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Resolving the Gamer's Dilemma -- Contents -- 1 Introducing the Gamer's Dilemma -- 1.1 Virtual Murder: The Current State of Play -- 1.2 The Gamer's Dilemma -- 1.2.1 A Brief Overview -- 1.2.2 The Homogeneity of Virtual Murder -- 1.3 The Legal Status of Virtual Child Pornography in the USA and UK -- 1.3.1 US Legislation -- 1.3.2 UK Legislation -- 1.4 Some Closing Remarks -- Notes -- 2 Social Convention and the Likelihood of Harm: Luck's Initial Attempts at Resolving the Dilemma -- 2.1 An Appeal to Social Convention -- 2.1.1 Manga: Reflecting Japanese Social Convention

Ethics in the Virtual World examines the gamer''s enactment of taboo activities in the context of both traditional and contemporary philosophical approaches to morality. The book argues that it is more productive to consider what individuals are able to cope with psychologically than to determine whether a virtual act or representation is necessarily good or bad. The book raises pertinent questions about one of the most rapidly expanding leisure pursuits in western culture: should virtual enactments warrant moral interest? Should there be a limit to what can be enacted or represented within th

AbstractIn this paper I defend the traditional anti-intellectualist claim that a form of knowing how to Φ (e.g., knowing how to play the guitar) exists that entails the ability to Φ (play the guitar), and that this knowledge cannot be reduced to propositions (such as 'S knows a way w to Φ', where w is a means of Φing). I also argue that S can know how to Φ in the absence of the ability to Φ, and for this knowledge to be likewise irreducible to propositions. This is made possible when one distinguishes between type and token actions. Moreover, I contend that type and token actions, and one's ability to engage in them, are differentiated at the level of motor representations. Motor representations provide an alternate means of grading knowledge how to that presented by Carlotta Pavese, insofar as this form of gradable knowledge is likewise irreducible to propositions.