Bøger af Courtland Lewis

Cuando creó "Futurama", Matt Groening solo pretendía satirizar las convenciones de la ciencia ficción. Pero sus aventuras siderales y metafísicas de humanos, robots, especies que existían antes del tiempo y lagartos humanoides nos brindan la posibilidad de entender nuestro mundo. Y otros mundos. Incluso el universo. ¿Afirmaría Rousseau que, a pesar de la adicción de Fry al Slurm o la de Bender a enchufarse, son sujetos libres? ¿Cuando Zoidberg se come la bandera de la Tierra y ofende a tantos extraterrestres está ejerciendo su legítimo derecho a la libertad de expresión? ¿Son los robots como Bender, Pinzas o Calculón tan responsables de sus actos como los humanos? ¿Es amor verdadero el que de repente siente Leela por Fry, cuando el cuerpo de este es invadido por lombrices que modifican su comportamiento? La serie, como este libro, es una divertidísima invitación a debatir cuestiones filosóficas actuales y universales. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Good news everyone! A billion years late and right on time, here's Futurama and Philosophy. Now at least you can activate your pleasure unit by jacking on to the universe's deep thought generator! This may be counter-indicated by your operations manual and denounced by Fathers Against Rude Television but at least it won't make you your own grandfather. And according to the Hypnotoad...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

In Zir travels through space and time, the Doctor has to solve numerous amazing problems, many of which have applications to our everyday lives. This book, written by one of the Doctor’s biggest fans, explores the Doctor's distinctive view of life, ethical, spiritual, and scientific after centuries of regeneration. As a Time Lord, the Doctor is bound by the universal code of noninterference in the lives of different species on different planets. Zir finds that non-interference can be disastrous--but because of free will and unpredictability, interference can bring about calamitous consequences. Lewis probes deeper into how the Doctor copes with this harsh dilemma in different episodes of the show, and how these experiences went on to shape the unique personalities of Doctor Who. The Doctor never has any doubts about Zir own identity. Yet the various regenerations have distinctly different personalities, and some regenerations are forgotten. The Doctor raises in acute form the philosophical issue of what constitutes personal identity: who are we at our core? Join us as we dart among the stars, exploring the philosophical theories and questions of personal identity, free will, individuality, regeneration and fate.