C Thi Nguyen: Agency, Aesthetics, & The Philosophy of Games | Robinson's Podcast #34

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

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