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Review roundup: “Infinite Baseball”

June 18, 2019

As a pretentious faux-intellectual, I’m always interested in books that combine philosophy with the national pastime. How cool, then, to come across Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark, by Alva Noë, a professor at Berkeley. I’m switching between the print edition and audio book and quite enjoying it; look for a “Bookshelf […]

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* Baseball and philosophy and Baseball and Philosophy

April 22, 2008

From Alex Beam of the Boston Globe: the Boston Review has unearthed a 1981 letter from the late Harvard philosopher John Rawls, ruminating on baseball. Rawls, citing some insights that sprang from a conversation with University of Chicago legal scholar Harry Kalven, offers up six reasons why baseball “is the best of all games.” Which […]

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