Saturday, August 18, 2012

Second Call for Papers for Philosophy & Technology’s special issue on Philosophy of Computer Games


Second Call  for Papers for Philosophy & Technology’s special issue on Philosophy of Computer Games (revised version)

GUEST EDITORS
Patrick Coppock, Olli Leino, Anita  Leirfall

INTRODUCTION

Over the last decade, computer games have received growing attention from academic fields as diverse as engineering, literary studies, sociology and learning studies. The international game philosophy initiative  (http://www.gamephilosophy.org)  aims to broaden the scope of this effort by facilitating discussion of philosophical issues emergent on our growing engagement with computer games. In doing so, we want to contribute to our own understandings of this phenomenon and to the establishment of a new philosophical focus area: the philosophy  of computer games, capable of taking its place alongside analogous areas such as the philosophy of film and the philosophy of literature. The initiative is the result of a seminar held in 2005, after Filosofisk Prosjektsenter, Oslo and the Department  of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas  at the University of Oslo, contacted Center  for Computer Games Research  at the IT-University of Copenhagen about organizing a workshop on philosophical problems linked to games research. Since then, an expanding group of partners have been involved in the effort.

CALL

Following the Sixth International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games  in Madrid, Spain from 29th to 31st  January 2012 (http://2012.gamephilosophy.org/), organized by ArsGames (http://www.arsgames.net/),  a special issue of Springer’s Philosophy  & Technology journal (http://www.springer.com/13347)  is now being planned. It will contain a selection of recently revised, peer reviewed articles from the Philosophy of Computer Games international conference series. Previous conferences in the series have been held in Copenhagen, Reggio Emilia, Potsdam, Oslo  & Athens.


• Authors who have presented a paper at a Philosophy of Computer Games conference are invited to submit an original, recently revised, version of their paper.

• Other interested authors are invited  to submit original papers of 3000-8000 words related to the topics mentioned below.

• All submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed according to usual standards.

• Papers submitted for this Call must not have been published previously in academic journals or article collections, including proceedings of the 2008 and 2009 Philosophy of Computer Games conferences online or in print with ISSN/ISBN codes. However, submissions may be new elaborations of ideas  previously developed in such publications, as long as they represent new, original papers.


TOPICS

Computer games and conceptions of  reality; ontological status of game objects and events; computer  game entities, metaphysical issues; epistemological  foundations of game studies; player  identity, perceptual experience; ethical and political issues in game design and consumption; experiential, interactional, cognitive dimensions of gameplay; ethical responsibilities of game-makers; ethical norms in gaming contexts; the “magic circle” of games and actions/interactions transcending it; fictionality  and interaction; defining computer games; player-avatar  identity; player identity and conceptions of self; identity and immersion; imagination and interpretation; world, space and experience; technology, process, experience; time experience in gameplay; embodiment, emotion and player experience; aesthetics, ethics and player experience, “gamification”.

TIMETABLE

September 15th 2012: Deadline papers submissions
December 15th  2012: Deadline reviews papers
February 15th 2013: Deadline revised papers
Summer 2013: Publication of the special issue  

SUBMISSION DETAILS
To submit a paper for this special  issue, authors should go to the journal’s Editorial Manager (EM) http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/

Authors must select article type: "SI on PCG” from the pull-down list during the submission process. 
This is necessary for assignment of submissions to Guest Editors.  
Submissions will be assessed according to the following procedure:  
New Submissions > Journal Editorial Office > Guest Editors > Reviewers > Reviewers’ recommendations > Guest Editors’ recommendations > Editor-in-Chief’s final decision > Author Notification of Decision

The process will be reiterated in case of requests for revisions.

For any further information please  contact:

Patrick Coppock patrick.coppock@unimore.it
Anita Leirfall anita.leirfall@umb.no