Legitimizing videogames as art: John Dewey's philosophy of art and the nature of videogames

• Main Author: Esteban, Aaron Micah A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Video games; Art > Philosophy; Dewey, John; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdd_philo/10; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdd_philo/article/1009/viewcontent/2023_Aaron_Micah_Esteban_Dissertation_Full_Copy_with_Animo_Repository_Revised_Submission_Consent_Form.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Roger Ebert (2010), a distinguished film critic, maintains that videogames are by nature “the opposite of the strategy of serious film and literature, which requires authorial control.” Ebert’s claim that videogames cannot be art stimulated serious philosophical discussions on the aesthetics of vide...