Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy

<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>

• 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