{"id":789,"date":"2008-02-19T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2008\/02\/19\/second-life-and-philosophy"},"modified":"2008-02-19T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:32:00","slug":"second-life-and-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2008\/02\/19\/second-life-and-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life and Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happypenguin.org\/images\/secondlife.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happypenguin.org\/images\/secondlife.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In recent discussions with some Philosophy and other university teachers &#8211; someone mentioned the use of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.secondlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Second Life<\/a> &#8211; the virtual world &#8211; as a possible teaching tool \/ environment. I know some Universities use Second Life to hold tutorials &#8211; and have virtual campuses there.<\/p>\n<p>I was not convinced that these meetings had many advantages over more spartan on-line discussion forums &#8211; and worried students (and staff) might get distracted by working so hard on their Avatars that they forgot why they were there..  But, as often, maybe I am wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I did find a blog about Philosophy in Second Life at <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlifephilosophy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/secondlifephilosophy.com\/<\/a> and this links to a philosophy meeting place, and other resources.<\/p>\n<p>I also began to ponder whether we could use Second Life for modelling and playing out ethical scenarios&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in the debate at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlifeherald.com\/slh\/2007\/07\/philosophy-of-s.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.secondlifeherald.com\/slh\/2007\/07\/philosophy-of-s.html <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this a wise idea to move in- or a dubious and time-consuming distraction?<br \/>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent discussions with some Philosophy and other university teachers &#8211; someone mentioned the use of the Second Life &#8211; the virtual world &#8211; as a possible teaching tool \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,43,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-philosophy","category-second-life"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}