Jon Robson is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor of Aesthetics and the Sciences of the Mind and Co-author of A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time. He has contributed to the Routledge Companion to Comics.Grant Tavinor is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He is the author of The Art of Videogames and has contributed essays to The Routledge Companion to Games Studies and The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics.

"The editors deserve praise for bringing together a mix of junior and senior scholars, all of whom write with an accessibility and flair that make this book a pleasure to work through . . . For anyone interested in the philosophy of games in general or of videogames in particular, this volume is absolutely essential reading. It is also an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of game studies, as well as to aesthetics and the philosophy of art more generally." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Given the depth of discussion, the book is very accessible, generally describing and discussing the views of sources rather than assuming the reader is already familiar with them . . . Summing Up: Recommended." – CHOICE REVIEWS

• 1. Introduction Jon Robson and Grant Tavinor2. Ontology and Transmedial Games Christopher Bartel3. Videogames as Neither Video nor Games: A Negative Ontology Brock Rough4. Videogame Ontology, Constitutive Rules, and Algorithms Shelby Moser5. Appreciating Videogames Zach Jurgensen6. The Beautiful Gamer? On the Aesthetics of Videogame Performances Jon Robson7. Videogames and Creativity Aaron Meskin8. Interactivity, Fictionality, and Incompleteness Nathan Wildman and Richard Woodward9. Why Gamers Are Not Narrators Andrew Kania10. Videogames and Virtual Media Grant Tavinor11. Videogames and Gendered Invisibility Stephanie Patridge12. Games and the Moral Transformation of Violence C. Thi Nguyen13. Videogames and the "Theater of Love" Mark Silcox14. Pornographic Videogames: a Feminist Examination Mari Mikkola

Jon Robson is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor of Aesthetics and the Sciences of the Mind and Co-author of A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time. He has contributed to the Routledge Companion to Comics.Grant Tavinor is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He is the author of The Art of Videogames and has contributed essays to The Routledge Companion to Games Studies and The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics.

"The editors deserve praise for bringing together a mix of junior and senior scholars, all of whom write with an accessibility and flair that make this book a pleasure to work through . . . For anyone interested in the philosophy of games in general or of videogames in particular, this volume is absolutely essential reading. It is also an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of game studies, as well as to aesthetics and the philosophy of art more generally." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Given the depth of discussion, the book is very accessible, generally describing and discussing the views of sources rather than assuming the reader is already familiar with them . . . Summing Up: Recommended." – CHOICE REVIEWS

• 1. Introduction Jon Robson and Grant Tavinor2. Ontology and Transmedial Games Christopher Bartel3. Videogames as Neither Video nor Games: A Negative Ontology Brock Rough4. Videogame Ontology, Constitutive Rules, and Algorithms Shelby Moser5. Appreciating Videogames Zach Jurgensen6. The Beautiful Gamer? On the Aesthetics of Videogame Performances Jon Robson7. Videogames and Creativity Aaron Meskin8. Interactivity, Fictionality, and Incompleteness Nathan Wildman and Richard Woodward9. Why Gamers Are Not Narrators Andrew Kania10. Videogames and Virtual Media Grant Tavinor11. Videogames and Gendered Invisibility Stephanie Patridge12. Games and the Moral Transformation of Violence C. Thi Nguyen13. Videogames and the "Theater of Love" Mark Silcox14. Pornographic Videogames: a Feminist Examination Mari Mikkola

Jon Robson is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor of Aesthetics and the Sciences of the Mind and Co-author of A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time. He has contributed to the Routledge Companion to Comics.Grant Tavinor is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He is the author of The Art of Videogames and has contributed essays to The Routledge Companion to Games Studies and The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics.

"The editors deserve praise for bringing together a mix of junior and senior scholars, all of whom write with an accessibility and flair that make this book a pleasure to work through . . . For anyone interested in the philosophy of games in general or of videogames in particular, this volume is absolutely essential reading. It is also an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of game studies, as well as to aesthetics and the philosophy of art more generally." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Given the depth of discussion, the book is very accessible, generally describing and discussing the views of sources rather than assuming the reader is already familiar with them . . . Summing Up: Recommended." – CHOICE REVIEWS

• 1. Introduction Jon Robson and Grant Tavinor2. Ontology and Transmedial Games Christopher Bartel3. Videogames as Neither Video nor Games: A Negative Ontology Brock Rough4. Videogame Ontology, Constitutive Rules, and Algorithms Shelby Moser5. Appreciating Videogames Zach Jurgensen6. The Beautiful Gamer? On the Aesthetics of Videogame Performances Jon Robson7. Videogames and Creativity Aaron Meskin8. Interactivity, Fictionality, and Incompleteness Nathan Wildman and Richard Woodward9. Why Gamers Are Not Narrators Andrew Kania10. Videogames and Virtual Media Grant Tavinor11. Videogames and Gendered Invisibility Stephanie Patridge12. Games and the Moral Transformation of Violence C. Thi Nguyen13. Videogames and the "Theater of Love" Mark Silcox14. Pornographic Videogames: a Feminist Examination Mari Mikkola