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CFP: Science Fiction in Culture and the Canon (4/15/04; e-journal issue)

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 1:21am
Kirsten C. Uszkalo

CFP: The Undiscovered Country: Science fiction in culture and the canon

There have been several milestones met and passed since Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Grandfather of science fiction, introduced us to extra terrestrial life on Mars. Through science fiction we have engaged our minds and souls in the modern manifestation of philosophy and often crossed the line into technical prophecy.

CFP: Science Fiction in Culture and the Canon (4/15/04; e-journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 1:21am
Kirsten C. Uszkalo

CFP: The Undiscovered Country: Science fiction in culture and the canon

There have been several milestones met and passed since Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Grandfather of science fiction, introduced us to extra terrestrial life on Mars. Through science fiction we have engaged our minds and souls in the modern manifestation of philosophy and often crossed the line into technical prophecy.

CFP: Seeing and Knowing (2/15/04; journal issue)

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Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 1:21am
Nicole Frey

CFP: Variations: InSights (issue 12, 2004)

=93Thinking is more interesting than knowing but less fascinating than=20=

seeing.=94
J.W. Goethe

=93And the eyes of the two of them were opened, and they knew that they=20=

were naked=94 (Genesis 3.7). Seeing and knowing have always been very=20
closely related. Throughout the history of philosophy =96 from Plato to=20=

Descartes and Sloterdijk =96 the eye has occupied a prominent position =
in=20
philosophical discussions, especially as far as epistemological=20
questions are concerned. A look into both scientific and everyday=20
language reveals that a number of visual metaphors serve the purpose of=20=