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A Defense of Simulated Experience - New Noble Lies (Paperback)
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A Defense of Simulated Experience - New Noble Lies (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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This book defends an account of the positive psychological,
ethical, and political value of simulated human experience.
Philosophers from Plato and Augustine to Heidegger, Nozick, and
Baudrillard have warned us of the dangers of living on too heavy a
diet of illusion and make-believe. But contemporary cultural life
provides broader, more attractive opportunities to do so than have
existed at any other point in history. The gentle forms of
self-deceit that such experiences require of us, and that so many
have regarded as ethically unwholesome or psychologically
self-destructive, can in fact serve as vital means to political
reconciliation, cultural enrichment, and even (a kind of) utopia.
The first half of the book provides a highly schematic definition
of simulated experience and compares it with some claims about the
nature of simulation made by other philosophers about what it is
for one thing to be a simulation of another. The author then
provides a critical survey of the views of some major authors about
the value of certain specific types of simulated experience, mainly
in order to point out the many puzzling inconsistencies and
ambiguities that their thoughts upon the topic often exhibit. In
the second half of the book, the author defends an account of the
positive social value of simulated experience and compares his own
position to the ideas of a number of utopian political thinkers, as
well as to Plato's famous doctrine of the "noble lie." He then
makes some tentative practical suggestions about how a proper
appreciation of the value of simulated experience might influence
public policy decisions about such matters as the justification of
taxation, paternalistic "choice management," and governmental
transparency. A Defense of Simulated Experience will appeal to a
broad range of philosophers working in normative ethics,
aesthetics, the philosophy of technology, political philosophy, and
the philosophy of culture who are interested in questions about
simulated experience. The book also makes a contribution to the
emerging field of Game Studies.
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