Set Yourself Free

‘Free yourself!’ An inquiry into moral life in Second Life

The question to what extent computer-mediated virtuality affects our moral condition has preoccupied numerous philosophers (see e.g. Cavalier 2005; van den Hoven & Weckert 2008; Søraker 2011). “A rape in cyberspace” (Dibbell 1993) is a much-cited text on ‘virtual morality,’ as it was the first article that dealt with the repercussions of virtual harm. Throughout the article Dibbell reports on h...

Knowing Yourself

The paper discusses the concept of energy, its transformation, and transmission. Any physical object, event, word, sound, thought or even money is seen as a bundle of energy. This is a fictional story suggesting direction of technological/scientific development in the future.

Worlds and Propositions Set Free

The authors provide an object-theoretic analysis of two paradoxes in the theory of possible worlds and propositions stemming from Russell and Kaplan. After laying out the paradoxes, the authors provide a brief overview of object theory and point out how syntactic restrictions that prevent object-theoretic versions of the classical paradoxes are justified philosophically. The authors then trace ...

How to Avoid Yourself

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Abstract Yourself With Modules