Thinking Through Film : Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies (Paperback)

Preface vii

Acknowledgments x

Part I Philosophy and Film 1

1 Why Film and Philosophy? 3

2 Philosophy and Film Spectatorship 23

Part II Epistemology and Metaphysics 47

3 Knowing What's What in Total Recall 49

4 Ontology and The Matrix 65

5 It's All in the Mind: AI Artifi cial Intelligence and Robot Love 79

6 La Jetée and the Promise of Time Travel 98

Part III The Human Condition 113

7 Fate and Choice: The Philosophy of Minority Report 115

8 Personal Identity: The Case of Memento 132

9 The Spectacle of Horror: Funny Games 147

10 Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places: Ikiru ("To Live") 170

Part IV Ethics and Values 189

11 Crimes and Misdemeanors and the Fragility of Moral Motivation 191

12 The Lives of Others: Moral Luck and Regret 209

13 The Dark Knight: Batman on Deontology and Consequentialism 228

14 Dangerous Childhood: La Promesse and the Possibility of Virtue 245

Index 265