Ernst Mach Workshop /10./. David Chalmers on Virtual Reality

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Hvorecký, Juraj - Hříbek, Tomáš
Ernst Mach Workshop /10./. David Chalmers on Virtual Reality.
[Prague, 07.07.2022-08.07.2022, (W-WRD 12/10)]
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/26
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : virtual reality * simulation * immersion * realism
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
https://emw.flu.cas.cz/workshops/ernst-mach-workshop-x-2022-david-chalmers-on-virtual-reality/

Originally a province of science fiction, virtual reality has recently become a technological possibility and increasingly a topic for philosophical reflection. While Bostrom (2003) and Chalmers himself (2003) initially focused the epistemological issues about virtual reality, Chalmers now offers a truly complete philosophy of virtual reality, i.e., of an immersive and interactive reality simulated on a computer. Every branch of philosophy as traditionally conceived must be applicable to virtual reality: epistemology, metaphysics and value theory. Although the book can thus easily serve as an innovative introduction to philosophy, Chalmers also manages to convey to the general reader a number of controversial philosophical theses that he previously defended in his more technical publications: on the irreducible nature of consciousness, on the extended mind, on structural realism, on a structuralist response to Cartesian skepticism, on the nature of computation, on the digital metaphysics of virtual reality and on the character of the manifest image.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0336793