BATTLESTAR GALACTICA AND PHILOSOPHY Part 1: Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets1. How to Be Happy After the End of the World: Erik Baldwin (Purdue University) 2. The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet: Jason Blahuta (Lakehead University) 3. Being Your Own Worst Enemy: Baltar and the Image of the Tyrant: J. Robert Loftis (St. Lawrence University) 4. Master/Slave Morality: Cylon vs. Human: Robert Sharp (University of Alabama) Part 2: I, Cylon: What Does It Mean to Be a Person? 5.
"The Children of Humanity": Kurzweil, Moravec, and the Cylons: Jerold J. Abrams (Creighton University) 6. "And They Have a Plan": Cylons and Moral Responsibility: Robert Arp & Tracie L. Mahaffey (Florida State University) 7. "I 'm Sharon, but I 'm a Different Sharon": The Question of Cylon Identity: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) 8. When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death: Brian Willems (University of Split) Part 3: Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons 9. The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few: Randall M.
Jensen (Northwestern College) 10. Cylons and the Limits of Posthuman Justice: David Roden (Open University) 11. The Circle and the NCP: Ethics of Resistance vs. Collaboration: Andrew Terjesen (Washington and Lee University) 12. Who Is Sharon Valeri? Identity, Alienation, and Evil: George A. Dunn (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) Part 4: The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home 13. "I Am the Hand of God": Faith, Skepticism, and Disbelief: Jason T. Eberl & Jennifer A.
Vines (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) 14. Eternal Recurrence and Divine Providence: The Precarious Nature of Freedom: David Kyle Johnson (King 's College) 15. Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies: Taneli Kukkonen (University of Victoria) 16. Adama 's True Lie: The Existence of Earth and the Problem of Knowledge: Eric Silverman (Saint Louis University) Part 5: Sagittarans, Capricans, and Geminons: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives 17. "Let It Be Earth": Pragmatism and the Virtue of Hope: Elizabeth Cooke (Creighton University) 18. Is Starbuck a Woman?: Sarah Conly (Bowdoin College) 19. Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance: Buddhist Philosophy in Battlestar Galactica: James McRae (Westminster College) 20. Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation: David R.
Koepsell (State University of New York at Buffalo).