Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual WorldsGaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions put forth by noted thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Zizek can help us explore and conceptualize recent developments in video games, game studies, and virtual worlds. Furthermore, Gunkel interprets computer games as doing philosophy, arguing