Philip K. Dick and Philosophy
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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
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