Philosophical Reflections

Reading Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , I came across the following intriguing passage (in chapter 19), in which Huck tell...

A couple of weeks ago I briefly discussed, prompted by David Levy’s treatment of the issue in his book Love and Sex with Robots , whe...

Here’s yet another tale about a man’s erotic obsession with a female android, or automaton as it used to be called at the time: E.T.A...

The story of Pygmalion, as it has been related to us by Ovid in the tenth book of his Metamorphoses , is characterised by an astonishin...

In 1886, the French symbolist Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam published The Future Eve (L’Ève Future), which gives a new twist to th...