Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools

How to Philosophize with a Digital Hammer

  • Book
  • © 2015

Overview

Authors:
  1. Stefano Gualeni

    1. University of Malta, Malta

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. The Questions Concerning Digital Technology

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 1-21

  3. A Reflection on Metaphysical Thought and Its Technological “Overcoming”

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 22-42

  4. Worlds in the Age of Digital Simulation

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 43-59

  5. Thinking with Virtual Worlds

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 60-79

  6. Augmented Ontologies and a Challenge to Western Philosophy: Videogames and Simulations as Mediators of Human Thought and Experience

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 80-98

  7. Positionality in the Digital Age: Virtual Bodies and the Effects of Virtual Experiences

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 99-129

  8. Virtual Worlds as Poetic Allegories

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 130-149

  9. Virtual Worlds and the Human Condition: Cognitive, Perceptual, Critical, and Operational Limitations

    • Stefano Gualeni
    Pages 150-164

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 165-194
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Who are we in simulated worlds? Will experiencing worlds that are not 'actual' change our ways of structuring thought? Can virtual worlds open up new possibilities to philosophize? Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools tries to answer these questions from a perspective that combines philosophy of technology with videogame design.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Malta, Malta

    Stefano Gualeni

About the author

Stefano Gualeni is a philosopher and videogame designer. He released his first commercial video game at the age of sixteen and gained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Gualeni lectures and researches in game design, game studies, and the philosophy of technology at the Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation