Planet of the Apes and Philosophy (45 page)

M
ICHAEL
R
USE
teaches philosophy and film at Florida State University, and is founding editor of the journal
Biology and Philosophy
. Although he has written a number of books on philosophy and evolution, including
Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry
(1988),
Darwinism and Its Discontents
(2008), and
Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science
(2010), deep down he would rather like to be a bonobo.

R
ALPH
S
HAIN
teaches philosophy at Missouri State University and wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of time. He specializes in Continental philosophy and contributed a chapter to
Led Zeppelin and Philosophy: All Will Be Revealed
(2009) on the struggle for recognition called “Your Time Is Gonna Come.” When not devoting space to thinking about time he devotes time to thinking about space.

C
HAD
W
ILLIAM
T
IMM
is an assistant professor of education at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. He has written on radical education, Axis POWs in Iowa, and popular culture and philosophy, including
The Hunger Games
. While attempting to solve the Lucas Tower puzzle in less than thirty seconds he experienced an identity crisis, realizing he was destined to lead junior faculty in a global ape revolution of their own.

T
RAVIS
M
ICHAEL
T
IMMERMAN
is finishing his PhD in philosophy at Syracuse University. He specializes in ethics and death, but only because studying the
Planet of the Apes
series is not properly recognized as a philosophical discipline. When not reading or writing philosophy, he eagerly awaits
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

S
ARA
W
ALLER
is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University, where she studies animal minds and analyzes the vocalizations of dolphins, coyotes, wolves, and feral cats. She thinks that speech, language, and making noise in general have a lot to do with ensuring fair and just treatment on Planet of the Humans and Other Critters as well as on the Planet of the Apes.

J
OHN
S. W
ILKINS
has a PhD in history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne, where he is an honorary (and jolly good) fellow, and teaches at the University of Sydney. He has published a book on the history of species concepts, and has another on classification coming out this year. He is currently at work on yet another book exploring submission behaviors, threat stares, and dominance hierarchies in philosophy departments.

abortion, selective,
160

Abrahams, Mort,
245

Academy Awards (Oscars),
193
,
194
,
198
,
200
,
201

acting,
193
,
194
,
197–99
,
201

Adam and Eve,
148
,
149

Adorno, Theodor W.,
216

alpha males,
174

Alpha Omega Bomb,
287–291

Andreasen, Robin,
249

animal liberation,
85
;
see also
Singer, Peter

animals: behavior,
8
; communication,
8–11
,
42–43
,
167
,
174–75
; Heidegger on,
257
; human relations with,
271
; intelligence,
21
; moral status of,
67–82
; pain,
49–50
; research,
43
,
47–48
; thought,
5–7

Anscombe, Elizabeth,
ix–x

anthropic cosmological principle,
160

anthropocentrism,
270–71

anti-hero,
224

anti-miscegenation laws,
250

anti-Semitism,
160

Ape City,
125
,
131
,
137
,
266
,
271

Appiah, Kwame Anthony,
253

Arab Spring,
x

Aranha, Caroline,
55
,
237
,
239

Aristotle,
85
,
293
; ethics,
59–60
; logic,
117–18
,
120

Armando,
29
,
87
,
103
,
291

Atwood, Margaret,
212

Bambi,
143

Barrow, J.D.,
160

Battle for the Planet of the Apes
(movie),
ix
,
95
; and race,
251
,
252
; anti-speciesist message,
81
,
248
,
290

Baylis, François,
57
,
61–63

belligerence,
146
,
151

Beneath the Planet of the Apes
(movie),
86
,
250
; annihilation in,
253
,
267
,
269
; deceit in,
30
; Malthusian aspects,
285–86
; mutants in,
29
,
95
,
287
; muteness in,
25
; Nova in,
32
; telepathy in,
88
,
287
; time travel in,
99
; post-apocalyptic aspects,
151

