I Play, Therefore I Am: Video Games & Philosophy with Ian Schnee

Name: I Play, Therefore I Am: Video Games & Philosophy with Ian Schnee
Start: 2026-03-13T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-13T17:30:00-07:00
Location: 500 College St SE, Lacey, WA, United States, Washington 98503

Schedule

Fri Mar 13 2026 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

500 College St SE, Lacey, WA, United States, Washington 98503 | Lacey, WA

The global video game industry is larger than the TV, movie, streaming, and music industries combined. Yet despite their wild popularity, video games are rarely taken seriously as an art form or object of deep reflection.
Join us for a journey through the morality, meaning, and art of video games. What can video games tell us about the human experience? Do video games ruin our minds, or make us smarter? How can we interact with them as art? In a time when technology is rapidly transforming politics, society, and education, get a new perspective on how the largest entertainment medium can change—and even improve—our lives.
Speaker Bio:
Ian Schnee is a teaching professor and director of Undergraduate Studies in the philosophy department at the University of Washington. His interests include logic, the philosophy of film and video games, and pedagogy. He’s a member of the Dean’s Academy Futurists and the research cluster for writing pedagogy with AI. For two years he co-led the Evidence-Based Teaching Program at UW’s Center for Teaching and Learning, and in 2020 won the UW Distinguished Teaching Award.