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The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates

Kevin S. Decker & Jason T. Eberl

First published 2016
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Pages ix+358
ISBN 9781119146001

Printing line has "1 2016" suggesting either 1st printing or January 2016 printing. "This edition first published 2016". William Irwin is the series editor. No credit for cover design or image. No price listed, sticker for Canadian price of $19.95. The essays are divided into different sections: - Alpha Quadrant: Home Systems p. 5 - Beta Quadrant: Dangerous Rivalries p. 69 - Delta Quadrant: Questing for Home p. 149 - Gamma Quadrant: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations p. 211 - Beyond the Galactic Barrier: The Future as the Final Frontier p. 273 The Contents is sub-titled 'Voyaging Defiantly through the Philosophical Galaxy'. There is introductory material - 'Acknowledgments: The Command Staff of Utopia Planita' on p. ix and an index on pp. 349-358 which are left out of the Contents. The essay on the contributing authors ('Contributors: Federation Ambassadors to Babel') may contain fictitious material. The following titles contain italics: '"We Are Not Going to Kill Today": Star Trek and the Philosophy of Peace', '"The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few": Utilitarianism and Star Trek', 'Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All Aboard the Enterprise', 'Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager's Doctor and Seven of Nine', 'Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise's "Cogenitor" and Moral Relativism', 'Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About the True Nature of Reality', 'A God Needs Compassion, but Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist Theology' and '"The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning": Star Trek's Secular Society'

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: A Guide to Living Long and Prospering Kevin S. Decker & Jason T. Eberl Essay
7 "The More Complex the Mind, the Greater the Need for Simplicity of Play" Jason T. Eberl Essay
18 Aristotle and James T. Kirk: the Problem of Greatness Jerold J. Abrams Essay
26 The Moral Psychology of a Starship Captain Tim Challans Essay
36 "Make It So": Kant, Confucius, and the Prime Directive Alejandro Bárcenas & Steve Bein Essay
47 Destroying Utopias: Why Kirk is a Jerk David Kyle Johnson Essay
59 "We Are Not Going to Kill Today": Star Trek and the Philosophy of Peace David Boersema Essay
71 Klingons: a Cultural Pastiche Victor Grech Essay
83 The Borg as Contagious Collectivist Techno-Totalitarian Transhumans Dan Dinello Essay
95 Assimilation and Autonomy Barbara Stock Essay
105 Q: A Rude, Interfering, Inconsiderate, Sadistic Pest—on a Quest for Justice? Kyle Alkema & Adam Barkman Essay
115 Federation Trekonomics: Marx, the Federation, and the Shift from Necessity to Freedom Jeff Ewing Essay
127 "The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few": Utilitarianism and Star Trek Greg Littmann Essay
138 Casuistry in the Final Frontier Courtland Lewis Essay
151 "Today Is a Good Day to Die!" Transporters and Human Extinction William Jaworski Essay
162 Two Kirks, Two Rikers Trip McCrossin Essay
172 Data, Kant, and Personhood; or, Why Data Is Not a Toaster Nina Rosenstand Essay
180 Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All Aboard the Enterprise Dennis M. Weiss Essay
190 Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager's Doctor and Seven of Nine Nicole R. Pramik Essay
199 Vision Quest into Indigenous Space Walter Robinson Essay
213 Rethinking the Matter: Organians Are Still Organisms Melanie Johnson-Moxley Essay
223 "In Search of ..." Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and Vulcans James M. Okapal Essay
232 Resistance Is Negligible: In Praise of Cyborgs Lisa Cassidy Essay
243 "Who I Really Am": Odo, Mead, and the Self Pamela JG Boyer Essay
253 Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise's "Cogenitor" and Moral Relativism William A. Lindenmuth Essay
264 Resistance Really Is Futile: On Being Assimilated by Our Own Technology Dena Hurst Essay
275 Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About the True Nature of Reality Dara Fogel Essay
288 Which Spock Is the Real One? Alternate Universes and Identity Andrew Zimmerman Jones Essay
299 "Strangely Compelling": Romanticism in "The City on the Edge of Forever" Sarah O'Hare Essay
308 It Is a Q of Life: Q as a Nietzschean Figure Charles Taliaferro & Bailey Wheelock Essay
315 A God Needs Compassion, but Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist Theology James F. McGrath Essay
326 "The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning": Star Trek's Secular Society Kevin S. Decker Essay
340 Contributors: Federation Ambassadors to Babel uncredited Essay