Experience Machines : The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds /: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mark Silcox.
• Editors: Silcox, Mark
• Contents: Introduction: The Experience Machine - From Thought Experiment to (Virtual) Reality <span style="font-style:italic;">Mark Silcox / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part I: Virtual Experiences and Human Well-Being <span style="font-style:italic;"> / 1. Cypher’s Choices: The Variety and Reality of Virtual Experiences <span style="font-style:italic;">Peter Ludlow / 2. Intuition & Imaginative Failure <span style="font-style:italic;">Daniel Pietrucha / 3. Give me the Confidence: Nozick’s Experience Machine, Hedonism, and Confident Attitudinal Pleasures <span style="font-style:italic;">Emiliano Heyns & Johnny Hartz Søraker / 4. Ceci n'est pas un cuve.: Putnam’s Argument as Inclosure Paradox <span style="font-style:italic;">Jon Cogburn / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II: Real-World Experience Machines? <span style="font-style:italic;"> / 5) Virtual Reality and ‘Knowing What It’s Like’: The Epistemic Upside of Experience Machines <span style="font-style:italic;">E.M. Dadlez / 6. Figuring Out Who Your Real Friends Are <span style="font-style:italic;">Alexis Elder / 7) Welcome to the achievement machine; or, How to value and enjoy pointless things <span style="font-style:italic;">Grant Tavinor / 8) Virtual Weltschmerz: things to keep in mind while building experience machines and other tragic technologies <span style="font-style:italic;">Stefano Gualeni / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part III: Experiential Design: Problems and Prospects <span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;"> <span style="font-style:italic;">/ 9. The Problem of Evil in Virtual Worlds <span style="font-style:italic;">Brendan Shea / 10. Epistemic Lives and Knowing in Virtual Worlds <span style="font-style:italic;">James McBain / 11. Digital Tears Fell from Her Virtual Eyes, or The Ethics of Virtual Being <span style="font-style:italic;">Michael LaBossiere / 12. The morality of experience machines for palliative and end of life care, <span style="font-style:italic;">Dan Weijers and Russell DiSilvestro / 13. The Experience Machine and the End of the World (as we know it), <span style="font-style:italic;">Steven Montgomery About the Authors <span style="font-style:italic;">/ Bibliography
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Subjects: Philosophy: Political; Social Science: Media Studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786600691; 1786600692
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