Hi all,
Sorry I’ve been lax in responding. Because of COVID and the fact that my spouse is medical personnel, I’ve been mostly doing childcare for most of my life. I will try to attend tomorrow’s meeting, but, again, I’m in charge of childcare for the period. (I may be able to play the meeting in the background and occasionally interject as I take care of kids.)
I have a lot to say about the relationship between GPN and the philosophy of sport, British Society of Aesthetics and American Society of Aesthetics, and analytic philosophy in general. Since I first attended GPN events, the philosophy of games has really taken off in the Anglo-American scene, and there’s a lot we can do to connect the two scenes. However, we’d first have to repair a perception of insider-ness and insularity that the Anglo-American scene has towards GPN. Some of this involves being clearer about the norms of interdisiciplinarity. I have become an organizer for both the ASA and the BSA, and it would also be easy for me to get people from the GPN scene invited to events, integrated into special panels, etc. for those societies.
I agree with John strongly about the workshops. One possibility, in the COVID era, with lack of funding: is simply to stage zoom conferences. Two worlds with which I am involved, the Social Epistemology Network and the Aesthetics for Birds group, have started weekly or biweekly zoom conferences. Attendance is excellent (50-200 people!), there’s been lots of interchange of ideas, and it is free to set-up, as long as somebody involved has an institutional Zoom account.
Finally, on the topic of introductory materials: a while back, I wrote and published, and am planning to update, an introductory literature review of analytic philosophy and analytic aesthetics work on games. I’ve gotten lots of feedback that this has helped new people get into this terrain. I’d be happy to make that content available for any GPN effort. I think it would be invaluable for there to be a similar review for the Game Studies side of things, as well as the continental philosophy side of things. But I am absolutely not the person to put together that review.