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Luke Cuddy

Hi and thank you for navigating to my site (hopefully it wasn't an accident!). I teach online and on-the-ground philosophy courses at Southwestern College near my current home in Southern California. I love philosophy and, consequently, try to push it on anyone who will listen, including my students. Of course, this "pushing" is a complex process. I generally subscribe to the notion that there are multiple intelligences, hence I vary my teaching methods as much as I can to reach as many students as I can.

Like many, my research interests change depending on what day of the week you ask me. But there are a few topics that continue to spark my interest: philosophy of art, eastern thought, pop-culture and philosophy, games and philosophy. I am especially interested in this last topic since games are sometimes thought to be frivolous activities unworthy of philosophical attention. But games of all kinds—from board to video—embody rich areas of human innovation, to say the least. Turning a philosophical eye to games has the potential to uncover more interesting aspects of human nature than one might first imagine.

For proof of these last claims, check out my book this coming November (2008) from Open Court Publishing. It is an edited collection of essays on the prolific Legend of Zelda video game franchise.

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The wise man can envision an entire universe in a single grain of sand. But the stupid man will just lay down in some seaweed, then roll around until he's completely draped in it, then stand up and say, "Hey I'm vine man."
Jack Handey