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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 September 2019
- ISBN 9780198798354
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 239x160x20 mm
- Weight 524 g
- Language English 60
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Short description:
A distinguished group of philosophers discuss a wide range of issues about games, sport, and play - a topic largely neglected in recent philosophical literature. They ask consider what games and sports have in common, pose questions about their value, and add philosophical voices to the on-going debates in game studies.
MoreLong description:
This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that's been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play. Some contributions address conceptual questions about what games and sports have in common 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 and either elaborate it or propose an alternative to it. Other essays discuss normative issues that arise within games and sports, such as about fairness, for example in the treatment of male and female athletes. Yet others consider broader evaluative questions about the value of games and sports, which some see as enabling the display of distinctive excellences. Games, Sports, and Play includes a posthumous essay by Suits defending his claim, in The Grasshopper, that life in utopia would consist primarily in playing games. The volume's chapters approach the topic of games, sports, and play from different angles but always in the belief that there is rich terrain here for philosophical investigation.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: The Concept 'Game'
Suits on Games: Slightly Revised, Slightly Restricted
Winning, Losing, and Playing the Game
The Forms and Fluidity of Game Play
How to Play Well With Others
Part II: The Concept 'Sport'
Sport as a Thick Cluster Concept
The Nature and Value of Sport
Part III: Fairness in Sports and Games
The Metaphor of a 'Level Playing Field' in Games and Sports
The Fragility of Fairness: Rethinking the Ethics of the Women's Category in Sports
Part IV: The Value of Games and Sports
Grasshopper, Aristotle, Bob Adams, and Me
Return of the Grasshopper: Games and the End of the Future
