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Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction
John Martin Fischer
Ruth Curl
Sylwia Wilczewska
Marcin Iwanicki
(transl. Sylwia Wilczewska, Marcin Iwanicki)
Abstract
Translation: „Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction”, in: John Martin Fischer, Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 93–101.
Science fiction is often described as a literary genre well suited to philosophical speculation. SF and philosophy share a common interest in the question of immortality, and comparisons and contrasts can be made regarding their respective treatments of the theme. We propose here a sketch of a taxonomy of different models or pictures of immortality offered by philosophers and SF writers. After noting important difference in these models, we suggest that some problems and concerns expressed by philosophers and SF writers alike are the result of conflating different models. It is our hope that these comparisons provide a preliminary sense of the way SF can be said to function as philosophical discourse.
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immortality, philosophical models of immortality, science fictionDetails
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