Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am (Paperback)

Introduction: The Rise of the Philosophers.

I. LIFE AFTER HUMANITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Chapter 1: The Terminator Wins: Is the Extinction of the Human Race the End of People, or Just the Beginning? (Greg Littmann).

Chapter 2: True Man or Tin Man? How Descartes and Sarah Connor Tell a Man from a Machine (George Dunn).

Chapter 3: It Stands to Reason: Skynet and Self-Preservation (Josh Weisberg).

Chapter 4: Un-Terminated: The Integration of the Machines (Jesse W. Butler).

II. WOMEN AND REVOLUTIONARIES.

Chapter 5: "I Know Now Why You Cry": Terminator 2, Moral Philosophy, and Feminism (Harry Chotiner).

Chapter 6: Sarah Connor’s Stain (Jennifer Culver).

Chapter 7: James Cameron’s Marxist Revolution (Jeffrey Ewing).

III. CHANGING WHAT’S ALREADY HAPPENED.

Chapter 8: Bad Timing: The Metaphysics of The Terminator (Robert Delfino and Kenneth Sheahan).

Chapter 9: Time for the Terminator: Philosophical Themes of the Resistance (Justin Leiber).

Chapter 10: Changing the Future: Fate and the Terminator (Kristie Lynn Miller).

Chapter 11: Judgment Day is Inevitable: Hegel and the Futility of Changing History (Jason Blahuta).

IV. THE ETHICS OF TERMINATION.

Chapter 12: What’s So Terrible About Judgment Day? (Wayne Yuen).

Chapter 13: The War to End All Wars? Killing Your Defense System (Phillip Seng).

Chapter 14: Self-Termination: Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and the Terminator (Daniel P. Malloy).

Chapter 15: What’s So Bad about Being Terminated (Jason T. Eberl).

Chapter 16: Should John Connor Save the World? (Peter Fosl).

V. BEYOND THE NEURAL NET.

Chapter 17: "You Gotta Listen to How People Talk": Machines and Natural Language (Jacob Berger and Kyle Ferguson).

Chapter 18: Terminating Ambiguity: The Perplexing Case of "The" (Richard Brown).

Chapter 19: Wittgenstein and What’s Inside the Terminator’s Head (Antti Kuusela).

Future Leaders of the Resistance.

Skynet’s Database.

Index.