Knowing the Score by David Papineau

Knowing the Score by David Papineau

In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting family dynasties reorient the nature v. nurture debate. Why do sports competitors choke? Why do fans think God will favor their team over their rivals? How can it be moral to deceive the umpire by framing a pitch? From all of these questions, and many more, philosophy has a great deal to learn.

An entertaining and erudite book that ranges far and wide through the sporting world, Knowing the Score is perfect reading for armchair philosophers and Monday morning quarterbacks alike.

Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, David Papineau Theory and Meaning (Clarendon 1979), Reality and Representation (Blackwell 1987), Philosophical Naturalism (Blackwell 1993), The Philosophy of Science (Oxford Readings in Philosophy 1996), and The Origins of Reason (Clarendon 2003) are only a few of his works.

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ISBN 13	9780465049684
ISBN 10	0465049680
Title	Knowing the Score
Author	David Papineau
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Basic Books
Year published	2017-05-02
Number of pages	304
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