The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to our mental health and wellbeing. Can aesthetics help us out? Continue reading
May 10, 2021
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March 11, 2021
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Southern Aesthetics Workshop X Aesthetics for Birds [Full Video]
The full recording of our recent workshop Continue reading
February 12, 2021
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The House Never Loses: How Microtransactions Exploit Video Game Players
The context of gameplay, the enchanting interactive and immersive effects, plays a role in limiting rationality and enabling exploitation. Continue reading
August 3, 2020
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Why I Use Dungeons & Dragons to Teach Ethics
Role-playing games have a lot to teach us about the importance of community and playfulness in the classroom. Continue reading
December 6, 2019
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GAME EXPERTS RANK THEIR TOP 5 GAMES OF THE DECADE
This year marks the end of the second decade of the 2000s. In honor of this, we thought we’d take a look back at our decade with an end-of-year series. The internet loves lists, especially year-end ones, and we’ll feed … Continue reading
August 21, 2019
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PLAYING GAMES WITH HISTORY: PHILOSOPHERS ON THE ETHICS OF HISTORICAL BOARD GAMES
In a recent New York Times article, journalist Kevin Draper brings us up to date on some recent controversies in the world of historical board games. The article centers on the cancellation of Scramble for Africa, a historical board game which was … Continue reading
March 6, 2019
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IS COMMANDER SHEPARD FEMALE? DETERMINING CANON IN VIDEO GAMES
What follows is a post in our JAAC x AFB collaborative series, where we highlight articles from the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. This post features Marissa D. Willis’ recent paper, “Choose Your Own Adventure: Examining the Fictional Content … Continue reading
July 3, 2018
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WHY FASHION IS MORE THAN A MERE CONSUMER OBJECT
What follows is a guest post by Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University). Perhaps we can agree on the fact that philosophers have not, for the most part, taken fashion very seriously. There seems to be something wrong, specifically, about … Continue reading
February 28, 2017
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*THIS THURSDAY* JAAC x AFB DISCUSSION: TAVINOR ON VIDEO GAMES
Just another reminder that the next JAAC x AFB Discussion will be appearing this Thursday, March 2. We will be looking at “What’s My Motivation? Video Games and Interpretive Performance” (abstract below the fold) by Grant Tavinor, available in JAAC’s Winter 2017 … Continue reading
February 21, 2017
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UPCOMING JAAC x AFB DISCUSSION: TAVINOR ON VIDEO GAMES
The third JAAC x AFB Discussion will be appearing next Thursday, March 2. We will be looking at “What’s My Motivation? Video Games and Interpretive Performance” (abstract below the fold) by Grant Tavinor, available in JAAC’s Winter 2017 volume, 75 (1), online … Continue reading
