Blade Runner

Ridley Scott¿s Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human beings and ¿replicants¿ is blurred, the film raises a host of philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the possibility of moral agency and freedom in ¿created¿ life forms, and the capacity of cinema to make a genuine contribution to our engagement with these kinds of questions.

This volume of specially commissioned chapters systematically explores and addresses these issues from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful introduction, the seven chapters examine the following questions:

• How is the theme of death explored in Blade Runner and with what implications for our understanding of the human condition?
• What can we learn about the relationship between emotion and reason from the depiction