Volume 5 (2022)

Vol. 5 (2022)

Published: 2022-06-15 (June 15, 2022)


General Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

The Politics of Truth in China: Ontological-Ethical Dimensions of Science and Science Fiction

Lennon Zhang


Children of the Mind and the Concept of Edge and Center Nations

Steven Foertsch


Ex Machina: Testing Machines for Consciousness and Socio-Relational Machine Ethics

Harrison S. Jackson


The Morality of Artificial Friends in Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

Jakob Stenseke


A Grammar in Two Dimensions: The Temporal Mechanics of Arrival and the Semantics/Pragmatics Divide

A.G. Holdier


Jaws Within Jaws: A Cosmopolitical Ecology of Alien

Eric Macedo


Conscientious Utilitarianism; or, the Utilitarians Who Walk Away from Omelas

Andrew Dennis Bassford


BOOK REVIEWS

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life. The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World (I.B. Tauris, 2021)

Stefano Bigliardi