Philosophy and The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: Ethics. 'Eat Me': Vegetarianism and Consenting Animals / B.Saunders & E.Harding ; Mostly Harmless? Hitchhiker's and the Ethics of Entertainment / N.Joll.
- PART II: The meaning of life. Life, the Universe, and Absurdity / A.Kind ; The Wowbagger Case: Immortality and What Makes Life Meaningful / T.Chappell.
- PART III: Metaphysics and artificial intelligence. 'I Think You Ought To Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed': Marvin and Artificial Intelligence / J.Goodenough ; From Deep Thought to Digital Metaphysics / B.Dainton.
- PART IV: Logic, method, and satire. 'God . . Promptly Vanishes in a Puff of Logic' / M.Friend ; The Judo Principle, Philosophical Method, and the Logic of Jokes / A.Aberdein ; The Funniest of All Improbable Worlds - Hitchhiker's as Philosophical Satire / A.Pawlak & N.Joll.