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Transporters and identity

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

As I’ll be teaching Philosophy in Science Fiction in the Fall, you’ll be getting more of these. Chaospet has a nice little bit on Trek-style transporters and worries about personal identity here.

Playing existential detective

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

I finally got around to seeing I ♥ Huckabees. It was mostly just kind of silly, with a few good moments (my favorite is noted below). But it was a reminder of the kind of thoughts and concerns that students bring to philosophy classes that we mainstream teachers of philosophy don’t address so [...]