C. Thi Nguyen

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Country	United States
Institutional affiliation	Utah Valley University
Title	Assistant Professor
Research interests relevant to game philosophy	I am interested in discussions of the value of games, the discussion of whether games are an art form and what sort of art form they could be. I am particularly interested in accounts of what it is to play a game, and different values that may accrue to games.
Publications and presentations relevant to game philosophy	BOOK My book, “Games: Agency as Art” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. The first chapter is available, as a preview, here: https://www.academia.edu/35907234/Games_Agency_as_Art ARTICLES Many of the below publications are available at https://objectionable.net/philosophy/ “Philosophy of Games”, Philosophy Compass, 12 (8), 2017 “Competition as Cooperation,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (44) 1, 2017: 123-37. “The Forms and Fluidity of Game Play,” Suits and Games, ed. Thomas Hurka, forthcoming. New York: Oxford University Press. “Games and the Moral Transformation of Violence,” The Aesthetics of Videogames, ed. Grant Tavinor and Jon Robson, forthcoming. New York: Routledge. “Good Violence, Bad Violence: the Ethics of Competition in Multiplayer Games” (with Jose Zagal), DiGRA/FDG ’16 – Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDD, 2016.
Keywords	aesthetics, agency, competition, violence, art, cooperation
Personal links	Personal website: http://objectionable.net Academia.edu page: https://uvu.academia.edu/ChrisNguyen
Name	C. Thi Nguyen
Background	Philosophy, Epistemology, Aesthetics, Value Theory, Metaethics