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Ender's Game and Philosophy : the Logic Gate is Down / edited by Kevin S. Decker.
- Title
- Ender's Game and Philosophy : the Logic Gate is Down / edited by Kevin S. Decker.
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3553.A655 Z59 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Decker, Kevin S.
- Description
- vii, 234 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Explores philosophical questions raised by the well-known novel about young geniuses who are trained to fight a race of invading aliens, covering such issues as the morality of war, the meaning of freedom, and the misuses of power.
- Series Statement
- The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Uniform Title
- Blackwell philosophy and popculture series
- Alternative Title
- Logic gate is down
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "The teachers got me into this": educational skirmishes ... with a pinch of freedom / Cam Cobb -- Illusions of freedom, tragedies of fate: the moral development of Ender Wiggin / Jeremy Proulx -- Xenocide's paradox: the virtue of being Ender / Jeff Ewing -- Teaching to the test: constructing the identity of a space commander / Chad William Timm -- The enemy's gate is down: perspective, empathy, and game theory / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- War games as child's play / Matthew Brophy -- Forming the formless: Sunzi and the military logic of Ender Wiggin / Morgan Deane -- Do good games make good people? / Brendan P. Shea -- Bugger all!: the clash of cultures in Ender's game / Cole Bowman -- Why Ender can't go home: philotic connections and moral responsibility / Brett Chandler Patterson -- Of gods and buggers: friendship in Ender's game / Jeffery L. Nicholas -- "I destroy them": Ender, good intentions, and moral responsibility / Lance Belluomini -- Ender's beginning and the just war / James L. Cook -- "You had to be a weapon, Ender ... We aimed you": moral responsibility in Ender's game / Danielle Wylie -- The unspoken rules of manly warfare: just war theory in Ender's game / Kody W. Cooper -- Locke and Demosthenes: virtually dominating the world / Kenneth Wayne Sayles III -- Ender's dilemma: realism, neoliberalism, and the politics of power / Ted Henry Brown and Christie L. Maloyed -- People are tools / Greg Littmann.
- ISBN
- 9781118386576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1118386574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781118572672 (wol)
- 111857267X (wol)
- 9781118386552 (emobi) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781118386583 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781118572696 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013006641
- OCLC
- 828481937
- SCSB-12561903
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library