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Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There

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:''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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| 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==
*[[Erik D. Baldwin]]: "How to be Happy after the End of the World"
*Robert Sharp: "When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising"
*J. Robert Loftis: "“What a Strange Little Man”: Baltar the Tyrant?"
*[[Jason P. Blahuta]]: "The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet"
*[[Robert Arp]]: “And They Have a Plan”: Cylons as Persons"
*Tracie Mahaffey
*Amy Kind:" “I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon”: The Identity of Cylons"
*[[Jerold J. Abrams]]: "Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War"
*[[Brian Willems]]: "When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death"
*Randall M. Jensen: "The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few"
*Andrew Terjesen: "Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?"
*[[George A. Dunn]]: "Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil"
*David Roden: "Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice"
*[[Jason T. Eberl]] "“I Am an Instrument of God”: Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning"
*Jennifer A. Vines
*Taneli Kukkonen: "God against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies"
*David Kyle Johnson: "“A Story That Is Told Again, and Again, and Again”: Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom"
*Eric J. Silverman: "Adama’s True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge"
*James McRae: "Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance"
*Elizabeth F. Cooke: "“Let It Be Earth”: The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope"
*Sarah Conly: "Is Starbuck a Woman?"
*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>

== 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 [http://www.bestessays.co.uk/ essay] from the book provided by [[Jason T. Eberl]].

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