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Country | Australia |
Institutional affiliation | Charles Sturt University |
Title | Associate Professor |
Research interests relevant to game philosophy | I am interested in the moral permissibility of actions performed within games. In particular, fictitious acts performed by players within computer games. One puzzle in this area I am considering is why we think murdering characters in computer games is sometimes OK (e.g. driving over an innocent pedestrian in GTA5), but raping characters in computer games is not. |
Publications and presentations relevant to game philosophy | Luck, M. ‘The Gamer’s Dilemma: An analysis of the arguments for the moral distinction between virtual murder and virtual paedophilia’. Ethics and Information Technology 11/1 (2009) Luck, M. ‘Crashing a Virtual Funeral: Morality in MMORPGs’. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society 7/4 (2009) 280 – 285 Luck, M. & Ellerby, N. ‘Has Bartel resolved the gamer’s dilemma?’ Ethics and Information Technology 15/3 (2013) Luck, M. ‘Formulating the Gamer’s Dilemma’ Video Games and Virtual Ethics Confernce (London: The Open University, 2017) (Keynote) |
Keywords | Gamer's Dilemma; Computer game ethics, |
Name | Morgan Luck |
Background | Philosophy |