Virtual Worlds and Their Challenge to Philosophy: Understanding the 'Intravirtual' and the 'Extravirtual'.
The Web, in particular real-time interactions in three-dimensional virtual environments (virtual worlds), comes with a set of unique characteristics that leave our traditional frameworks inapplicable. The present article illustrates this by arguing that the notion of 'technology relations,' as put f...
| Publicado en: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 499 - 513 |
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