Philosophy

The aim of this workshop in the philosophy of games is to provide a space for discussion of how games can play a role in helping players explore, experiment, and reason in ways that are unique or well-suited to games (including video games, board games, role-playing games, party games, etc.).

Schedule of Talks:
Friday, September 27th
Session 1: Boundaries between Games and Agents (Maples, Virtue Room – 2nd Floor)
9-9:50: Alexander Carty (McGill University), “Video Games and Hypocritical Blame”
10-10:50: Ida Miczke and Reid Kurashige (University of Warsaw and UC Berkeley), “From Play to Morality: Games as a Model for Partially Self-Effacing Ethical Theories”
11-11:50: Keilee Bessho (UC Riverside), “Creating Winning Conditions: In Games and Beyond”
Lunch Break, 12-12:55pm
Session 2: Play and Goals (Maples, Virtue Room – 2nd Floor)
1-1:50: Ronni Gura Sadovsky (Trinity University), “The Grading Scheme as a Scoring System”
2-2:50: Mark Jensen and Nathan Jensen (U.S. Air Force Academy and Colorado School of Mines), “Playing Games and Gaming Play: Navigating the Intersection of Concepts in Tension”
3-3:50: Nicholas Baima and Sarah Malanowski (Florida Atlantic University), “Tryhards, Cheats, and the Playing the META”

Saturday, September 28th
Session 3: Acting in Games (Maples, Virtue Room – 2nd Floor)
9-9:50: Gareth Fuller (UMaine Farmington), “Teaching Compassion Through Games”
10-10:50: Luke Ford (The New School), “Bad Games for Bad People: Playing at the Edge of Taste”
11-11:50: Tobias Flattery (Wake Forest University), “May Nguyenian Kantians Commit Virtual Killings?”
Lunch Break, 12-12:55pm
Session 4: Games as Models (Maples, Virtue Room – 2nd Floor)
1-1:50: Andrew Kingston (Maine Maritime Academy), “Stars in the Dice: Cosmic Contingency in the History of Stochastic Games”
2-2:50: Ricky Mouser (John Hopkins University), “Quantification is Commensuration”
3-3:50: Robby Finley (UMaine Orono), “Games and Logic: Tool, Model, or More?”