Ebook: Battlestar Galactica and philosophy: knowledge here begins out there

Opening the ancient scrolls : classic philosophers as colonial prophets -- How to be happy after the end of the world / Erik D. Baldwin -- When machines get souls : Nietzsche on the cylon uprising / Robert Sharp -- "What a strange little man" : Baltar the Tyrant? / J. Robert Loftis -- The politics of crisis : Machiavelli in the colonial fleet / Jason P. Blahuta -- I, Cylon : are toasters people, too? -- "And they have a plan" : cylons as persons / Robert Arp and Tracie Mahaffey -- "I'm Sharon, but I'm a different Sharon" : the identity of cylons / Amy Kind -- Embracing the "children of humanity" : how to prevent the next cylon war / Jerold J. Abrams -- When the non-human knows its own death / Brian Willems -- Worthy of survival : moral issues for colonials and cylons -- The search for Starbuck : the needs of the many vs. the few / Randall M. Jensen -- Resistance vs. collaboration on New Caprica : what would you do? / Andrew Terjesen -- Being Boomer : identity, alienation, and evil / George A. Dunn -- Cylons in the original position : limits of posthuman justice / David Roden -- The arrow, the eye, and earth : the search for a (divine?) home -- "I am an instrument of God" : religious belief, atheism, and meaning / Jason T. Eberl and Jennifer A. Vines -- God against the gods : faith and the exodus of the twelve colonies / Taneli Kukkonen -- "A story that is told again, and again, and again" : recurrence, providence, and freedom / David Kyle Johnson -- Adama's true lie : earth and the problem of knowledge / Eric J. Silverman -- Sagittarons, capricans, and gemenese : different worlds, different perspectives -- Zen and the art of cylon maintenance / James McRae -- "Let it be earth" : the pragmatic virtue of hope / Elizabeth F. Cooke -- Is Starbuck a woman? / Sarah Conly -- Gaius Baltar and the transhuman temptation / David Koepsell.;This thought-provoking book examines the philosophical issues arising from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, revealing how the ragtag fleet's outward journey to Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers.