Now officially out: my first book, Games: Agency as Art. Thanks to Oxford University for making this all happen! The book says that games are a distinctive art form — one very different from the traditional arts. Game designers don’t just … Continue reading →| Objectionable
My new article The Arts of Action is out now in Philosopher’s Imprint! This article is kind of intensely personal – perhaps awkwardly so, for an academic article. I realized, while I was writing it, that it was distilling basically … Continue reading →| Objectionable
My paper, Games and the art of agency, is now forthcoming at Philosophical Review. The paper argues that games are the art form of agency. Game designers don’t just create worlds, or stories. They tell us who we will be in … Continue reading →| Objectionable
From 1958 to 1982, two adept philosophers—Monroe Beardsley and George Dickie—debated each other through their books and articles about the nature of aesthetic experience. By seeing the different at…| Aesthetics Research Lab