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The incorrigible social meaning of video game imagery
- Stephanie Patridge
- Sociology
- Ethics and Information Technology
- 1 December 2011
In this paper, I consider a particular amoralist challenge against those who would morally criticize our single-player video play, viz., “come on, it’s only a game!” The amoralist challenge with… Expand
Pornography, ethics, and video games
- Stephanie Patridge
- Sociology
- Ethics and Information Technology
- 1 March 2013
In a recent and provocative essay, Christopher Bartel attempts to resolve the gamer’s dilemma. The dilemma, formulated by Morgan Luck, goes as follows: there is no principled distinction between… Expand
Monstrous Thoughts and the Moral Identity Thesis
- Stephanie Patridge
- Sociology
- 15 March 2008
We often find ourselves deep in moral conversations about artworks in which we willfully subject them to moral evaluation. We claim that the endorsement of racism in Birth of a Nation is repugnant,… Expand
Moral Vices as Artistic Virtues: Eugene Onegin and Alice
- Stephanie Patridge
- Philosophy
- 1 June 2008
Moralists hold that art criticism can and should take stock of moral considerations. Though moralists disagree over the proper scope of ethical art criticism, they are unified in their acceptance of… Expand
Against the Moralistic Fallacy: A Modest Defense of a Modest Sentimentalism about Humor
- A. Jordan, Stephanie Patridge
- Psychology
- 1 February 2012
In a series of important papers, Justin D’Arms and Daniel Jacobson argue that all extant neo-sentimentalists are guilty of a conflation error that they call the moralistic fallacy. One commits the… Expand
Exclusivism and Evaluation: Art, Erotica and Pornography
- Stephanie Patridge
- Philosophy
- 2013
Exclusivists maintain that art cannot be pornography. For example, Jerrold Levinson claims that ‘the extension of the term “pornographic art” is by definition the null set’ and that ‘pornographic art… Expand