Science Fiction and Philosophy - From Time Travel to Superintelligence

Science fiction is more than mere entertainment. Historian H. Bruce Franklin defines it as the literature which, growing with science and technology, evaluates it and relates it meaningfully to the rest of human existence. Indeed, science fiction is increasingly converging with science fact. From the nature of the mind to the ethics of AI and neural enhancment, science fiction thought experiments fire the philosophical imagination, encouraging us to think outside the box of about classical philosophical problems and even to envision new ones...