ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.
Listen "Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Empathy And Antipathy Towards Androids"
Episode Synopsis
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
It focuses specifically on the emotional attitudes and responses that various characters in the novel have or develop towards androids. Androids lack the capacity for empathy and therefore do not exhibit it towards each other. Rick Decker find himself feeling empathy towards at least some androids.
To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler
If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM
You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler
You can get a copy of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep here -https://amzn.to/47ZcoWU
It focuses specifically on the emotional attitudes and responses that various characters in the novel have or develop towards androids. Androids lack the capacity for empathy and therefore do not exhibit it towards each other. Rick Decker find himself feeling empathy towards at least some androids.
To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler
If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM
You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler
You can get a copy of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep here -https://amzn.to/47ZcoWU
More episodes of the podcast Sadler's Lectures
Real Workplace Stoicism - Virtues, Duties, Fitting In, & Fixing Things - Sadler's Lectures
12/12/2025
Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto - Communist Criticism Of Other Socialisms
11/12/2025
Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto - Party, Proletariat, & Communist Project
10/12/2025
Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto - The Emergence Of The Proletariat
08/12/2025
In God we trust