Jonathan Tuckett - The Cartesian Meditation of Pneuma: the Dasein of a Video Game Character
BSP Podcast27 Kesä 2018

Jonathan Tuckett - The Cartesian Meditation of Pneuma: the Dasein of a Video Game Character

This is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk

“A few seconds ago there was nothing. But now, here I am! There’s only one logical conclusion. I am God and this is my universe.”

The opening line to Pneuma: Breath of Life sets the scene for a video game that attempts something very odd for a video game to make the theme of its main story: Descartes’ cogito ergo sum—“I think, therefore I am”. Yet, this is exactly what this puzzle game seems to do; going so far, as the opening line indicates, as to critique Descartes’ formulation to suggest that the Cogito would think itself to be God. To a seasoned philosopher this “conclusion” may seem questionable, indeed some of the meditations that Pneuma proceeds to make from its position of deity would strike us as absurd and philosophically unsophisticated. But, as this paper means to show, this would be the very point of the game’s philosophical exploration: to show the absurdity of the Cartesian Meditation itself. Once this point is recognised, Pneuma reveals itself not to be an exploration of the Cogito, but an exploration of the being of Dasein. As such, contained in the seemingly absurd meditations of Pneuma are novel reflections on Heidegger’s notions of being-toward-death, authenticity and the they-self.

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(251)

Maya Mukamel - Black Academics’ Embodied Histories of Institutional Racism in Psychotherapy Education Settings

Maya Mukamel - Black Academics’ Embodied Histories of Institutional Racism in Psychotherapy Education Settings

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Maya Mukamel   Abstract: In this research, we employed a pheno...

7 Loka 22min

Mariah Partida - Solitary Confinement, Intercorporeal Being-in-the-world, and the Mutability of Consciousness

Mariah Partida - Solitary Confinement, Intercorporeal Being-in-the-world, and the Mutability of Consciousness

Season 9 concludes with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Mariah Partida   Abstract: My presentation will take a critica...

5 Loka 21min

James Costello - Radical Relationality

James Costello - Radical Relationality

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from James Costello   Abstract: The psychotherapist’s “in the momen...

2 Loka 18min

Mauro Senatore - The Dark Horizon: Post-traumatic Anxiety in Husserl’s Freiburg Ethics

Mauro Senatore - The Dark Horizon: Post-traumatic Anxiety in Husserl’s Freiburg Ethics

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Mauro Senatore   Abstract: In his Freiburg lectures on passive...

30 Syys 19min

Kylie Erfani - Nausea: A Phenomenological Reappraisal

Kylie Erfani - Nausea: A Phenomenological Reappraisal

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Kylie Erfani   Abstract: This essay explores the philosophical...

28 Syys 22min

Srijan Uzir - Comparing Derrida and Merleau-Ponty's philosophies of Embodiment and Language

Srijan Uzir - Comparing Derrida and Merleau-Ponty's philosophies of Embodiment and Language

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Srijan Uzir   Abstract: In the late text Le Toucher - Jean-Luc...

25 Syys 25min

Oda Davanger - Tracing Inscriptions: Can Signs be Embodied?

Oda Davanger - Tracing Inscriptions: Can Signs be Embodied?

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Oda Davanger   Abstract: The paper, “Tracing Inscriptions: Can...

23 Syys 24min

Adam Takacs - Touch and Contact. Towards a Phenomenology of “Stigmatic” Time

Adam Takacs - Touch and Contact. Towards a Phenomenology of “Stigmatic” Time

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Adam Takacs   Abstract: The traditional phenomenological appro...

21 Syys 23min

Suosittua kategoriassa Yhteiskunta

olipa-kerran-otsikko
seitseman
sita
siita-on-vaikea-puhua
i-dont-like-mondays
hupiklubi
uutiscast
poks
download
antin-palautepalvelu
mamma-mia
yopuolen-tarinoita-2
kaksi-aitia
kolme-kaannekohtaa
rss-murhan-anatomia
vallattomat
aikalisa
rss-palmujen-varjoissa
gogin-ja-janin-maailmanhistoria
kummitusjuttuja