Your complimentary articles

You’ve read all of your complimentary articles for this month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please

If you are a subscriber please sign in to your account.

To buy or renew a subscription please visit Subscriptions.

If you are a print subscriber you can contact us to create an online account.

News

News: May/June 2011

Identity in computer games • Philosophy depts fight closure • Lévy and the Libyan rebels — News reports by Sue Roberts

Games and Philosophy in Athens

The topics of academic conferences can sometimes give a good indication both of philosophy’s increasing specialisation and of its engagement with wider culture. In April, Athens played host to a conference on the ‘Philosophy of Computer Games’. Many of the papers dealt with the nature of personal identity as revealed in computer games. The keynote talk, for instance, was on ‘The Metaphysics of Avatars and Their Relation to Players’. Another was called ‘What is it Like to be a (Digital) Bat?’

Battling Philosophy Departments

A plan has been announced to scrap the Philosophy Department at Greenwich University in London.

…