1st Edition

Blade Runner

Edited By Amy Coplan, David Davies Copyright 2015
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human beings and ‘replicants’ is blurred, the film raises a host of philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the possibility of moral agency and freedom in ‘created’ life forms, and the... Read more

1. Introduction Amy Coplan and David Davies  2. Elegy in LA: Blade Runner, empathy, and death Berys Gaut  3. ‘More human than human’: Blade Runner and being-toward-death Peter Atterton  4. Replicant love: Blade Runner Voight-Kampffed C. D. C. Reeve  5. Do humans dream of emotional machines? Colin Allen  6. Zhora through the looking-glass: notes on an esper analysis of Leon’s photograph Stephen Mulhall  7. In the mood for thought: mood and meaning in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Amy Coplan  8. Blade Runner and the cognitive values of cinema David Davies.  Index

Biography

Amy Coplan is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, USA. She is the co-editor, with Peter Goldie, of Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (2011).

David Davies is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Art as Performance (2004), Aesthetics and Literature (2007), and Philosophy of the Performing Arts (2011), and editor of The Thin Red Line (Routledge, 2008).