哲學與 Star Trek - 星際爭霸戰

今天才知道美國 Georgetown University 有過開一門課

PHIL-180 Philosophy and Star Trek

http://courses.georgetown.edu/?CourseID=PHIL-180

三學分。

開課教授：Wetzel, Linda

Star Trek is very philosophical. What better way, then,
to do philosophy, but to watch Star Trek, read philosophy and
hash it all out in class (and on Blackboard)? That’s the plan.
This course will center on topics in metaphysics that come up again and
again in Star Trek. In conjunction with watching Star Trek,
we will read excerpts from the writings of great philosophers,
extract key concepts and arguments and then analyze those arguments.
Questions we will wrestle with include:

I. Is time travel possible? Could you go back and kill your grandmother?
What is time?
II. What is the relation between your mind and your brain
--are they separate items or identical?
Can persons survive death? Could a machine someday think?
Is Data a person?
III. What is a person? Must you have the same body to be you?
Same memories? When do we have one person,
and when do we have two (think of the episodes where people
"split" or "fuse").
IV. Do you have free will, or are you determined by the laws
of nature to do exactly what you wind up doing
(while believing you have free will)? Or both? What is freewill?

Text: Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings,
2nd ed., Ed. by Hoy & Oaklander (Wadsworth, 2005).
Three short papers, and one presentation or debate.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: One of PHIL 010, 020, 098, or 099.

找不到上課的講義。

有人知道這些題目那幾集有討論到嗎？

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