Philip K. Dick and Philosophy

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by D. E. Wittkower


  Alternate Realities?

  Back to Earth

  Chapter 14 - Trauma of the Real

  Breakthrough to the Real

  Reality Is Not Real

  Procession of Dummies

  Remembrance of Being, Passed

  Chapter 15 - Lies, Incorporated

  The Epistemology of Deception

  How Do We Get Deceived?

  Who Deceives Us?

  Circles within Circles

  Self-Deception

  How Can We Detect Deception?

  Chapter 16 - The Blob Necessitates

  Of Blob

  The Nature and Origin of the “Mind”

  The Origin and Nature of Affective Disorder

  Of Plasmatic Bondage

  The Power of the Intellect, or of Fat’s Emotional Liberation

  Chapter 17 - The Gnosis of 2-3-74

  Dick’s Gnosis about Gnostics

  Dick’s Twins

  Results of the Primordial Rape

  Pink Light

  Ay, There’s the Wub

  Chapter 18 - Replicating Morality

  Beyond Lies the Other

  How to Tell if You Are Really Just a Robot

  Can a Blade Runner Love a Robot?

  How to Build a Moral Robot

  PUBLIC RELATIONS GUIDE FOR NEW OFFICERS DIVISION OF PRECRIME

  01. Don’t We Arrest Innocent People?

  02. But Is It Really Inappropriate to Punish Pre-criminals?

  03. What Evidence Establishes Guilt?

  04. What about Leaks?

  Chapter 20 - If the Universe Isn’t Real, How Should We Treat Other People?

  To Be or Not To Be—Is That the Question?

  He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Other

  Fifty Ways to Love Your Other

  Puppets and Precogs

  Chapter 21 - Knowing Tomorrow While Choosing Today

  Freedom and Prediction

  Outside of Time?

  Prediction, or Sight?

  Perfect or Probabilistic?

  Chapter 22 - Total Recall’s Total Rethink

  Memory and the Brain-Butchers

  Owning Your Actions, Owning Your Past

  Inpsychation and Chains of Will

  Quaid’s Problem—Mucky Origins

  Freedom Without Origins

  Chapter 23 - Lonely Wolves

  Society’s a Bad Hit (If You’re Banging Up, Cranking, or Popping)

  Cultural Minority Report

  The Problem with Drugs

  It’s the Nausea

  Wolves Finish Last

  Futurity Doctored

  Chapter 24 - I Know What You Did Next Summer

  Pay Now, Live Later

  I Can Predict What You (Don’t) Do Next Summer

  Living in the Time of the Crime

  Always Invest in the Future

  Summarizing the Future

  The Future as Predictive Text

  Chapter 25 - Untimely Speculations

  Human, All Too Human

  Preparatory Human Beings

  On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Eternity for Life

  Chapter 26 - The Day Roosevelt Was Assassinated

  The Story

  Reality

  Determinism

  Time in the One Real World

  Precog a Are You

  Chapter 27 - Time in Unfixed Are You

  Time through Travel You

  Blur a Are You

  Briefings

  Chapter 28 - “Autofac”

  Chapter 29 - “King of the Elves”

  Chapter 30 - “The Golden Man”

  Chapter 31 - “Piper in the Woods”

  Chapter 32 - “The Exit Door Leads In”

  Chapter 33 - “The Gun”

  The Master’s Own Voice

  Chapter 34 - Beyond Lies the Wub

  Chapter 35 - The Eyes Have It

  Skin-Jobs

  Index

  Copyright Page

 

 

 


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