Readings

Introductory

Click here to access the Introduction reading.

Click here to access my Philosophy Dictionary reading.

Full Texts

• Click here to access the Grant Tavinor reading.
• Click here to access the Bernard Suits reading.
• Click here to access the Livingston reading (Ch33).
• Click here to access the Salmon reading (Ch2), and click here to access a handout explaining some of the logic needed for this reading.

Interactivity and Video Games

• Click here to access What is interactivity?.
• Click here to access The ontology of interactive art.

Violence and Video Games

• Click here to access Is it wrong to play violent video games.
• Click here to access Locating the wrongness in ultra-violent video games.
• Click here to access Defending the morality of violent video games.
• Click here to access Art, morality and ethics.

The Gamers Dilemma

• Click here to access The gamer’s dilemma.
• Click here to access Resolving the gamer’s dilemma.
• Click here to access Pornography, ethics, and video games.
• Click here to access Has Bartel resolved the gamer’s dilemma?.

Affective Fiction

• Click here to access The puzzle of imaginative resistance.
• Click here to access How we can be moved by Anna Karenina, green slime, and a red pony?.
• Click here to access Fearing fictions.

Are Video Games Art?

• Click here to access Are video games art?.
• Click here to access Categories of art.
• Click here to access Kendall Walton’s 'Categories of art': a critical commentary.