Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy: This Breaks the World (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 127)

A team of philosophers representing diverse backgrounds and perspectives tackles the issues raised by the Blade Runner movies. Philosophy And Reality In Blade Runner 2049 / Robin Bunce -- Do You Long For Having Your Heart Interlinked? / Timothy Shanahan -- Is Joi A Person? / Chris Lay -- Are You For Real? / Aron Ericson -- The Aesthetics Of Being A Person / S. Evan Kreider -- A Replicant's Guide To Becoming Human / Justin Kitchen -- You Don't Need To Be Human To Have A Human Hand / Sue Zemka -- More Human Than Human / Rob O'conner -- Ode To Joi / Steve Bein -- Replicant Birth, Moral Miscarriage / L. Brooke Rudow -- Should Humans Dream Of Designer Babies? / Samantha Noll And Laci Hubbard-mattix -- Conceiving Ai / Beth Singler -- The Riddle Of Niander Wallace / Patrick Greene, J.m. Prater, Iain Souter, And Robin Bunce -- Flow My Tears, Rick Deckard Said / M. Blake Wilson -- After The Blackout / Martin Muchall -- The Phenomenology Of Replicant Life And Death / Zachary Sheldon -- Who Am I To You? / James M. Okapal -- You've Never Seen A Miracle / Andrew Kuzma -- K's Most Excellent Kierkegaardian Pilgrimage / Ben Franz -- And God Created Replicants In His Own Image / Jerry Piven -- Sympathy For The Existential Devils / James M. Mclachlan -- The Trouble With Joi / M.j. Ryder -- Rachael, Weeping For Her Children / Bonnie Mclean -- The Future Is Female...robots! / Emily Cox-palmer-white -- A Modern Utopia? / Robin Bunce -- Less Human Than Human / Leah D. Schade And Emily Askew -- Do Replicants Have Nightmares Of Ethnic Discrimination? / Dominic J. Nardi, Jr. -- Who Keeps A Dead Tree? / Ali Riza Taşkale And Reşat Volkan Günel -- Replicants Of California, Unite! / Christopher M. Innes. Edited By Robin Bunce And Trip Mccrossin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 237-242) And Index. Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 sequel to the 1982 movie Blade Runner , about a world in which some human-looking replicants have become dangerous, so that other human-looking replicants, as well as humans, have the job of hunting down the dangerous models and retiring (destroying) them. Both films have been widely hailed as among the greatest science-fiction movies of all time, and Ridley Scott, director of the original Blade Runner , has announced that there will be a third Blade Runner movie. Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy is a collection of entertaining articles on both Blade Runner movies (and on the spin-off short films and Blade Runner novels) by twenty philosophers representing diverse backgrounds and philosophical perspectives. Among the issues addressed in the