Steven Spielberg and Philosophy

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Philosophy, the Filmmaker, and the Human Condition
	Chapter 1. The \"Big-Little\" Film and Philosophy: Two Takes on Spielbergian Innocence
	Chapter 2. The Recovery of Childhood and the Search for the Absent Father
	Chapter 3. Levinasian Ethics of Alterity: The Face of the Other in Spielberg\'s Cinematic Language
	Chapter 4. The Paradox of Fictional Belief and It\'s Moral Implications in Jaws
	Chapter 5. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and the Tragic Sense of Life
Part II: Values, Virtue, and Justice
	Chapter 6. What Is Wrong with Cloning a Dinosaur? Jurassic Park and Nature as a Source of Moral Authority
	Chapter 7. Is Oskar Schindler a Good Man?
	Chapter 8. A Spielbergian Ethics of the Family in Saving Private Ryan and The Color Purple
	Chapter 9. Human Rights, Human Nature, and Amistad
	Chapter 10. Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and \"The Story of What Happens Next\" in Munich
Part III: Realism, Mind, and Metaphysics
	Chapter 11. Spielberg and Cinematic Realism
	Chapter 12. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: Artistic Indulgence or Advanced Inquiry?
	Chapter 13. Minority Report, Molinism, and the Viability of Precrime
Appendix: Discussing Five Spielberg Films
Contributors
Index
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