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Foreword

A Brief Introduction to My Philosophy
Player's Handbook
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How Can Humanity Reach the Tenth Millennium...?

1. The Tenth Millennium
Imagining the future: Frank Herbert's Dune versus Isaac Asimov's Foundation
2. Assembling the Future
Memory of the past, knowledge of the future. Assembling a plurality of reciprocal collectives.
3. Sustaining the Present
Rejecting accelerating technology. Neutral population growth without abandoning families.
4. Restoring the Commons
Securing solidarity by eliminating poverty. New commons to aid in the subsistence of all.
5. The Ascenturian Collectives
Who are the Ascenturians? Can they open a path for humanity to survive until the Tenth Millennium?

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

Only a Game (Philosophy)
ihobo (Games and Game Design)
Shadowtail (Squirrels!)

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

Other Curiosities

Agent Swarm
Agoners
All Ontologies Blazing
Always Curious
Angie Hobbs' Blog
Casual Game Design
Collision Detection
Cult of The Turtle
Curiouser and curiouser!
Design Synthesis
Dragonsfoot
Feet of Clay
First Person Scholar
Future Of Videogames
Retro Remakes
Game Bias (Jed Pressgrove)
Game Girl Advance
Game of Design
Game Ontology Project
GameProducer.Net
Games * Design * Art * Culture
Gausswerks
Ghosts in the Game
Grumpy Gamer
IEEE Task Force on Player Satisfaction Modeling
Industry Broadcast
Jay is
Jeroen D Stout's Tumblr
Journals of Doc Surge
King Lud IC
LCAD Art of Game Design MFA
Lost Garden
Ludus Novus
Man Bytes Blog
Monica’s Mind
Nature is not a Book
Neil Gaiman's Journal
Nongames.com
Notes on Game Dev
Omnivangelist
Out There
Philosophy and Life
Philosophy of Religion
Postcards From The Uncanny Valley
Purse Lip Square Jaw
Raph’s Website
Raven's Nest
Repeater Books
Science In Crisis
Science is a method, not a position
Science Pope
SIG: Cheap Speech
SIG: Christy Marx
SIG: Coray Seifert
SIG: Garbage Dump
SIG: Mildly Diverting
SIG: Red Flag
SIG: Richard Dansky
SIG: Subversified
SIG: Writing & Design
Sinistre and Destre’s noumenal realm
Slam
Snarkmarket
Sub Specie (Oscar Strik)
SubGamers
Susan Olmetti (Abstract Artist)
Synthetic Zero
Tea Leaves
Terra Nova
The Artful Gamer
The Designer's Notebook
The Dust Forms Words
The Kryptonite Cafe
The Lotus Window
The Thoughts of Chairman Bill
The World-Cave
Tiny Subversions
Top Of Cool
Wonderland
zenBen's Land of Words
Zero Books