The Philosophy of Computer Games – book published free on the web

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DIGAREC, the Digital Games Research Center of the University of Potsdam, published a book about Game Philosophy, that is freely available on the web. The contents are the proceedings of a conference, that was held in May 2008. It covers three topics, that should be relevant to philosophical questions about games: ethics and politics, the action-space of games, and the magic circle. The latter is dealing with the border between games and non-games. The book in total has 344 pages. Direct download pdf.

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Research and Theory - Date published: February 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

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  1. partikelfernsteuerung said:

    You might want to check the spelling, it’s “DIGAREC” with “C”. The link is correct, though.

    Posted on February 16th, 2009 at 17:08
  2. Martin Wisniowski said:

    Thanks a lot. It ws a little bit late yesterday.

    Posted on February 16th, 2009 at 18:23
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