Editing Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There

{{disline|This article describes a book by Jason T. Eberl. For a general analysis of the series's philosophical aspects, see [[Philosophy in Battlestar Galactica]]. For the book from Open Court Publishing, see [[Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?]].}}

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| author= [[Jason T. Eberl]]
| published= January 29, 2008
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'''''Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There''''' ([http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ Blackwell Publishing], December 2007, ISBN 1405178140), edited by philosophy professor [[Jason T. Eberl]], is a collection of several essays dealing with philosophical aspects of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]], and an entry in Blackwell's [http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/seriesbyseries.asp?ref=PPPZ Philosophy and Pop Culture Series].

According to the original call for abstracts, the essays are to be "philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader".<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://webdata.bos.blackwellpublishing.com/Books/bsgcfa.htm|title=Call for Abstracts|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref>

==Contents==

*Giving Thanks to the Lords of Kobol
*“There Are Those Who Believe …”

=====Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets.=====

*[[Erik D. Baldwin]]: "How to be Happy after the End of the World"
**The good Life: Booze, Pills, Hot and Cold running Interns?
**"Be the Best Machines (and Humans) the Universe Has Ever Seen"
**"Be ready to Fight or You Dishonor the Reason Why We're Here"
**"Each of Us Plays a Role. Each Time a Different Role"

*Robert Sharp: "When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising"
**Master Mortality and Slave Mortality
**Escaping Slavery by Creating Souls
**The Spiritual Move from Slave to Equal
**"They Have a Plan"

*J. Robert Loftis: "“What a Strange Little Man”: Baltar the Tyrant?"
**"I Don't Have to Listen. I'm the President"
**"Are You Alive?"

*[[Jason P. Blahuta]]: "The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet"
**"We're in the Middle of a War, and You 're Taking Orders from a Schoolteacher?"
**"While the Chain of Command is Strict, It is Not Heartless, And Neither Am I"
**Helo's Halo: Can Genocide Ever be Justified?
**"It's Not Enough to Survive. One Has to be Worthy of Surviving"

=====I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?.=====
*[[Robert Arp]] and Tracie Mahaffey: “And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons"
**Cylons and the Capacity for Reason
**Cylons and Mental States
**Cylons and Language
**Cylons and Social Relationships
**Do We Have a Plan?

*Amy Kind:" “I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon”: The Identity of Cylons"
**“We Must Survive, and We Will Survive”—But How?
**“Death Becomes a Learning Experience”
**“I Am Sharon and That’s Part of What You Need to Understand”
**“It’s Not Enough Just to Survive”—Or Is It?

*[[Jerold J. Abrams]]: "Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War"
**"A Holdover from the Cylon Wars"
**The Resurrection Ship
**The Limit on Cylon Intelligence
**"The Cylons Send No One"
**"The Shape of Things to Come"

*[[Brian Willems]]: "When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death"
**"One Must Die to Know the truth"
**"Prayer to the Cloud of Unknowing"
**Bored, as in Really Bored
**The Boxing of D'Anna Biers

=====Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons.=====
*Randall M. Jensen: "The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few"
**Should We Stay or Should We Go Now?
**Frak the Numbers!
**Saving Starbuck?
**The Mark of Cain
**"Evil Men in the Gardens of Paradise?"
**Sacrifice

*Andrew Terjesen: "Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?"
**"A More Meaningful Impact"
**"Desperate People Take Desperate Measures"
**"An Extention of the Cylons' Corporeal Authority"
**"We're Gonna Be There, Tyin' the Knots, Makin''em Tight"
**"A New Day Requires New Thinking"

*[[George A. Dunn]]: "Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil"
**"Red, You 're an Evil Cylon"
**"You Can't Fight Destiny"—or Can You?
**Manichaean "Sleeper Agents"
**"A Broken Machine Who thinks She's Human"
**Will the Real Boomer Please Stand Up?
**"We Should Just Go Our Seperate Ways"

*David Roden: "Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice"
**"How Is That Fair?
**How Is That in Any Way Fair?"
**"We Make Our Own Lawa Now, Our Own Justice"
**"The Shape of Things to Come"

=====The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home.=====

*[[Jason T. Eberl]] and Jennifer A. Vines: "“I Am an Instrument of God”: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning"
**"A Rational Universe Explained Through Rational Means"
**"That Is Sin. That is Evil. And You Are Evil"
**"You Have a Gift, Kara... And I'm Not Gonna Let You Piss That Away"
**"The Gods Shall Lift Those Who Lift Each Other"
**"you Have to Believe in Something"

*Taneli Kukkonen: "God against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies"
**"If This Is the Work of a Higher Power, Then They Have One Hell of a Sense of Humor"
**"I Am God"
**Giving Oneself Over to God
**"Could There Be A Connection... ?"

*David Kyle Johnson: "“A Story That Is Told Again, and Again, and Again”: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom"
**"We Are All Playing Our Parts"
**"God Has a Plan for You, Gaius"
**"Out of the Box Is Where I Live"
**"It's Time to Make Your Choice"

*Eric J. Silverman:  "Adama’s True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge"
**"You 're Right. There's No Earth. It's All a Legend"
**"I'm Not a Cylon!... Maybee, But We Just Can't Take That Chance"
**"You Have to Have Something to Live For. Let it be Earth"

=====Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives.=====

*James McRae: "Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance"
**"Life is a Testament to Pain": Suffering, Ignorance, and Interdependent Arising
**"All of This Has Happened Before...": Karma and Rebirth
**"God Has a Plan for You, Gaius": Relegion, God and KenDsis
**"How Could Anyone Fall in Love with a Toaster?" Cylons as Persons?

*Elizabeth F. Cooke: "“Let It Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope"
**Peirce and Adama: Hopeful Pragmatism
**James and Roslin: Religious Hope
**Apollo and Tyrol: Social Hope
**Hope vs. Fear
**"A Flawed Creation"

*Sarah Conly: "Is Starbuck a Woman?"
**Sarah Conly
**What Is a Woman?
**"I Am a Viper Pilot"
**But Aren't Men and Women Different?
**Crossroads

*David Koepsell: "Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation"<ref name="GWC">{{cite web|url=http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showpost.php?p=12368&postcount=17 |title=Cylons in America |date=November 2007 |accessdate=28 January 2007 |last=PhilosopherJedi |first= |format= |language= }}</ref>
**The Fall of Baltar
**The Transhuman Temptation... Really!
**The First and Last Temptations of Baltar
**"There Must Be Some Way Out of Here"

===== =====
*There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors
*The Fleet’s Manifest

== See also ==

* [[:Media:The Identity of Cylons.pdf|"'I'm Sharon, but a Different Kind of Sharon': The Identity of Cylons"]], by Amy Kind. An essay from the book provided by [[Jason T. Eberl]].

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