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Introduction

The purpose of the conference is to initiate an investigation into how current research on computer games touches upon philosophical issues. In line with this purpose, the conference is interdisciplinary, drawing together researchers from very diverse fields: philosophy, computer game-theory, semiotics, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology.

The conference is a collaboration between the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo; the Center for Computer Game Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen; Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Science at the University of Modena/Reggio Emilia and the Philosophical Project Centre (FPS), Oslo.

The conference is the second international instalment of The Third Place, an ongoing project on philosophical problems arising from the increasing cultural/societal significance of computer games. The first instalment of the project, the conference “The Third Place: Computer Games and Our Conception of the Real”, was a shared initiative of FPS in Oslo and the Center for Computer Game Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen. That conference took place at the IT-University of Copenhagen on May 20-21, 2005.

The organizing committee consists of the following people:

 Olav Asheim,  professor at Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo

 Anita Leirfall, Ph D. candidate Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo

 John Richard Sageng, Ph. D. candidate Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo

Tarjei Mandt Larsen, Ph. D. candidate Department of Philosophy, University of Tromsø, Norway

 Hallvard Fossheim, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo

 Espen Aarseth, director at the Center for Computer Game Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen

 Patrick Coppock, assistant professor Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Science at the University of Modena/Reggio Emilia


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