Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Some find it dull; yet as philosopher and baseball fan Alva No¿rgues in this concise, entertaining book, nothing could be further from the truth, for baseball is the most philosophically profound of all sports. Here No¿eflects on and explores the many unexpected ways in which baseball is truly aphilosophical kind of game, in particular how it is
Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Some find it dull; yet as philosopher and baseball fan Alva No¿rgues in this concise, entertaining book, nothing could be further from the truth, for baseball is the most philosophically profound of all sports. Here No¿eflects on and explores the many unexpected ways in which baseball is truly aphilosophical kind of game, in particular how it is <"infinite>" in its reflection on itself.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alva Noë is a writer and philosopher living in Berkeley and New York. He works on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Out of Our Heads (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009) and Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015), among other books. He is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the 2018 recipient of the Judd/Hume Prize in Advanced Visual Studies. He was a weekly contributor to National Public Radio's science blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Introduction: The infinite game The Essays In Praise of Being Bored 1. Do we need to speed up baseball? 2. In praise of being bored 3. Three cheers for instant replay 4. The problem with baseball on TV 5. Joint attention Keeping Score 6. The forensic sport 7. No hitters, perfect games, and the meaning of life 8. Keeping score 9. The numbers game The Communication Game 10. Baseball and the nature of language 11. Linguistic universals 12. The communication game 13. A moment misunderstood 14. Nobody's perfect Making Peace with our Cyborg Nature 15. "The positive role of medicine in our game's growth" 16. Making peace with our cyborg nature 17. Plagiarized performance 18. What can a person do? 19. In defense of Barry Bonds 20. Legalize it! 21. How much baseball is too much? 22. The athlete and the gladiator Baseball Memories 23. Heartbreak and social media 24. The Matt Harvey affair 25. Explaining the magic of the ball park 26. For the love of the game: play ball! 27. How to be a fan 28. Mind over matter 29. The 'boys' of summer 30. Baseball's great equalizer 31. Beep baseball 32. Baseball memories Acknowledgements Bibliography
Preface Introduction: The infinite game The Essays In Praise of Being Bored 1. Do we need to speed up baseball? 2. In praise of being bored 3. Three cheers for instant replay 4. The problem with baseball on TV 5. Joint attention Keeping Score 6. The forensic sport 7. No hitters, perfect games, and the meaning of life 8. Keeping score 9. The numbers game The Communication Game 10. Baseball and the nature of language 11. Linguistic universals 12. The communication game 13. A moment misunderstood 14. Nobody's perfect Making Peace with our Cyborg Nature 15. "The positive role of medicine in our game's growth" 16. Making peace with our cyborg nature 17. Plagiarized performance 18. What can a person do? 19. In defense of Barry Bonds 20. Legalize it! 21. How much baseball is too much? 22. The athlete and the gladiator Baseball Memories 23. Heartbreak and social media 24. The Matt Harvey affair 25. Explaining the magic of the ball park 26. For the love of the game: play ball! 27. How to be a fan 28. Mind over matter 29. The 'boys' of summer 30. Baseball's great equalizer 31. Beep baseball 32. Baseball memories Acknowledgements Bibliography
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