Philosophy through film

Many of the classic questions of philosophy have been raised, illuminated, and addressed in celluloid. In this Third Edition of Philosophy through Film, Mary M. Litch teams up with a new co-author, Amy D. Karofsky, to show readers how to watch films with a sharp eye for their philosophical content. Together, the authors help students become familiar with key topics in all of the major areas in Western philosophy and master the techniques of philosophical argumentation. The perfect size and scope for a first course in philosophy, the book assumes no prior knowledge of philosophy.

Previous edition: 2010.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Truth: Hilary and Jackie; 2 Skepticism: The Matrix and Inception; 3 Personal Identity: Memento and Moon; 4 Artificial Intelligence: I, Robot; 5 Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility: Memento and Minority Report; 6 Ethics: Crimes and Misdemeanors and Gone Baby Gone; 7 Political Philosophy: Antz and Equilibrium; 8 The Problem of Evil: The Seventh Seal and God on Trial; 9 Existentialism: The Seventh Seal, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Leaving Las Vegas.

Appendix: Story Lines of Films by Elapsed TimeReadings from Primary Sources; Plato, "Allegory of the Cave" (from The Republic); Bertrand Russell excerpts from The Problems of Philosophy; William James excerpts from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking; René Descartes, "Meditation One" (from Meditations on First Philosophy); George Berkeley, excerpts from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; Immanuel Kant, excerpts from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; John Locke, excerpts from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

David Hume, excerpts from A Treatise of Human NatureAlan Turing, excerpt…