<p><span>Join an award-winning philosopher on an intellectual journey through time and space as you experience dozens of intriguing science fiction stories in film and TV.</span></p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Inception and the Interpretation of Art
- 02: The Matrix and the Value of Knowledge
- 03: The Matrix Sequels and Human Free Will
- 04: The Adjustment Bureau, the Force, and Fate
- 05: Contact: Science versus Religion
- 06: Arrival: Aliens and Radical Translation
- 07: Interstellar: Is Time Travel Possible?
- 08: Doctor Who and Time Travel Paradoxes
- 09: Star Trek: TNG and Alternate Worlds
- 10: Dark City, Dollhouse, and Personal Identity
- 11: Westworld and A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- 12: Transcendence and the Dangers of AI
- 13: The Thirteenth Floor: Are We Simulated?
- 14: The Orville, Orwell, and the "Black Mirror"
- 15: Star Wars: Good versus Evil
- 16: Firefly, Blake’s 7, and Political Rebellion
- 17: Starship Troopers, Doctor Who, and Just War
- 18: The Prime Directive and Postcolonialism
- 19: Capitalism in Metropolis, Elysium, and Panem
- 20: Snowpiercer and Climate Change
- 21: Soylent Green: Overpopulation and Euthanasia
- 22: Gattaca and the Ethics of Reproduction
- 23: The Handmaid’s Tale: Feminism and Religion
- 24: Kubrick’s 2001 and Nietzsche’s Ubermensch
Taught by
David K. Johnson
