You’re an ordinary student living a normal life, but then you come across the concepts of posthumanity and ancestor simulations in GET1029… and your life can never be the same again. This interactive text adventure game explores all the possibilities of Bostrom’s simulation argument. (Click on the graphic to play the game.)
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Our project illustrates a social media post with a short story encapsulating a similar concept as the drowning child argument, followed by comments which brings up philosophical objections. (Click on the graphic to see the whole story.)
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Drawing contrast between The Naive Theory and Strawson’s Basic Argument on moral responsibility, our team provides an alternative storyline to the hospital scene between Joker and Harvey Dent from The Dark Knight. (Click on the graphic to see the whole story.)
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Ever thought if you should be eating meat or not? This quiz was designed for the average meat eater who has not thought about the ethics of eating meat and is curious to see if their ethical leanings match their actions. (Click on the graphic to start the quiz.)
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Free Will! is a text-based choose-your-own-adventure game relating to the topic of free will. As a member of the jury, players will make decisions that correspond to different philosophies on free will, which influence the ending of the story. At the end of their playthrough, the philosophy that most closely fits their choices will be explained to them. Will you free Will?
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Through the interactive game on our website, we bring general players through an immersive scenario based on Norcross’s Puppy Argument as well as Lomasky’s replies to the argument. This leaves the players to think about their stance towards the consumption of factory farmed animal products in their daily lives. (Click on graphic to start.)
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We want to create a fun game in relation to Philosophy related to the principles of determinism. Our target audience is potential or current philosophy students.
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Our project features a cafe review on a dessert made using hormones obtained from torturing puppies. The comments section features ‘Lomasky’ and ‘Norcross’ arguing. We aim to illustrate and promote understanding of the arguments on ‘consumption of factory-farmed animals’ in a light-hearted manner. We will target netizens and Philosophy students.
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We have created a Haiku to explain Singer’s drowning child argument as well as the other perspectives of the issue (deontology and virtue ethics) in a concise manner. We hope that non-philosophy NUS students will understand the rationale for helping a starving child in a poor country through this poem.
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This interactive story aims to introduce the Lomansky, utilitarian argument against eating meat and rationality and ethics of care objection. Readers would be presented with an interactive scenario where humans are harvested by aliens for food similar to how humans are harvesting farmed animals for meat.
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A script set in a typical Hollywood survival movie scenario here some isolated individuals have run out of food and are forced into the age old dilemma of whether or not to kill and eat dying companions for their own survival.
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