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Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma

Examining the Moral and Psychological Differences between Virtual Murder and Virtual Paedophilia

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvGarry Young

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This book explores the gamer’s dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral permission of virtual murder would also appear to morally permit virtual paedophilia.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-29
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
Antal sidor139
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319835457

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Garry Young is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research and teaching focus is the ethics of enacting real-life taboos within virtual environments such as video games, the phenomenology of delusions and embodied cognition. He has published widely on topics including ethics in video games, notions of self in cyberspace, the Capgras and Cotard delusions, and differences between procedural and declarative knowledge.

Chapter 1. Introducing the Gamer’s Dilemma.- Chapter 2. Social Convention and the Likelihood of Harm: Luck’s Initial Attempts at Resolving the Dilemma.- Chapter 3. Motivation, Discrimination and Special Status: Luck’s Further Attempts at Resolving the Dilemma.- Chapter 4. Virtual Paedophilia as child pornography and the harm done to women: Bartel’s attempt at Resolving the Dilemma.- Chapter 5. Targeting Morally Irrelevant Characteristics and the Need for Context: Further Attempts at Resolving the Dilemma.- Chapter 6. A New Approach to Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma: Applying Constructive Ecumenical Expressivism.

“Young brings together the dilemma and the three best known responses to it and analyzes them all, to provide the reader with a new perspective on this issue as well as contributing his own novel attempt at resolving the dilemma. … useful to academics, gamers, and to anyone interested in the philosophy of video games. … recommend this book to anyone specifically interested in the Gamer’s Dilemma or as an interesting introduction to the philosophy of video games … .” (Ryan Dennison, Ethics and Information Technology, Vol. 19, 2017)