Ethics Afield

Field Notes of a Practical Philosopher


gaming

  • No Save Point

    I seem to have entered into a stage of life at which I find myself wrestling with regret more often than I might like. This doesn’t make me special in any way: generations of us humans, upon reaching a certain age, have said wistfully, “If I’d known then what I know now . . .”… Continue reading

  • Life Is Strange: Video Games and Moral Imagination (Spoilers!)

    I’ve spent a little too much time, in the past week or so, playing a game on my computer. The game in question, with the deceptively trite title Life Is Strange, is an example of what may be an emerging genre in video games: a graphic adventure game that amounts to an especially rich and… Continue reading