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Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)
Terminator and Philosophy I'll Be Back Therefore I Am - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Author:William Irwin, Richard Brown, Kevin S. Decker "The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present." — --The Terminator (1984) Terminator is among the most popular sci-fi storylines and movie franchises ever created. A te... more »rminator--a seemingly unstoppable cyborg assassin--is sent back from the future by a race of artificially intelligent computer-controlled machines bent on the extermination of the human race. Terminator and Philosophy will look at the philosophically puzzling questions about the grandfather paradox and whether or not we can change our future by killing Sarah Connor, the ethics of war and artificial intelligence, saving John Connor and causality, John Connor and the Terminator as a father figure, and much more.« less