C Thi Nguyen Agency Aesthetics amp The Philosophy of Games Robinsons Podcast 34

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C Thi Nguyen is a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Utah. Before that, he did his graduate work at UCLA, where he was also a food writer with the LA Times. Robinson and Thi talk about his book, Games: Agency as Art, along with why we call things porn, autonomy and aesthetic judgment, and the difficult epistemic situation of having to select which experts to rely on in fields where we can’t make our own informed decisions. • 00:00 Introduction • 2:00 Food Writing and Philosophy • 3:26 Autonomy and Aesthetic Judgment • 14:41 Where Did Pop Culture Get Games Wrong? • 20:28 Toward a Philosophical Definition of Games • 30:10 On Arts of Action and Object • 36:51 Why We Call Things Porn • 44:54 Distinguishing Good and Bad Games • 55:31 Thi's Favorite Games • 01:01:08 Video Game Physics • 01:04:53 Trust and Experts • 01:09:01 Public Philosophy • Instagram: @robinsonerhardt • TikTok: @robinsonerhardt • Twitch (Robinson Eats): @robinsonerhardt • YouTube (Robinson Eats): / @robinsoneats

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