[Popular Culture and Philosophy 06] • Baseball and Philosophy by Bronson, Eric -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Popular Culture and Philosophy Title Page Dedication Foreword Acknowledgments Pre-Game Warm-up : First Inning: - Hometown Heroes

1 - “There’s No Place Like Home!”

Bachelard’s Philosophy of Home ‘Canny’ Get a Hit at Last? A Little Elbow Room, or Making Yourself at Home with 30,000+ Pals Safe at Home Rounding Third and Heading Home

2 - Minnesota’s “Homer Hanky Jurisprudence” : Contraction, Ethics, and the Twins

Baseball’s Special Place in the Law Ethics and Law The Legal Obligation of the Twins Judge Crump’s Utilitarianism The Obligation to Play Baseball

Second Inning: - You Gotta Believe!

3 - Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about ...

What It’s Like to Be a Cubs Fan Why Do People Struggle with Faith? Commitment and the Cubs The Rationality of Religious Commitment The Nature of Commitment Choosing Faith? Baseball and Religious Commitment Who Should Be Committed?

4 - Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice

The Nature of Sacrifice The Ancient Virtue of Sacrifice The Vice of Involuntary Sacrifice The Spirit of Baseball: Hegel and the Reds Kierkegaard Lays It Down

Third Inning: - The Umpire’s New Clothes

5 - There Are No Ties at First Base

I. Thoughts on the Wonder of Rules II. There are No Ties at First Base The Shock of Contradiction Is the Umpire Blind? The Ambiguous Consolations of Philosophy

6 - Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls

Making the Calls Are Rules All an Umpire Has to Work With? Dworkin and the Pine Tar Controversy The Integrity of the Game

Fourth Inning: - Fair or Foul?

7 - Baseball, Cheating, and Tradition : Would Kant Cork His Bat?

The Meaning of Cheating An Interlude on Kant Cheating and Tradition Kant, Aristotle, and the Cheater

8 - There’s No Lying In Baseball (Wink, Wink)

Plays of Deception Is There an Ethicist in the House? Five Questions about Good Sportsmanship

Fifth Inning: - Baseball and America

9 - Democracy and Dissent: Why America Needs Reggie Jackson

Long Live Both King Georges A Philosophe in America The Bronx Zoo Our Big, Fat, Greek Democracy

10 - Baseball and the Search for an American Moral Identity

Don’t Show Me the Money! Baseball’s Got the Goods America’s Game

Sixth Inning: - Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?

11 - The Negro Leagues and the Contradictions of Social Darwinism

Sports and Race Social Darwinism Challenging Philosophies of Race On the Other Side of the Racial Divide Crossing the Color Line

12 - We’re American Too : The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance

The Birth of the Negro Leagues Resentment, Resistance, and the Blues Performance and the Bingo Long All-Stars The Gift of Baseball

Seventh Inning: - The Japanese National Pastime?

13 - The Zen of Hitting

Zen Basics Patience Relaxation Self-Knowledge Visualization Practice Kime (Tightening the Mind) Mushin (No Mind) Ballparks, Dojos, and Other Places of Enlightenment

14 - Japanese Baseball and Its Warrior Ways?

New Sport, Old Roots The Way of the Warrior Resolve and Training The Self as Relational Got Wa? Sadaharu Oh—Paragon of Bushido? Bushido Resolve? Who Needs Wa? What’s Wrong with Generalization?

Eighth Inning: - Behind in the Count

15 - The Numbers Game : What Fans Should Know about the Stats They Love

Playing the Numbers Game The Luck of the Average Great Teams or Just Plain Lucky? Numbers and Players Numbers as Players

16 - Women Playing Hardball

Softball Stereotypes Body Matters Throwing Like a Girl Throwing Like an Athlete The Courageous Ila Borders Softball: The Good Is the Enemy of the Best

Ninth Inning: - Under Pressure

17 - Walking Barry Bonds : The Ethics of the Intentional Walk

Booing the Walk Walking and Stalling The Nature of Games One Important Game Criterion Three Counter-Arguments to the Analogy The Moral and Aesthetic Superiority of Baseball

18 - Socrates at the Ballpark

The First Pitch: Uncertainty In the Batter’s Box: Facing up to Fallibility Swinging for the Fences: Engaging in Active Testing of Oneself A Call to the Bullpen: The Obligation to Challenge Others Last Pitch

Post-Game - Press Conference

19 - Baseball and Ethics

19a 19b

20 - Baseball and Political Philosophy

20a 20b

21 - Baseball and Metaphysics

21a 21b

22 - Baseball and Legal Philosophy

22a 22b

23 - Baseball and Aesthetics

23a 23b

24 - Baseball and Education

24a 24b

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