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?
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