Cover; Contents; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; The Editor's Totem: An Elegant Solution for Keeping Track of Reality; Introduction: Plato's Academy Award; Part One: Was Mal Right? Was It All Just A Dream?: Making Sense of Inception; Chapter 1: Was It All a Dream?: Why Nolan's Answer Doesn't Matter; The Major Interpretations; Clues from the Work; What Nolan Says; Why We Shouldn't Care What Nolan Says; The Epistemic Problem; The Interpretively Static Problem; The Collective Ownership Problem; So What's the Alternative?
Summary
A philosophical look at the movie Inception and its brilliant metaphysical puzzles Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan's four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another's dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. Inception is a metaphysical heist film that raises more questions than it answers: Can we know what is real? Can you be held morally responsible for what you do in dreams? What is the nature of dreams, and what do they tell us about the boundaries of "self" and "other"? From Plato to Aristotle and from Descartes to Hu
