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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

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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.
Autorenporträt
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.