Dogmatism often seems to come packaged with a mood of grim and unpleasant
humorlessness. This chapter looks to see if there might be some plausible cognitive function …

Game Studies - Defining the Videogame Game Studies volume 15 issue 2 December 2015
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The drive to decolonize the academy has led to the reconstruction of old understandings, yet
much of the critical studies tradition does little more than add “data” from colonially …

Drawing on some broader social processes, the main purpose of this paper is to argue that
some modern conceptualisations and understandings of physical activity can go hand in …

This chapter brings a philosophical perspective to play as an essential feature of life through
considering both what philosophers past and present have to say about it and the …

Even though many sport philosophers have worked to delineate clear definitions of play and
games, typical language usage often conflates the two phenomena and even provides an …

Distinguished for the game-parabling expressed in The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and
Utopia, Bernard Suits is revered as the author of the unorthodox claim that Utopia is …

This chapter focuses on the relation between'philosophy'and'games' and argues most of
philosophy is a form of game-playing. Wittgenstein's concept of'family resemblance'contends …

This thesis connects the concepts of participation and play in higher education (HE), both of
which are familiar themes in education literature. The former is typically seen as a …

The Empire has many edges. Some are spatial, some are temporal, some are ontological,
some are epistemological, but all are relational. Edge presumes a centre, and being asked …