The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
| Editor | William Irwin |
| Publisher | Open Court, Carus Publishing Company |
| Format | Paperback |
| Location | U.S.A. |
| Copyright | 2002 |
| Pages / Font | 280 pages |
| ISBN | 0 8126 9501 1 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | PN1997.M395 M38 2002 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 791.43'72-dc21 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 2002029041 |
| Chapters | Acknowledgements Introduction: Meditations on The Matrix Scene 1: How Do You Know? 1. Computers, Caves, and Oracles: Neo and Socrates by William Irwin 2. Skepticism, Morality, and The Matrix by Gerald J. Erion and Barry Smith 3. The Matrix Possibility by David Mitsuo Nixon 4. Seeing, Believing, Touching, Truth by Carolyn Korsmeyer Scene 2: The Desert of the Real 5. The Metaphysics of The Matrix by Jorge J.E. Gracia and Jonathan J. Sanford 6. The Machine-Made Ghost: Or, The Philosophy of Mind, Matrix Style by Jason Holt 7. Neo-Materialism and the Death of the Subject by Daniel Barwick 8. Fate, Freedom, and Foreknowledge by Theodore Schick, Jr. Scene 3: Down the Rabbit Hole of Ethics and Religion 9. There is No Spoon: A Buddhist Mirror by Michael Brannigan 10. The Religion of The Matrix and the Problems of Pluralism by Gregory Bassham 11. Happiness and Cypher's Choice: Is Ignorance Bliss? by Charles L. Griswold, Jr. 12. We Are (the) One! Kant Explains How to Manipulate the Matrix by James Lawler Scene 4: Virtual Themes 13. Notes from Underground: Nihilism and The Matrix by Thomas S. Hibbs 14. Popping a Bitter Pill: Existential Authenticity in The Matrix and Nausea by Jennifer L. McMahon 15. The Paradox of Real Response to Neo-Fiction by Sarah E. Worth 16. Real Genre and Virtual Philosophy by Deborah Knight and George McKnight Scene 5: De-Construct-ing The Matrix 17. Penetrating Keanu: New Holes, but the Same Old Shit by Cynthia Freeland 18. The Matrix, Marx, and the Coppertop's Life by Martin A. Danahay and David Rieder 19. The Matrix Simulation and the Postmodern Age by David Weberman 20. The Matrix: Or, The Two Sides of Perversion by Slavoj Zizek The Potentials The Oracle's Index |
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