Agency, Stability, and Permeability in "Games"
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19525199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabeth Camp (0000-0003-3919-495X, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 448-462 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-3061 • E-ISSN: 1559-3061 |
| Publisher | Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26556/jesp.v23i3.2707 |
| OpenAlex | W4318203702 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
In “Games and the Art of Agency,” Thi Nguyen argues that games both highlight and foster a profound complexity in human motivation, in the form of “purposeful and managed agential disunity.” I agree that human agency is “fluid and fleeting” rather than stable and unified; but I argue that Nguyen’s analysis itself relies on a traditional conception of selves as enduring goal-driven agents which his discussion calls into question. Without this conception, games look more like life, and both look riskier, than we might otherwise hope
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Sociology · Doping in Sports · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |