Science Fiction & Philosophy | With James Burton, Lewis Powell, and Lisa Walters
Zombies, time travel, brain transplants… science fiction and philosophy have a lot in common. Indeed, they have a shared history, with some of the most important figures of the Enlightenment writing science fiction alongside their better-known philosophical work. And Naomi Alderman, Liu Cixin, and China Miéville are among the many that ensure this close relationship persists right up to today. From Francis Bacon’s utopian island to Margaret Cavendish’s polar bear army, our literary and philosophical experts discuss how science fiction and philosophy have influenced one another, putting the ‘phi’ back into ‘sci-fi’.
Speakers
• 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗼𝗻
Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Cultural History, Goldsmiths University of London
• 𝗟𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹
Professor of Philosophy, University of Buffalo
• 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Queensland
Chair
• 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆
Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Co-sponsored by the 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 and the @RoyalInstitutePhilosophy
Recorded on 1 December 2020
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Here are some links to things/people that I mentioned throughout the video: Project Vox: projectvox.library.duke.edu/ New Narratives in Philosophy: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/ Micromegas: www.gutenberg.org/files/30123/30123-h/30123-h.htm Dialogue Between an Oake and a Man Cutting Him Downe (from Poems and Fancies): quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A53061.0001.001/1:15.10?rgn=div2;view=fulltext Deborah Boyle: philosophy.cofc.edu/faculty-staff-listing/boyle-deborah.php Ada Palmer: adapalmer.com/ Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer: us.macmillan.com/series/terraignota/
Very informative discussion. Thanks for posting!
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Listening to literary/humanities people talk about science fiction is entertaining and sometimes hilarious. The spectrum of science fiction is so broad that the term is hardly of any value. Robert Heinlein tried to give "speculative fiction" a meaning that excluded fantasy and some science fiction. Imagining and speculating only partially overlap. An architect could imagine a building that could not hold itself up or an aeronautical engineer could imagine a plane that could not fly. But it might just be a matter of materials that do not exist yet and can be done in 100 years. Imagine a material called bubble steel. Steel with billions of microscopic bubbles evenly distributed so it is actually 80% air. 90% the strength of steel with 20% of the weight. What could be built with that? But technologies change individual's and society's options. Who decides? We can't do something as simple as make double-entry accounting mandatory in the schools. How was 4 years of mandatory English literature decided?
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