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Widely acclaimed upon its release as a future classic, Denis
Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is visually stunning,
philosophically profound, and a provocative extension of the story
in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Containing specially commissioned
chapters by a roster of international contributors, this
fascinating collection explores philosophical questions that abound
in Blade Runner 2049, including: What distinguishes the
authentically "human" person? How might natality condition one's
experience of being-in-the-world? How might shared memories feature
in the constitution of personal identities? What happens when
created beings transcend the limits intended in their design? What
(if anything) is it like to be a hologram? Can artificial beings
participate in genuinely romantic relationships? How might
developing artificial economics impact our behaviour as prosumers?
What are the implications of techno-human enhancement in an era of
surveillance capitalism? Including a foreword by Denis Villeneuve,
Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration is essential reading
for anyone interested in philosophy, film studies, philosophy of
mind, psychology, gender studies, and conceptual issues in
cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
Widely acclaimed upon its release as a future classic, Denis
Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is visually stunning,
philosophically profound, and a provocative extension of the story
in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Containing specially commissioned
chapters by a roster of international contributors, this
fascinating collection explores philosophical questions that abound
in Blade Runner 2049, including: What distinguishes the
authentically "human" person? How might natality condition one's
experience of being-in-the-world? How might shared memories feature
in the constitution of personal identities? What happens when
created beings transcend the limits intended in their design? What
(if anything) is it like to be a hologram? Can artificial beings
participate in genuinely romantic relationships? How might
developing artificial economics impact our behaviour as prosumers?
What are the implications of techno-human enhancement in an era of
surveillance capitalism? Including a foreword by Denis Villeneuve,
Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration is essential reading
for anyone interested in philosophy, film studies, philosophy of
mind, psychology, gender studies, and conceptual issues in
cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
Alongside existing research into the social, political and economic
impacts of the Web, there is a need to study the Web from a
cognitive and epistemic perspective. This is particularly so as new
and emerging technologies alter the nature of our interactive
engagements with the Web, transforming the extent to which our
thoughts and actions are shaped by the online environment. Situated
and ecological approaches to cognition are relevant to
understanding the cognitive significance of the Web because of the
emphasis they place on forces and factors that reside at the level
of agent-world interactions. In particular, by adopting a situated
or ecological approach to cognition, we are able to assess the
significance of the Web from the perspective of research into
embodied, extended, embedded, social and collective cognition. The
results of this analysis help to reshape the interdisciplinary
configuration of Web Science, expanding its theoretical and
empirical remit to include the disciplines of both cognitive
science and the philosophy of mind. Minds Online: The Interface
between Web Science, Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind
heeds the call of the early Web Science pioneers by expanding the
interdisciplinary scope of Web Science, specifically, to
accommodate the disciplines of cognitive science and the philosophy
of mind. There is a substantial literature to support this
expansionist agenda. Given the centrality of cognition to our
species-specific capabilities, as well as the level of public and
scientific interest in the Web, now is arguably an appropriate time
to review this literature and explicate the nature of the linkages
that connect the science of the Web with the sciences of the mind.
With Different Eyes began as as a series of newspaper stories in
the late winter of 2020 when the coronavirus began to spread. The
author Paul Smart, a veteran Hudson Valley journalist of 30-plus
years, reported on the unfolding pandemic. A temporary lockdown,
New York on Pause, workers sent home. Schools closed &
playgrounds taped off. Vicious politics and then George Floyd was
murdered. Protests spread, met by an increasingly belligerent
institutional response. Violence spiraled as Trump doubled down on
his bid for reelection. Through it all, Smart looks deep into his
own bereavement for recently-passed parents, even as the lockdown
seemed to offer refuge as well as the hope for real change—an
epochal forbearance. In turn, Richard Kroehling, filmmaker,
installation artist, and the co-maker of With Different Eyes,
started painting, playing with images. He dove into his own stew of
loss, regret, and undiminished hopes, even as the national angst
deepened his visual take. He shared his evolving imagescape with
his longtime friend, who was simultaneously sharing his blog
entries. Thus this book arose out of friendship, which proves the
glue that makes this work cohere in spite of all.
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