Virtual Reality as Metaphor

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Do we live in a virtual world? There are two ways of understanding the question. It may be read literally: is our everyday world computer-generated? But like the Enlightenment question of whether we live in a clockwork universe, it may also be read metaphorically: is reality like a computer-generated world, and if so, how? This workshop will explore the metaphorical reading.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

9.30 - 10.45: Grace Helton, TBD

11 - 12.15: Amy Kind, “Imagination at Work and at Play in VR”

2.15 - 3.30: Nathan Wildman, “Virtually New Art? AR, VR, and Novel Art Forms”

3.45 - 5: Eric Schwitzgebel, “God Sucks”

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15

10 - 11.15: Rami El Ali, “Why Perceptual Experiences in Virtual Reality are Nonveridical”

11.30 - 12.45: Martin Glazier, “Laws: Virtual and Physical”

2.45 - 4: Neil McDonnell, “Virtual Fictionalism and the Metaphor of Dead Metaphors”