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  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781910924068
  • Imprint: Watkins
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 300
  • RRP: $45.00
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Discognition




One of our leading Postmodern thinkers reflects on the nature of reality through the lens of contemporary Science Fiction.

What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens, will we be able to understand what they say to us? Philosophers and scientists are still unable to answer questions like these. Perhaps science fiction can help. In Discognition, Steven Shaviro looks at science fiction novels and stories that explore the extreme possibilities of human and alien sentience.

  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781910924068
  • Imprint: Watkins
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 300
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

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Praise for Discognition

Praise for Shaviro's "The Universe of Things": "Steven Shaviro has long been the most dignified and helpful of Speculative Realism's critics. In this new book, in prose devoid of rancor or backstabbing ambition, he patiently develops the metaphysics of Whitehead into an alternative to the four main strands of Speculative Realism: object-oriented, speculative materialist, vitalist, and scientistic. Shaviro's arguments will interest both the supporters and the detractors of this still young philosophical movement." --Graham Harman, author of Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism