Games, sports, and play philosophical essays
"This volume contains philosophical essays on the neglected topic, at least in most recent philosophy, of games, sports, and play. Some of the essays address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common that makes them such and that distinguishes them from other activities. H...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2019
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Engaging philosophy
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This volume contains philosophical essays on the neglected topic, at least in most recent philosophy, of games, sports, and play. Some of the essays address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common that makes them such and that distinguishes them from other activities. Here many take their start from Bernard Suits's celebrated analysis of game-playing in his book The Grasshopper, either to elaborate his analysis or to propose an alternative to it. Other essays address normative questions that can arise within these activities, for example about fairness in games and sports, as in the treatment of male and female athletes. And some address more general evaluative questions about the value of playing games and sports, which some see as enabling the development and display of distinctive excellences. Here one contribution is a posthumous essay by Suits defending his claim, in The Grasshopper, that life in utopia would consist primarily in playing games. The essays approach the topic of games, sports, and play from different angles, but all do so in the belief that there is rich terrain here for philosophical investigation and with the hope of stimulating more work on it"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | viii, 234 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780198798354 9780192519269 |