Patrick John Coppock

• University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

This article explores the ludic interface design potential of combining interactivity and playfulness, where the former term is understood as some specific type, degree or quality of interaction possessed by a component, or aspect, of some interactional system, be it human- human, human-machine, or human-environment, and where the latter term is un...

Abstracts deadline: 15 August 2014 We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 8th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Istanbul 13-15 November 2014. The concept of freedom is central in the shaping of game exp...

The seven articles that constitute this special issue illustrate scholarly interactions between philosophy and game studies. The wide range of game types/genres and the multiple philosophical issues concerning them are rich and productive. They indicate well the significant contribution that philosophical approaches can make to further development...

Linguistically, and more specifically, semantically and pragmatically speaking, the term "agency" has been, and still is, attributed a wide range of different meanings, some of which refer to observable cultural actualities that are fairly tangible in character, others less so. This paper examines a selection of some more or less common meanings th...

This contribution argues principally that we ought to be able to conceive of computer games as ontologically real since they embody, like any other component of our broader, culturally endowed and constructed, sense of reality, characteristic aspects of three principal types of cultural units that we shall refer to as material, immaterial and media...

Semiotics draws inspiration for its qualitative methodologies from many fields of scientific and cultural discourse. It aims to understand cultural production and interpretation practices by way of core theoretical notions such as narrativity, enunciation, encyclopedia, and textual openness. A continual refinement and renewal of these notions is dr...

Premise; Is it conceivable for "us" to actually be "here, there and everywhere" at one and the same time? In the 1960's the Beatles sang: "here, there, everywhere [ S ] changing my life with a wave of her hand", to express (we presume) the power of (romantic) love to profoundly change one's sense of self in different ways and situations, and thus,...

The principle question discussed in this essay is essentially a philosophical or existential one: in our increasingly remediated, interconnected, physically and virtually mobile contemporary world, is it is conceivable, or feasible, for us actually to be “here, there, and everywhere” at one and the same time? Have our predominantly “local” persona...

L'A. examine les problemes philosophiques et methodologiques poses par une etude sur la maniere dont les textes scientifiques d'auteurs novices et les normes d'interaction changent lors de l'utilisation d'environnements virtuels repartis (ex : World Wide Web sur Internet) pour collaborer a un ecrit scientifique. En effet, les occasions pour discute...

Premeditation Before I begin I would like to draw your attention to something that a philosopher friend of mine at the University of Trondheim pointed out as an obvious anomaly in my title when I first showed her a draft version of this paper, namely, the word 'diachronicity'. Let me assure you the reader, then, that my choice (and I believe, inven...

The paper presents results from the evaluation of a prototype video telephone developed by Tandberg Telecom A/S and the Norwegian Telecom Research Department (NTRD) using communication in Norwegian sign language. Eight deaf informants were asked to use the video telephone to communicate in sign between Oslo and Trondheim. Videotape recordings were...

Deaf people, although members of majority cultures largely constituted by the languages and lives of hearing people, also belong to minority cultures constituted by the sign languages and lives of deaf people. Sign language interpreters act as mediators of communication during encounters between representatives of these two cultures, with the expre...

Science patcop@unimore.it In this article 2 I shall examine some convergences between Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism and contemporary semiotics, with par-ticular reference to the Umberto Eco's theory of general semiotics, rooted phi-losophically in pragmaticism, Charles Sanders Peirce's normative theory of inquiry. I shall first di...

The genius of a man's logical method should be loved and reverenced as his bride, whom he has chosen from all the world. He need not condemn the others; on the contrary, he may honor them deeply, and in doing so he only honors her more. But she is the one that he has chosen, and he knows that he was right in making that choice. And having made it,...