Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 6, Band 6) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812695569 ISBN 13: 9780812695564

Verlag: Open Court, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this most American of games.
The contributors include many of the leading voices in the burgeoning new field of philosophy of sport, plus a few other talented philosophers with a personal interest in baseball. A few of the contributors are also drawn from academic areas outside philosophy: statistics, law, and history.
This volume gives the thoughtful baseball fan substancial material to think more deeply about. What moral issues are raised by the Intentional Walk? Do teams sometimes benefit from the self-interested behavior of their individual members? How can Zen be applied to hitting? Is it ethical to employ deception in sports? Can a game be defined by its written rules or are there also other constraints? What can the U.S. Supreme Court learn from umpiring? Why should baseball be the only industry exempt from antitrust laws? What part does luck play in any game of skill?

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Open Court
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0812695569
• ISBN 13: 9780812695564
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Herausgeber: Bronson Eric, Irwin William
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