A Case for Droid Rights

Onscreen Media

•Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

•Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

•Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi (1983)

•Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

•Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

•Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) – S1 Ep1, Ambush, S2 Ep2, Cargo of Doom, S4 Ep14, A Friend in Need, S5 Ep12, Missing in Action

•Star Wars Rebels (2014) – S2 Ep19, The Forgotten Droid, S3 Ep6, The Last Battle

•Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)

•LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (2016)

•Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

•Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)

•Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

•Star Wars Resistance (2018) – S1 Ep16, The New Trooper

•The Mandalorian (2019) – S1 Ep7, The Reckoning, S1 Ep8, Redemption 

•Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

•Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021) – S2 Ep7, The Clone Conspiracy

•Star Wars: Visions (2021)  – T0-B1

•Star Wars: Andor (2022) – S1 Ep3, Reckoning, S1 Ep11, Daughter of Ferrix

•Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)

•Ahsoka (2023) – S1 Ep2, Toil and Trouble

Reference Books

•Star Wars: Droidography by Marc Sumerak

•Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo

•Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo

•Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor by Jason Fry

•Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia by Adam Bray, Cole Horton, and Tricia Barr

Novels

•Lando's Luck by Justina Ireland

•Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition by Mur Lafferty

•From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back – Faith in an Old Friend by Brittany N. Williams •Right-Hand Man by Lydia Kang

•Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher

•Last Shot by Daniel José Older

•Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed

•Doctor Aphra by Sarah Kuhn

•Black Spire by Delilah S. Dawson

•Most Wanted by Rae Carson

•Tarkin by James Luceno 

Comics

•Star Wars Special: C-3PO (2016)

•Darth Vader (2015) – #18

•Doctor Aphra (2016)

•Star Wars (2020)

•Revelations (2022)

•Han Solo & Chewbacca (2022) – #9

•Dark Droids (2023) – #1, #2

Non-Star Wars Publications

•Minds, Brains, and Programs by John R. Searle from The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 3

•The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence by Stevan Harnad

•Earthworms Use Odor Cues to Locate and Feed on Microorganisms in Soil by Lara Zirbes et al.

•Descartes’ Account of Feeling of Pain in Animals by Emre Arda Erdenk

•What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel

•Dune by Frank Herbert

Web Sources

•The Five Droid Classes in Star Wars by Star Wars Explained on YouTube.com

•The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars by Pop Culture Detective on YouTube.com

•Souls, Reprogrammed: The Complicated Droids of the New Canon by Chris Werms on eleventhirtyeight.com

•Mind or Matter? Unpacking Droid Sentience in the Films by M. Dean Cooper, Jay Shah, Ben Wahrman, Mark Eldridge and David Schwarz on eleven-thirtyeight.com

•Droids, Sex, and Consent: Should It “Work”? by Eric Farr on eleven-thirtyeight.com

•Droids: Slave or Sentient? by Ben Wahrman and Jay Shah on eleven-thirtyeight.com

•Do Droids Dream of Electric Nerfs? by Alexander Gaultier on eleven-thirtyeight.com

•Programmable Souls: On Droids and Narrative by Becca Hughes on eleven-thirtyeight.com

•Second Look – Programmable Souls: On Droids and Narrative by M. Dean Cooper on eleventhirtyeight.com

•Could a Machine Think? by Patricia Smith Churchland on https://www.scientificamerican.com/

•Monism from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive

•The Turing Test from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive

•Physicalism by Daniel Stoljar from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•Man-Machine From The Greeks To The Computer by Aram Vartanian from University of Virginia Library

•Mister Borkus on Star Wars Databank

•The Hard Problem of Consciousness by Josh Weisberg on Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•Living Being (Jiv -Soul) on jainworld.com

•Jainism and Scientific Thought by Aidan Rankin and Kanti V. Mardia on jainpedia.org

•Descartes on the Animal Within, and the Animals Without by Cambridge University on cambridge.org

•Sentient Beings (Buddhism) on wikipedia.org

•Animal Consciousness on wikipedia.org

•The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks Episode 4: The Hardest Part by Dylan Marron

Wookieepedia Pages

•Droid

•Anti-Droid Sentiment

•V-5 Transport Droid

•Staircase Droid

•R6-LE5

•4B-EG-6

•L3-37

•AL1-L3

•PLNK-Series Power Droid