The Philosophy of Ted Chiang
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Product details:
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 29 May 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031816611
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Illustrations, black & white 700
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Short description:
Ted Chiang is one of the most insightful science fiction writers of our time. His writing has garnered high praise, including four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His short story, ?Story of Your Life,? was the basis of the 2016 film Arrival. This volume, which includes a foreword by Chiang and twenty-one short essays by philosophers, analyzes the philosophical significance of Chiang?s popular science fiction. These essays discuss how Chiang?s stories engage with age-old and contemporary philosophical questions pertaining to free will, God, technology, existentialism, beauty, procreation, contradictions, time, human intelligence, alien intelligence, and artificial intelligence. This volume probes terrain that should be of interest to experts in philosophy, while still being accessible to a general audience interested in science fiction. These essays, like Ted Chiang?s writing, demonstrate how excellent science fiction can help us to think about the world and our place in it.
David Friedell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Union College (Schenectady, NY). His work has appeared in journals including Philosophical Studies, Analysis, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Long description:
Ted Chiang is one of the most insightful science fiction writers of our time. His writing has garnered high praise, including four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His short story, ?Story of Your Life,? was the basis of the 2016 film Arrival. This volume, which includes a foreword by Chiang and twenty-one short essays by philosophers, analyzes the philosophical significance of Chiang?s popular science fiction. These essays discuss how Chiang?s stories engage with age-old and contemporary philosophical questions pertaining to free will, God, technology, existentialism, beauty, procreation, contradictions, time, human intelligence, alien intelligence, and artificial intelligence. This volume probes terrain that should be of interest to experts in philosophy, while still being accessible to a general audience interested in science fiction. These essays, like Ted Chiang?s writing, demonstrate how excellent science fiction can help us to think about the world and our place in it.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I. Free Will.- 1. Why the Market Value of Free Will is $99.99.- 2. Many-worlds and Free Will.- Part II. God.- 3. Death, God, and Meaning in Ted Chiang’s Stories.- 4. The Presence of Evil and the Absence of God.- 5. Gabe Rabin, Mysterious Ways: Making Sense of God’s Actions in Hell Is the Absence of God. Part III. Technology.- 6. The Value of Fact and Feeling.- 7. We Can Remember It for You Better: Ted Chiang on Technology and Human Knowledge.- Part IV. Existentialism.- 8. How to Live With Freedom.- 9. Existential Responsibility in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Chiang.- Part V. Beauty.- 10. Just Looking: Check Out the Computational Topography on Her!.- 11. Should You Like What You See? Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Appreciation of Human Beauty.- Part VI. Procreation Ethics.- 12. The Ethics of Making a Short Life.- Part VII. Contradictions.- 13. Knowledge, Symbols, and Understanding.- 14. Choosing What’s Fictionally True.- Part VIII. Time.- 15. Time Machines and Predictors are Possible but Unlikely.- 16. The Temporality of Our Emotions and Time in Ted Chiang’s Stories.- Part IX. Human and Alien Intelligence.- 17. Language, Thought, Experience, and Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”.- 18. Jeopardy! and the Stories of Our Lives.- 19. What Is It to Understand Enlightenment?.- Part X. Artificial Intelligence.- 20. Raising an AI Teenager.- 21. Save the Digients! On the Moral Status of AI.
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