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The Philosophy of Doctor Who

Kevin S. Decker

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I B TAURIS
18 December 2013

Science fiction; Philosophy; Doctor Who Reference; Media Reference; Other Film, TV & Media; Sci-Fi Reference; Sci-Fi Literary Criticism; Science; Space; Aliens; Time Travel

When you have been wandering the cosmos from one end of eternity to another for nearly a thousand years, what's your philosophy of life, the universe, and everything? Doctor Who is 50 years' old in 2013.

Through its long life on television and beyond it has inspired much debate due to the richness and complexity of the metaphysical and moral issues that it poses.

This is the first in-depth philosophical investigation of Doctor Who in popular culture. From 1963's An Unearthly Child through the latest series, it considers continuity and change in the pictures that the programme paints of the nature of truth and knowledge, science and religion, space and time, good and evil, including the uncanny, the problem of evil, the Doctor's complex ethical motivations, questions of persisting personal identity in the Time Lord processes of regeneration, the nature of time travel through 'wibbley-wobbley, timey-wimey stuff, how quantum theory affects our understanding of time; and the nature of the mysterious and irrational in the Doctor's universe.

By: Kevin S. Decker
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 283g
ISBN: 9781780765532
ISBN 10: 1780765533
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 18 December 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kevin S. Decker is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Programme at Eastern Washington University. He has co-edited books on the philosophical significance of Star Wars, Star Trek and the Terminator films and television show.

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