Bentham, Jeremy,
81

Beverly Hillbillies
,
150

biological essentialism,
247

biological realism,
247

Boulle, Pierre,
ix
,
27
,
30
,
32
,
69
,
111

Brave New World
,
212
,
289

Brent,
25
,
29
,
99
,
151
,
276

Bright Eyes,
17
,
20
,
150
,
233

Caesar,
53–60
,
177–189
,
231–243
; Andy Serkis as,
193–201
; autonomy of,
172
; confinement of,
168
,
169
,
171
; deceptive ability,
30
; escape of,
175
; genetic enhancement of,
53–60
; identity crisis of,
231–243
; intelligence,
16
,
17
,
20
,
87
; leadership,
81
,
85
,
103
,
106
; moral aspects,
94
,
177–189
; privilege of,
273
; signing of,
3
,
8
,
10
,
23
; rise of,
255–262
; speaking ability,
19

Cage, John,
218–19

Cain,
284

Carroll, Noël,
220

cave,
147
,
148
,
149
,
151
,
155

censorship,
129–130
,
134
,
270

Chambers, John,
200–01
, chimpanzees,
30
,
177–78
,
195
,
297
; captive,
167–176
; circus,
103
; digital,
193–201
; research on,
19–20
,
36–38
,
92
; folk psychology of,
9
; genetic enhancement of,
53–59
; genome,
249
; human friendship with,
84
; language,
258
,
266
; mirror test,
234
; moral psychology,
177–189
; retirement,
300
; sex,
155
; speech,
23
,
106
; status in Ape society,
125
,
128
,
133–35
,
139

Chimpsky, Nim,
92
,
258

Civil Rights Movement,
214

civilization,
31
,
135
,
142
,
147
,
149
,
163
,
190
,
292
; collapse of,
281–86

class, warrior,
132
,
137–138

Cold War,
155
,
216
,
225
,
269
,
273

compassion,
60
,
94
,
132

competition,
146
,
188–89

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
,
x
,
68
,
87
,
81
,
106
,
246
,
254
,
291

consciousness,
47
,
52
,
88
; self-,
266
,
267
,
270
,
281

Copernicus,
ix
,
196

Cornelius, Dr.,
73–74
,
116
,
134
,
147
; in
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
(movie),
249
; in
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
(movie),
74
,
101
,
106
,
116
; in
Planet of the Apes
(book),
112
; in
Planet of the Apes
(movie),
131–35
,
140
,
147
,
155
,
205
,
260
; and Sacred Scrolls,
265
,
282
; and reverse evolution,
131
,
134
,
147
,
155
,
26

Darwin, Charles,
11
,
50
,,
180–82
,
184

Davidson, Donald,
5

Davis, Sammy, Jr.,
245
,
252

Dawkins, Richard,
156

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
,
57

democracy,
141–42
,
147
,
224
,
225

Dennett, Daniel,
28
,
35

deontology,
59

Descartes, René,
5
,
33
,
34
,
50
,
51
,
232
,
238
,
259

deus ex machina
,
287–89

devil,
143
,
265
,
282

de Waal, Frans,
19
,
179

Dixon, Dr. Lewis,
30
,
36
,
38
,
83
,
291

DNA,
156–57
,
249
,
287
,
290

Dodge,
44

Douglas, Donna,
150

Drysdale, Sonny,
150

Earth,
ix
,
100
,
111
,
265–67
,
272–77
,
280–81
,
285
,
290–92

egoism, rational,
178

education,
16
,
128–29
,
136

Einstein, Albert,
44
,
99–102
,
112

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
290

endangered species,
175

epistemology,
246
; of ignorance,
246

Eubulides,
55

Escape from the Planet of the Apes
(movie),
101–03
,
121
,
137
,
175
,
260
,
266
; backward time travel in,
111
,
113
,
116
,
118
,
119
; parallel timelines in,
106
,
107
; plot,
113

Evans, Maurice,
200
,
214
,
254

ethics,
58
; chauvinist,
269
; consequentialist,
58
; deontological,
59
; emotivist,
46–47
; environmental,
267
,
268
; Kantian,
178
; virtue,
58
,
59–60

evolution, convergent,
182
; cultural,
260
; heresy of,
131
; human,
162
,
189
; question of progress in,
154
,
161
; reverse,
135
,
146–47
,
261
; theory of,
131
,
135

evolutionary tree,
182

Facebook,
xi
,
287–89

family,
29
,
91–92
,
138
,
238–39

Fellowship of the Holy Fallout,
151