The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates

Overview:

• Title: The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates
• Author: Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl
• Year: 2016
• ISBN-10: 9781119146001
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Pages: ix+358
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Non-fiction
• Title Reference: The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates
• Notes: Printing line has "1 2016" suggesting either 1st printing or January 2016 printing. "This edition first published 2016". William Irwin is the series editor. No credit for cover design or image. No price listed, sticker for Canadian price of $19.95. The essays are divided into different sections: - Alpha Quadrant: Home Systems p. 5 - Beta Quadrant: Dangerous Rivalries p. 69 - Delta Quadrant: Questing for Home p. 149 - Gamma Quadrant: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations p. 211 - Beyond the Galactic Barrier: The Future as the Final Frontier p. 273 The Contents is sub-titled 'Voyaging Defiantly through the Philosophical Galaxy'. There is introductory material - 'Acknowledgments: The Command Staff of Utopia Planita' on p. ix and an index on pp. 349-358 which are left out of the Contents. The essay on the contributing authors ('Contributors: Federation Ambassadors to Babel') may contain fictitious material. The following titles contain italics: '"We Are Not Going to Kill Today": Star Trek and the Philosophy of Peace', '"The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few": Utilitarianism and Star Trek', 'Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All Aboard the Enterprise', 'Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager's Doctor and Seven of Nine', 'Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise's "Cogenitor" and Moral Relativism', 'Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About the True Nature of Reality', 'A God Needs Compassion, but Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist Theology' and '"The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning": Star Trek's Secular Society'