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Virtue Theory and Video Games Level Up Your Character
Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Level-Up Your Character Sarah C. Malanowski & Nicholas R. Baima Part 1: The Promise and Perils of a Video Game Virtue Ethics 1. The Particular Aptitude of Virtue for Video Game Ethics Deniz A. van den Woldenberg 2. Don’t Play That Game: Can Simulations Inculcate Vice? Susan Kennedy & Erick Jose Ramirez 3. Would the Virtuous Gamer Virtually Murder an NPC? Garry Young 4. Virtue-al Ethics? Michael Hemmingsen 5. XP for the Soul: Video Games, Ethical Learning, and Cognitive Tools Jay Orpana, Andy Clark, Ben White and Laura Desiree Di Paolo Part 2: Video Game Virtues and Vices 6. “Good Time to Take … Inventory”: The Need for Playfulness in the Good Life Anna B. Christensen 7. Using Video Games to Cultivate Patience Andrew Kissel 8. Tryhards, Slouches, and the Seemly Gamer Sarah C. Malanowski & Nicholas R. Baima 9. Cheap Tactics in Competitive Gaming Tobias Flattery 10. The Moral Status of Griefing Kenneth R. Pike Part 3: Gaming Friends and Community 11. Befriending Video Game Characters Christopher Bartel 12. Virtual Friendship Reconsidered: Sociality and User-Friendly Design in Gaming Christopher D. Quintana 13. I Thought You Were My Friend: Livestreaming, Friendships of Presence, and the Hazards of Illusory Intimacy boomer trujillo 14. Video Games and Mourning Alexis Elder 15. How Cosplay Can Cultivate Virtue Madeleine Antonellos & Simon Coghlan Index
Biography
Sarah C. Malanowski is an instructor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. She specializes in the philosophy of cognitive science, biomedical ethics, and the philosophy of games. Her work has appeared in Bioethics, Synthese, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, and Neuroethics. She is the coauthor, with Nicholas R. Baima, of Why It’s OK to Be a Gamer (Routledge 2024).
Nicholas R. Baima is an associate professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He works in ancient philosophy, ethical theory, and the philosophy of games. He is the coauthor, with Sarah C. Malanowski, of Why It’s OK to Be a Gamer (Routledge 2024) and the coauthor, with Tyler Paytas, of Plato’s Pragmatism: Rethinking the Relationship Between Ethics and Epistemology (Routledge 2021).
“This volume opens up an important new area of inquiry. It makes a strong contribution to the broad project of understanding how we should live with electronic media.”
Michael Madary, University of the Pacific, USA
