{"id":13193,"date":"2024-02-02T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/video-games-can-teach-us-more-about-philosophy-than-books-if-only-theyd-dare\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:38:35","slug":"video-games-can-teach-us-more-about-philosophy-than-books-if-only-theyd-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/video-games-can-teach-us-more-about-philosophy-than-books-if-only-theyd-dare\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games can teach us more about philosophy than books \u2013 if only they\u2019d dare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genuine moral dilemmas are frustratingly rare in gaming \u2013 change that, and we could learn more about ourselves than any book might teach us <\/p>\n

I am at a fortunate stage of my parenting journey where I have a son old enough to have a girlfriend smart enough to give genuinely thoughtful gifts to her boyfriend\u2019s dad at Christmas. This is how I came to unwrap Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us (About Life, Philosophy and Everything)<\/a> by Jordan Erica Webber and Daniel Griliopoulos. Books are a risky thing to give as gifts because they, like video games, require an investment of time. You don\u2019t throw them on calloused feet like a sock or slap them about your tired face like an aftershave. Or vice versa depending on the smell of your feet or coldness of your face.<\/p>\n

I find academic books about video games personally ironic because in the 90s I wrote and presented a BBC Radio 4 show called Are Books Dead? where I argued that video games had made the written word redundant. This was obviously a stupid question, but this was the decade of making loud statements without requiring intelligence to back them up, just one of the reasons it was such a glorious time to be alive, and why Liam Gallagher was its hero.<\/p>\n

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\nGenuine moral dilemmas are frustratingly rare in gaming \u2013 change that, and we could learn more about ourselves than any book might teach us
\nI am at a fortunate stage of my parenting journey where I have a son old enough to have a girlfriend smart enough to give genuinely thoughtful gifts to her boyfriend\u2019s dad at Christmas. This is how I came to unwrap Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us (About Life, Philosophy and Everything) by Jordan Erica Webber and Daniel Griliopoulos. Books are a risky thing to give as gifts because they, like video games, require an investment of time. You don\u2019t throw them on calloused feet like a sock or slap them about your tired face like an aftershave. Or vice versa depending on the smell of your feet or coldness of your face.
\nI find academic books about video games personally ironic because in the 90s I wrote and presented a BBC Radio 4 show called Are Books Dead? where I argued that video games had made the written word redundant. This was obviously a stupid question, but this was the decade of making loud statements without requiring intelligence to back them up, just one of the reasons it was such a glorious time to be alive, and why Liam Gallagher was its hero. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genuine moral dilemmas are frustratingly rare in gaming \u2013 change that, and we could learn more about ourselves than any book might teach us I am at a fortunate stage of my parenting journey where I have a son old enough to have a girlfriend smart enough to give genuinely thoughtful gifts to her boyfriend\u2019s …<\/p>\n

Video games can teach us more about philosophy than books \u2013 if only they\u2019d dare<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}