Philosophy Through Video Games

By Jon Cogburn, Mark Silcox

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1 The Game inside the Mind, the Mind inside the Game (The Nintendo Wii Gaming Console)

2 I, Player: The Puzzle of Personal Identity (MMORPGS and Virtual Communities)

3 Artificial and Human Intelligence (Single-Player RPGs)

4 The Metaphysics of Interactive Art (Puzzle and Adventure Games)

5 Do Video Games Make us Evil? (First-Person Shooters)

6 Games and God’s Goodness (World-Builder and Tycoon Games)

7 Epilogue: Video Games and the Meaning of Life

Dominic Lopes

What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?

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Published 8/25/2009 | 978-0-415-54762-8