon Essay
178 The Paradox of Real Response to Neo-Fiction Sarah E. Worth Essay
188 Real Genre and Virtual Philosophy Deborah Knight & George McKnight Essay
205 Presenting Keanu: New Holes, But the Same Old Shit Cynthia Freeland Essay
216 The Matrix, Marx, and the Coppertop's Life Martin A. Danahay & David Rieder Essay
225 The Matrix Simulation and the Postmodern Age David Weberman Essay
240 The Matrix, Or: The Two Sides of Perversion Slavoj Žižek Essay
267 The Potentials William Irwin Essay
273 The Oracle's Index William Irwin Essay