Ian Schnee

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Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy

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Teaching Professor Ian Schnee, of the Department of Philosophy

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he/him/his

I have always enjoyed talking about movies and video games. When I discovered philosophy, I realized that all along I had been practicing with my friends core humanistic skills: interpretating narratives; using evidence to argue for ambiguous character arcs; evaluating works according to norms of aesthetics, genre, morality, or game play. Philosophy concerns fundamental questions of what it means to be a person: how should we live; what gives our lives meaning; what (if anything) separates human intelligence from artificial intelligence? My work takes films and video games to be philosophical works that insightfully investigate these questions just as much as traditional books and journal articles.