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The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality: Building WorldsRoutledge. 2021.This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences. The author provides compelling evidence that VR simulations are capable of producing "virtually real" experiences in people. He also provides a framework for understanding when and how simulations induce virtually real experiences. From these insigh…Read more
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Review of Heidi M. Ravven, The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will: New York: The New Press, 2013 (review)Neuroethics 7 (2): 251-252. 2013.The Self Beyond Itself is a defense of an incompatibilist, hard determinist view of free will. Free will is here defined in a very strong sense, as the existence of actions that do not result from any causes other than the agent herself. The question of how to define free will, especially whether it consists in the ability to do otherwise, and what the ability to do otherwise amounts to, is not given much consideration in this book.Ravven frames her work in a broad historical context. The kind o…Read more
The City University Of New York Graduate Center
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
APA Central Division
Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Linguistics |
Theories of Truth |
Deflationism about Truth |
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
Machine Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Teaching Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |