David Friedell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Union College (Schenectady, NY). His work has appeared in journals including Philosophical Studies, Analysis, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Part I. Free Will.- 1. Why the Market Value of Free Will is [...].- 2. Many-worlds and Free Will.- Part II. God.- 3. Death, God, and Meaning in Ted Chiang’s Stories.- 4. The Presence of Evil and the Absence of God.- 5. Gabe Rabin, Mysterious Ways: Making Sense of God’s Actions in Hell Is the Absence of God. Part III. Technology.- 6. The Value of Fact and Feeling.- 7. We Can Remember It for You Better: Ted Chiang on Technology and Human Knowledge.- Part IV. Existentialism.- 8. How to Live With Freedom.- 9. Existential Responsibility in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Chiang.- Part V. Beauty.- 10. Just Looking: Check Out the Computational Topography on Her!.- 11. Should You Like What You See? Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Appreciation of Human Beauty.- Part VI. Procreation Ethics.- 12. The Ethics of Making a Short Life.- Part VII. Contradictions.- 13. Knowledge, Symbols, and Understanding.- 14. Choosing What’s Fictionally True.- Part VIII. Time.- 15. Time Machines and Predictors are Possible but Unlikely.- 16. The Temporality of Our Emotions and Time in Ted Chiang’s Stories.- Part IX. Human and Alien Intelligence.- 17. Language, Thought, Experience, and Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”.- 18. Jeopardy! and the Stories of Our Lives.- 19. What Is It to Understand Enlightenment?.- Part X. Artificial Intelligence.- 20. Raising an AI Teenager.- 21. Save the Digients! On the Moral Status of AI.