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just-war theory
Kant, Immanuel
human dignity and
meaning of “humanity” and
killing
as Terminators’ modus operandi
King, Ada Byron
Kohlberg, Lawrence
Kripke, Saul.7
Kundera, Milan
La Mettrie, Julien de
language
simulation of
as social interaction
thinking beings and
Laplace, Pierre
learning
Leiber, Fritz
Leibniz, Gottfried
lexicon
Lieberman, Dr.
life
balancing of one vs. many
as God’s gift
meaningful
purpose of
valuation of
life forms, non-human
death and
DNA and
human chauvinism and
humans’ use of
intelligence and
interests of
as machines
mechanistic view of
mental activity of
moral status of
souls and
linguistic communication theory
literal meaning
Locke, John
logical contradiction
Lovelace Test
Lucretius
Lycan, William
lying
machines
death capacity of
emotions and
freedom and
human chauvinism and
human qualities vs.
humans as
human trust in
human war with
interests and rights of
language-using
mechanistic worldview and
mental lives of
moral responsibility and
moral status of
passing as humans
programming of
thinking and
Turing Test and
unconscious stereotypes of
malicious intent
Man a Machine
(La Mettrie)
(La Mettrie)
Marquis, Don
Marx, Karl
Marxist philosophy
mass-energy-time continuum
materialism
maximum interest satisfaction
McMahan, Jeff
meaning
ambiguity of
of behavior
distinguishing of
meaningful life
mechanistic worldview
metaphysics
meta-theory
meta-time
Midgley, Mary
militarism
Mill, John Stuart
mind.
See also
thinking being
See also
thinking being
misfortune, deprivation vs.
Mitnick, Kevin
moral claims
collective responsibility and
killing and
machines and
meaningful language and
non-human life and
suicide and
moral naturalists
moral reasoning
gender differences in
precognition lack and
thinking machine and
Morsky, Stan
motherhood
motivations
intention vs.
movies
Nagel, Thomas
neuroscience
Newton, Isaac
non-human life.
See
life forms, non-human
See
life forms, non-human
nothingness
novels
Nussbaum, Martha
Ockham’s razor, modified
open-future model
pain
meaning of
paradoxes
parallel universes
Paul, Saint
personal identity problem
personhood.
See
humans
See
humans
phenotype, extended
philosophical zombie
physics
Piaget, Jean
pity
Plato
posthumanism
posttraumatic stress disorder
pragmatic linguistics
pre-birth nothingness
preemptive war
presentism
“prisoner’s dilemma”
pronouns
proportionality
rational, meanings of
rational behavior
rational choices
rational soul
reason
emotions vs.
goal attainment and
as human capacity
moral development and
moral duty and
reasoning.
See also
moral reasoning
See also
moral reasoning
Reese, Derek
Reese, Kyle
as John’s father
on Judgment Day
respect for human life and
on Terminators’ characteristics
time travel and
on unfixed future
reference borrowing
referential ambiguity
referring descriptions
reflex theory
resistance
responsibility
rights
Robinson, Will
robot, coining of term.
See also
Terminators
See also
Terminators
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
rule utilitarianism
Russell, Bertrand
Salceda, Enrique
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Austrian accent of
Terminator
violence and
violence and
See also
T-101
T-101
science fiction
scientific revolution
Searle, John
self-awareness
self-defense
just-war theory and
self-destruction.
See
suicide
See
suicide
“selfish genes”
self-preservation
self-sacrifice
semantic meaning
sex roles.
See
gender
See
gender
Shannon, Claude
Shelley, Mary
signs and signifiers
Silberman, Dr.
simulation
Singer, Peter
Skynet
aim of
collective responsibility for
development of
end to history and
inevitability of
intelligence of
interests of
Marxist thought and
moral status of
self-awareness of
self-defense and
T-101’s self-sacrifice and
technologies of
timelines and
unleashing of
war plan of
See also
Judgment Day; Terminators
Judgment Day; Terminators
social contract
Socrates
soul
space-time
speaker’s meaning
special relativity, theory of
Spinoza, Baruch
stage theory
stained warrior
state of nature
Strawson, P. F.
suffering
suicide
survival of fittest
syntax
ambiguity and
T-101
changes in
curiosity of
death and
free choice and
gender role reversal and
human aspects of
humans compared with
John’s relationship with
Judgment Day and
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