Introduction
1. Truth
Arrival
Anatomy of a Fall
2. Skepticism
The Matrix
Inception
3. Personal Identity
Memento
The Time Traveler’s Wife
4. The Mind-Body Problem
Get Out
Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
5. Artificial Intelligence
Her
Ex Machina
6. Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Beautiful Boy
7. Ethics
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Gone Baby Gone
8. Political Philosophy
Equilibrium
Divergent
9. Philosophy of Religion
A Serious Man
Silence
10. The Meaning of Life
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ad Astra.
Notes
Readings from Primary Sources
Index
Biography
Amy Karofsky is Professor of Philosophy at Hofstra University. She is the author of A Case for Necessitarianism (Routledge, 2022).
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