Plumwood, Val: and ecofeminism, 219, 220
Plutarch’s Lives, 7, 32
Polidori, Dr. William, 42, 210
The Posthuman Condition, 191
Professor Pretorius, 22
Prometheus, 9, 11, 16, 26, 35, 40, 41, 43, 72, 78, 83, 106, 165, 166, 170, 173
pro-natalism, 270, 271; see also anti-natalism
qualia, 140
relativism, 121, 124
responsibility, 40, 44, 68, 96, 97, 98, 111, 119, 120, 125, 129, 120, 131–34, 179, 188, 223, 229, 232, 234, 240; see also moral responsibility; free will
robots, 33, 121, 127, 128, 130, 132, 134, 190, 272
Frank, Robert H.: and economics, 29
Romanticism, 104
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: inequality, 19; education, 105–111; raising children, 213; and evil, 277–79
Ruins of Empires (Volney), 31, 163
Ryle, Gilbert: on mind, 176, 182–84
Sandel, Michael: and bioconservativism, 251–53, 258
Satan, 229, 276, 277; see also Lucifer
science, 6, 16, 23
science fiction, 25, 33, 40, 127, 171
Shelley, Mary: and Frankenstein novel, 3, 4, 7, 17, 18, 25, 26, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 79, 81, 94, 95, 125, 137, 140, 155, 157, 161, 165, 168, 169, 171, 175, 187, 207, 209, 217, 228, 249, 253, 273, 274, 284; person, 7, 9, 16, 19, 25, 29, 30, 31, 37, 39, 40, 44, 49, 71, 72, 83, 85, 89, 97, 99, 102, 111, 126, 188, 190, 208, 209, 212, 213, 214, 215, 229, 235, 237, 276, 278; family, 20, 31, 42, 72, 169, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 234; characters, 3, 10, 11, 16, 20, 21, 22, 32, 35, 38, 50, 59, 72, 73, 93, 96, 118, 121, 125, 131, 132, 137, 158, 159, 162, 172, 182, 208, 223, 234, 238, 246, 257, 284
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 42, 72, 168, 169, 210, 211, 212, 234
Shiva, Vandana: ecofeminism, 218
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (Haraway), 192
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Halberstam), 191
speciesism, 31, 32, 160, 162
Son of Frankenstein (1939), 222, 274
Strawson, Galen: on free will, 97
Swinburne, Richard: and dualism, 139
technology, 17 25, 27, 35, 37, 39, 44, 49, 60, 61, 68, 71, 73, 82, 83, 84, 103, 126, 127, 166, 168, 169, 170, 171, 190, 191, 208, 208, 217, 219, 221–25, 235, 250, 251, 254, 256
Tipler, Frank: and extra-terrestrials, 33
transhumanism 3, 9
Turing, Alan: artificial intelligence, 190
Twain, Mark: on power, 12
Übermensch, The 71, 73, 77, 78, 80
the uncanny, 230, 231, 232
utilitarianism, 31
Utopia (More), 19
van Inwagen, Peter: free will, 139
Venter, Craig: and bioengineering, 15–20, 22
Venkenheim, Jonathan, 274, 275
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, 262
Voltaire, 277, 288; see also Candide
Waldman, Dr., 113, 131, 199, 201, 202, 218, 220, 287
Walton, Captain Robert, 26, 29, 34, 38, 59, 69, 75, 78, 113, 140, 189, 209, 211, 214, 223, 233, 279, 283, 287
Warren, Mary Anne: personhood, 157, 158, 162
Whale, James: Frankenstein (1931), 3, 4, 6, 171, 200, 201, 207, 214, 274
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Philosophical Investigations, 45
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 20, 44, 210, 213; see also Shelley, Mary, family
Young Frankenstein, 44
Zarathustra, 71–77, 79, 80
zombies, 32, 93
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