This chapter contains sections titled: On Definition Theories of Gaming A Definition of Videogames.

This chapter contains sections titled: The Stories Games Tell Would You Kindly Put down That Wrench? Reconciling Games and Narratives.

This chapter contains sections titled: How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Niko Bellic? My Fear of Mutants The Role of the Emotions in Gaming.

This chapter contains sections titled: The Nature of Gaming What Are the Rules of This Game? Playing, Cheating, Fragging, and Griefing.

The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments.

This chapter contains sections titled: Welcome to Rapture Meet Niko Bellic Experiencing Game Worlds Acting in Game Worlds.

This chapter contains sections titled: The Problem with Crime Simulators Are Games Bad for You? On Being Offensive Sticking up for Videogames.

This chapter contains sections titled: Are Videogames Art? A Cluster Theory of Art The Art in Videogames New Art from Old Bottles.

This chapter contains sections titled: From Tennis for Two to Worlds of Warcraft Imaginary Worlds and Works of Fiction Fictional or Virtual? Interactive Fiction.

Ahlak, 21.yüzyıl insanının dikkate alması gereken temel bir varlık alanıdır. Bu alan içinde, bireysel ve toplumsal yaşamı yönlendiren erdem ve erdemsizlik tartışması önemli bir yer tutar. Bu makalede, Mevlana’nın görüşlerine özel atıfla, bir erdemsizlik örneği olarak vefasızlık üzerinde durulmaktadır.

This chapter explores some fundamental consequences of the correspondence between physical process and computations. Most physical questions may be answerable only through irreducible amounts of computation. Those that concern idealized limits of infinite time, volume, or numerical precision can require arbitrarily long computations, and so be considered formally undecidable. The behavior of a physical system may always be calculated by simulating explicitly each step in its evolution. Much of theoretical physics has, however, been concerned with devising shorter methods of calculation (...) that reproduce the outcome without tracing each step. Computational irreducibility is common among the systems investigated in mathematics and computation theory, but it may well be the exception rather than the rule, since most physical questions may be answerable only through irreducible amounts of computation. (shrink)

Examines 21 unquestioned assumptions that cloud our collective consciousness.

This study tests the hypothesis that the perception of philosophy as a male-oriented discipline contributes to the pronounced gender disparity within the field. To assess the hypothesis, we determined the extent to which individuals view philosophy as masculine, and whether individual differences in this correspond with greater identification with philosophy. We also tested whether identification with philosophy correlated to interest in it. We discovered, first, that the more women view philosophy as masculine, the less they identify with it, and second, (...) that the less women identify with philosophy, the less they want to major in it. Interestingly, this result does not hold for men—their viewing philosophy as masculine does not correspond to their identification with it, nor does it correlate with their likelihood of majoring in it. We also discovered that the typical student does not have a preconceived notion of philosophy as masculine; this suggests that they come to view philosophy as masculine the more they do it, which in turn supports the possibility that teaching the discipline differently may prevent students from conceiving of philosophy as masculine, thus allowing a path to reducing the gender disparity. (shrink)

The organizers and members of the international abstract review committee conducted anonymous review of all abstracts from the conference for merit based on relevance, originality, strength and clarity of methods and analyses, and overall contribution to the field of neuroethics. Here, we proudly introduce the collection of 21 top-ranked abstracts for the poster contest.