Identity and Moral Considerability: "We Made You Because We Could" -- "No Man Needs Nothing": The Possibility of Androids as Lockean Persons in Alien and Prometheus / Androids: Artificial Persons or Glorified Toasters? / "All Other Priorities Are Rescinded": The Moral Status of Employees in the Alien Franchise / Ethics: "I Don't Know Which Species is Worse" -- Disposable Assets: Weyland-Yutani's Special Brew of Business Ethics / Corporate Greed and Alien/ation: Marx vs. Weyland-Yutani / Public and its Alien Problem / Cross My Heart and Hope to Die: Why Ripley Must Save Newt / Moral Psychology: "Unclouded by Conscience, Remorse, or Delusions of Mortality" -- Nuking the Colony to Save It: Colonial Marines and Just Wars / Xenomorphs and the Benefits of Exposure to Violence as Education / Alien, Alienation, and Alien Nation / Horror: "They Mostly Come at Night" -- Terror from the Stars: Alien as Lovecraftian Horror / Art-Horror Environments and the Alien Series / Contagion: Impurity, Mental Illness, and Suicide in Alien3 / Sex and Gender: "None of Them Have Seen a Woman in Years" -- Ellen Ripley: The Rise of the Matriarch / Is Ellen Ripley a Feminist? / Alien Violation: Male Bodily Integrity in an Equal Opportunity Rape Culture / Continental Philosophy: "I'm the Monster's Mother" -- Alien as Ubermensch: Overcoming Morality in Order to Become the Perfect Killer / "Why Do You Go On Living?" Ripley-8 and the Absurd / God Save the Xenomorph Queen: Defending Xenomorph Self-Defense