Knowing the score : what sports can teach us about philosophy (and what philosophy can teach us about sports) /
"Beginning with various sporting questions and challenges, Papineau digs into modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. For instance, he discusses drafting techniques in cycling to shed new light on questions of altruism, and examines cricket family "dynasties" to help broad...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : Focus. Having your mind right
- In the blink of an eye
- Choking and the yips
- Part II : Rules. Professional fouls and political obligation
- Morality, convention, and soccer fakery
- Cads of the most unscrupulous kidney
- Part III : Teams. The logic of fandom
- Sporting teams, spacetime worms, and Israeli soccer
- Mutualism and the art of road cycle racing
- Game theory and team reasoning
- Part IV : Tribes. Civil society and sporting eligibility
- Sporting nations and political geography
- Race, ethnicity, and joining the club
- Nature, nurture,a nd sporting families
- Part V : Values. Amateur values and ulterior motives
- The Coase theorem and sporting capitalism
- History, tradition, and the meaning of football
- Shankly, Chomsky, and the nature of sport.