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The Robot as Other : = Sartre and Television Portrayals of Humanoid Robots in "Almost Human" and "Humans".

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Robot as Other :/
Reminder of title:	Sartre and Television Portrayals of Humanoid Robots in "Almost Human" and "Humans".
Author:	Hanson, Karen S.
Description:	1 online resource (268 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Philosophy of science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369696103

The Robot as Other : = Sartre and Television Portrayals of Humanoid Robots in "Almost Human" and "Humans".
Hanson, Karen S.

The Robot as Other :Sartre and Television Portrayals of Humanoid Robots in "Almost Human" and "Humans". - 1 online resource (268 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Salve Regina University, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references

Portrayals of humanoid robots in television series draw heavily from the historical and cultural mythology of robots. This mythology is expressed in two contemporary television series, Almost Human and Humans, in which robots are depicted as closely resembling humans in physical appearance and behavior and as fulfilling social roles usually occupied by humans. The robots are imagined with characteristics associated with human consciousness, such as emotions, individuality, and free will. An analysis of the robots in these series, using Jean-Paul Sartre's theories of consciousness and the Other, demonstrates that when the robots are depicted as conscious, the relationship between a human and robot is portrayed as one of human-to-human (or human-to-Other), not human-to-technology. Sartre's philosophy helps describe the human characters' fascination and fear of the robots as resulting from their perceptions of the Other's shifting status of object and subject and the unpredictability associated with the Other's freedom. Thus, it is not the machine aspects of the robot that are desired and feared, but the humanness within the machine. Viewed in this way, the humanoid robot as depicted these television series represents a continuing effort to define and describe the essence of humanity in a society where the boundaries between machines and humans are becomingly increasingly blurred.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369696103Subjects--Topical Terms:

1009373
Philosophy of science.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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