The gamer’s dilemma: an expressivist response

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Abstract

In this paper, I support a hybrid form of expressivism called constructive ecumenical expressivism (CEE) which I have previously used (to attempt) to resolve the gamer’s dilemma. (Young, 2016. Resolving the gamer’s dilemma. London: Palgrave Macmillan.) In support of CEE, I argue that the various other attempts at either resolving, dissolving or resisting the dilemma are consistent with CEE’s moral framework. That is, with its way of explaining what a claim to morality is, with how moral norms are established, with the role intuition is able to play in establishing these norms, and therefore with how the gamer’s dilemma can be resolved. I also demonstrate, more broadly, how CEE advocates robust relativism as a means of justifying the constructed moral norm’s normative credentials, and therefore how one society’s norm can be judged morally superior to another’s.

Original languageEnglish
Article number25
Number of pages12
JournalEthics and Information Technology
Volume26
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Apr 2024

Keywords

  • Constructive ecumenical expressivism
  • De re and de dicto attitudes
  • Local and global normativity
  • Robust relativism
  • Virtual murder
  • Virtual paedophilia

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