Plumbing Game Studies

By Graham Culbertson

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Philosophy is like plumbing for ideas - it makes connections and keeps everything flowing. In this podcast, Graham and his guests are doing some philosophical plumbing for game studies. We'll be asking questions like: Why are philosophers always talking about games? Is philosophy itself a game? How can we use games to understand philosophy - and how can we use philosophy to understand games? This podcast will use philosophy to study games and games to study philosophy. Anyone interested in philosophy, games, and how they interact should enjoy it! Remember: the unexamined game is not worth playing

Episode Date
Learning Against Gamification -- Molly Worthen
May 14, 2026
The Creative Challenge of Cozy Games -- Lex Play
Apr 13, 2026
Playing the Part in Japanese Video Games -- Rachael Hutchinson
Nov 13, 2025
The Meta of Free to Play Games -- Donald MacKenzie
Mar 13, 2025
Adapting The Lord of the Rings as Trick-Taking -- Bryan Bornmueller
Feb 27, 2025
The Malaise of Modern Video Games -- Simon Parkin
Jan 23, 2025
A Board Game Whose Rules Will Never be Known -- Amabel Holland
Nov 19, 2024
The Emulation Game of Japanese Culture -- Morgan Pitelka
Nov 06, 2024
1.7 Graeber's Fun -- Aris Politopoulos
Aug 08, 2024
1.6 Huizinga's Homo Ludens -- Martin Roth
Jul 22, 2024
1.5 Agon and Ancient Greek Society -- David Potter
Jul 11, 2024
1.4 Maria Lugones (and David Graeber) -- Miguel Sicart
Jun 27, 2024
1.3 Bernard Suits' The Grasshopper - C. Thi Nguyen
May 09, 2024
Schopenhauer on Using Games Against Anxiety (Minigame 2)
Apr 23, 2024
Seeing Like a Game -- C. Thi Nguyen
Apr 03, 2024
1.2: Wittgenstein and Game Definitions --Jonne Arjoranta
Mar 28, 2024
Mario, Roguelites, and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence (Minigame 1)
Mar 22, 2024
1.1: Philosophical Plumbing and Games of Truth
Mar 07, 2024