In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux
addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws
in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor,
he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in
which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that
may attend the world in which the tale takes place, and fiction
outside-science, the literary concept he fashions in this book, a
fiction in which science becomes impossible. With its
investigations of the philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Popper,
Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction broadens the inquiry that
Meillassoux began in After Finitude, thinking through the concrete
possibilities and consequences of a chaotic world in which human
beings can no longer resort to science to ground their existence.
It is a significant milestone in the work of an emerging
philosopher, which will appeal to readers of both philosophy and
literature. The text is followed by Isaac Asimov's essay "The
Billiard Ball."
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