Futurama and Philosophy

Futurama and Philosophy

Futurama and Philosophy

Futurama and Philosophy

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Overview

Futurama is a quirky, animated sitcom created by Simpson’s mastermind Matt Groening. Since it first aired on the FOX network from 1999 to 2003, its many dedicated fans have created websites and newsletters and organized Comic-Con meetups and letter-writing campaigns in hopes of learning the further adventures of its stars. In 2009 Futurama announced new episodes and returned to Comedy Central. Futurama and Philosophy meets this new surge of interest, letting philosophers and Futurama fans compare notes about time travel, alternate universes, evolution, artificial intelligence, and the ethical dilemmas of suicide booths, “mad” scientists like Farnsworth, and robots like Bender who aspire to bad taste. Would “interplanetary golf” really be possible? Why is it that a fossilized dog is really “man’s best friend”? What is going on inside Dr. Zoidberg’s Freedom Lesson? Fans of the show and those who appreciate the cosmic, existential framework in which it exists gain much from this intriguing book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812698336
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date: 11/05/2013
Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Courtland Lewis is currently teaching philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a visiting assistant professor and has taught at the University of Tennessee, Pellissippi State Community College, and South College.

Shaun P. Young is Senior Policy Associate at the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation at the University of Toronto. He's also a sessional lecturer at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is the author or editor of four books and fourteen journal articles in the fields of political philosophy and public policy.

Table of Contents

Onwards and Upwards … to the Futurama! Courtland Lewis Shaun P. Young vii

This Week on All My Circuits … 1

1 Zoidberg's Freedom Lesson Joseph J. Foy Timothy M. Dale 3

2 Slurm, Worms, and Jacking On Shaun P. Young 13

3 Futurama and the Economy of Trash Jason Buchanan 23

4 Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War Daniel P. Malloy 33

The Scary Door of Self and Existence 43

5 Sexlexia and Other Sexy Learning Disabilities Jerry Piven 45

6 Good Old Bender! Ryan Jenkins 59

7 We're Gathered to Remember Courtland Lewis 69

8 Can There Be a Fate Worse than Death? Heather Salazar 77

9 Fry's Brain Thing Charlene Elsby 89

Aliens, Robots, and Mutants … Oh My! 99

10 Moral and Immoral Robots Curtis D. Von Gunten 101

11 Pop a Poppler? Greg Ahrenhoerster Joseph J. Foy 113

12 Kiss My Shiny Metal Autonomy Deborah Pless 125

Good News Everyone, it's Time 137

13 On Becoming Your Own Grandfather Dan Burkett 139

14 Room for God in Futurama? John M. DePoe 149

15 On Bendered Knees Nicholas A. Oschman 159

16 Go Upgrade Yourself Damten Patrick Williams 171

17 A Billion Years Late for Dinner Karl Laderoute 183

Morbo Demands More Futurama 195

18 The Evil that Brains Do Joshua Mills-Knutsen 197

19 Queer Eye for the Robot Kind Brian Onishi 207

20 Mutate! Mutate! Mutate! James Reitter 217

21 Fry, Windmills Don't Work that Way!! Travis Taft 227

22 Hegel and the Phenomenology of Futurama James J. Micic 239

23 It's Only Sane to Hide the Body in Your Mattress Russell Hamer 245

Futurama Episodes, Writers, and Voice Actors 255

The Twenty-First-Century Planet Express Crew 263

Index 269

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