s1 6"x9"; 280 pages; Volume 3 in the series, Popular Culture and Philosophy; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: Introduction: Meditations on The Matrix; Computers, Caves, and Oracles: Neo and Socrates by William Irvin; Skepticism, Morality, and The Matrix by Gerald J. Erion and Barry Smith; The Matrix Possibility by David Mitsuo Nixon; Seeing, Believing, Touching, Truth by Carolyn Korsmeyer; The Metaphysics of The Matrix by Jorge J. E. Gracia and Jonathan J. Sanford; The Machine Made Ghost: Or, The Philosophy of Mind, Matrix Style by Jason Holt; Neo Materialism and the Death of the Subject by Daniel Barwick; Fate, Freedom, and Foreknowledge by Theodore Schick, Jr.; There is No Spoon: A Buddhist Mirror by Michael Brannigan; The Religion of The Matrix and the Problems of Pluralism by Gregory Bassham; Happiness and Cyphers Choice: Is Ignorance Bliss? by Charles L. Griswold, Jr.; We Are (the) One! Kant Explains How to Manipulate the Matrix by James Lawler; Notes from Underground Nihilism and The Matrix by Thomas S. Hibbs; Popping a Bitter Pill: Existential Authenticity in The Matrix and Nausea by Jennifer L. McMahon; The Paradox of Real Response to Neo Fiction by Sarah E. Worth; Real Genre and Virtual Philosophy by Deborah Knight and George McKnight; Penetrating Keanu: New Holes, but the Same Old Shit by Cynthia Freeland; The Matrix, Marx, and the Coppertops Life by Martin A. Danahay and David Rieder; The Matrix Simulation and the Postmodern Age by David Weberman; The Matrix: Or, The Two Sides of Perversion by Slavoj Zizek; The Potentials; The Oracles Index.

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Title

The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Popular Culture and Philosophy, Volume 3)

Publisher

Open Court, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

081269502X

ISBN 13

9780812695021

Binding

Soft cover

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers who created The Simpsons and Philosophy discuss different facets of the primary philosophical puzzle of The Matrix: Can we be sure the world is really there, and if not, what should we do about it? Other chapters address issues of religion, lifestyle, pop culture, the Zeitgeist, the nature of mind and matter, and the reality of fiction.

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Is the world around us truly as it appears or are we inert bodies in tanks, our brains subjected to electronic stimulation creating a make-believe world of hallucination? The Keanu Reeves cult sci-fi movie, The Matrix, vividly conveyed the excitement and the horror of a fake world made of nothing but perceptions, substituting for a real world of grim despair. Since The Matrix is probably the most overtly philosophical movie ever to have come out of Hollywood it has popularised issues on which philosophers have a lot to say. The Matrix and Philosophy is from the same team of cool, capable, young philosophers who created The Simpsons and Philosophy, which redefined the market for a work by serious philosophers. It has 20 new, thoughtful essays on philosophical problems raised by The Matrix, many of which focus on the issues "Can we be sure the world is really there, and if not, what should we do about it?" The book also explores other philosophical puzzles including ethical ones like Cypher's decision to choose a pleasurable fake world over a wretched real one.

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