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Zero Books Trilogy

Foreword

A Brief Introduction to My Philosophy
Player's Handbook
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Republic of Bloggers

Beyond Space
Wisdom in Practice
The Game of Art
Knowing That We Know
The Politeness of Tutorials (Japanese vs. Western Game Design)
Horror and Punishment (Silent Hill 2)
The Merit of Letters
Latour contra Badiou
The Echoes of Genre
Expertise as Involvement
The Dragon of Chaos
The Value of Art
The Rules of Game Worlds
Games, Guns, and Gender
Taxation as Injustice
Prelude: Virtuous Discourse
What is the Republic of Bloggers?

My Blogs

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Game Design

Science Fiction & Fantasy

A Study in Psylocke
Corporate Megatexts
Exterminate! The Dalek and the Drone Assassin
Fifty Differences Between The Desolation of Smaug and Tolkien's Work
Faithful Adaptation and The Hobbit
Cyberpunk is Dead
Moorcock on Fiction (Interview)
Orthodox Science Fiction
Religion in Science Fiction
Moorcock's Metaphysics

Philosophy of Science

Magical Science
What is Pseudoscience?
Reiss Against Adaptation (Interview)
Midgley on Philosophy (Interview)
Myths of Evolution
Science vs Creationism
Ethics of Science
The Mythology of Science
Genes and Behaviour
Trust in Science
Teleological Games
The Boundary of Science
Cognitive Dissonance
Popper's Milestone
Skeptics
Farewell to Reason

Political Philosophy

The Seduction of Facts
No-one is Independent
Creedism
The Activist's Argument (Everything is Political)
Freedom of Belief
Global Population
Ethics of War
Civil Disobedience
The Prime Directive
The Mandate of Heaven (Political Legitimacy)
Hannah Arendt's "The Human Condition"

Philosophy: Fictionalism

Mimesis as Make-Believe (Serial)
Game Design as Make-Believe (Serial)
Walton on Make-Believe (Interview)
Pluto and Eris - a dialogue
The Authorized Stories
Yablo on Fictionalism (Interview)

Philosophy: Epistemology

Why the Wikipedia Knows Nothing
Knowledge as a Practice
Knowing That We Know
The Subjective Knowledge of Squirrels

Philosophy of Mind

Voiding The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Is Free Will Too Cheap?

Philosophy: Ethics

Allen Wood on Ethics (Interview)
Getting Wasted (A Moral Question)
The Ultimate Moral Computer?
Alain Badiou's Truth
A Categorical Imperative for the Other
Midgley on Philosophy (Interview)
Enemy: A Morality Tale (Pentenary Special)
Joanna Zylinska on Bioethics (Interview)
Abortion vs Suicide
Freedom of Belief
Future Ethics (Consequentialism)
Ethics of Metaphysics
Kant's Yardstick
Tit for Tat (Selfishness)
Duty, Virtue and Consequences
The Golden Rule
Relative Ethics
Preface

Philosophy: Metaphysics

Introduction
Popper's Milestone
Marxism
A Deck of Realities
Fate
Ethics of Metaphysics
Rumours of God's Death
Absurd Doubts
Immortality
Kant's Critique of Judgement
Midgley on Philosophy (Interview)
Immortality Stories

Philosophy of Language

Language Games
This is Not a Tomato
The Power of Words (Hypnosis)
The Stories We Tell

Idealistic Themes

Bucky's Big Idea (a Global Energy Network)
Mutual Respect & Communal Autonomy (Kant's Ethics)
Freedom of Belief

Temperament

Preamble: The Human Operating System
Introduction to Temperament Theory
Justifications and Criticisms
Statistical Disclaimer
1. Rational
2. Guardian
3. Artisan
4. Idealist

Religion/Non-religion

Ontology as Non-Theology
Haught on Theology (Interview)
Immortality Stories
Science and the Sacred
Creedism
Religion in Science Fiction
Islamophobia!
Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age"
Don't Talk About Creationism, Or Else
Christianity & Contraception
Hemp: The Illegal Sacrament
God's Dice
The Meaning of Life
Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"
Pascal's Wager & the Agnostic's Lemma
The Religious Cold War
Sufi
Einstein & God

Rambling Nonsense

The Science Pope?
Don't Believe in Cthulhu
Reality, Optional
Considering Politics
Thought for Food

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