Petra Müller, Patrick Coppock, Michael Liebe, Dieter Mersch, Ian Bogost, Richard Bartle, Jesper Juul, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Kirsten Pohl, Niklas Schrape, Christian Hoffstadt, Michael Nagenborg, Bjarke Liboriussen, Betty Li Meldgaard, Stephan Günzel, Mattias Ljungström, Charlene Jennett, Anna L. Cox, Paul Cairns, Souvik Mukherjee, Dan Pinchbeck, Robert Glashüttner

• This first volume of the DIGAREC Series holds the proceedings of the conference “The Philosophy of Computer Games”, held at the University of Potsdam from May 8-10, 2008. The contributions of the conference address three fields of computer game research that are philosophically relevant and, likewise, to which philosophical reflection is crucial. These are: ethics and politics, the action-space of games, and the magic circle. All three topics are interlinked and constitute the paradigmatic object of computer games: Whereas the first describes computer games on the outside, looking at the cultural effects of games as well as on moral practices acted out with them, the second describes computer games on the inside, i.e. how they are constituted as a medium. The latter finally discusses the way in which a border between these two realms, games and non-games, persists or is already transgressed in respect to a general performativity.