The Philosophy of Games with C. Thi Nguyen

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Playing games is a fundamental human activity. But despite their ubiquity, they’ve never gotten the serious study from scholars they deserve. Why do we play them? And what, exactly, ARE games? On the show this week is C. Thi Nguyen, philosophy professor at University of Utah, and author of the book, Games: Agency as Art. Check it out at factuallypod.com/books. You can also find the first chapter free online here: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=NGUTAO-8&aid=NGUTAO-8v1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
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0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	You have to get over it.
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0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to Factually.
0:30.0	I'm Adam Connover.
0:31.0	Thank you so much for joining me once again.
0:34.0	As I do my favorite thing in the world,
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0:38.0	about all the incredible things that they know
0:40.0	that I don't know and that you might not know.
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