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Author : Dominic McIver Lopes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191006715

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Beyond Art by Dominic McIver Lopes Pdf

Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories have reached a dialectical impasse wherein they reiterate, and cannot resolve, disagreement over the puzzle cases, the buck passing theory illuminates the radical provocations of avant-garde art. In addition, when supplemented by a systematic framework for crafting theories of the individual arts, the buck passing theory grounds our empirical inquiries into the arts as well as our practices of appreciation and art criticism. Lopes seeks to model the diverse strategies employed by humanists and social and behavioural scientists who study the different arts. He gives the specificity of each art form a central role in our appreciative endeavours, and yet he stresses the continuity of the arts with similar, non-art activities such as fashion design, sports and games, cuisine, nature appreciation, and non-literary writing.

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501717857

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Playing for Dollars by Paul D. Staudohar Pdf

Fans of professional sports have been forced to pay attention to labor relations in the last five years. The 1994—1995 season reminded baseball enthusiasts that a player's strike can mean something more than a swing and a miss, and the fans of other sports have experienced similar frustrations. In Playing for Dollars, Paul D. Staudohar analyzes the business dimension of sports with a timely assessment of the interactions among labor, management, and government in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Author of The Sports Industry and Collective Bargaining, an earlier version of the current volume, Staudohar describes the mechanics of contract and salary negotiations, including the pivotal issue of free agency. He explains how unions became established in sports, how the balance of power shifted between owners and players, and how the salaries of stars escalated. He investigates the gambling controversies and changing drug policies that have sometimes alienated fans and comments, as well, on the impact AIDS has had on professional sports. Sports events are media events and Staudohar takes a look at the effects of television contracts and international expansion. He also considers the future of team sports, discussing league expansion, prospects for growth, and the issue of franchise relocation.

Author : Erica Benner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400831845

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Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner Pdf

Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the "Machiavellian" maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory, Erica Benner gives the most complete account yet of Machiavelli's thought. She argues that his difficult and puzzling style of writing owes far more to ancient Greek sources than is usually recognized, as does his chief aim: to teach readers not how to produce deceptive political appearances and rhetoric, but how to see through them. Drawing on a close reading of Greek authors--including Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch--Benner identifies a powerful and neglected key to understanding Machiavelli. This important new interpretation is based on the most comprehensive study of Machiavelli's writings to date, including a detailed examination of all of his major works: The Prince, The Discourses, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories. It helps explain why readers such as Bacon and Rousseau could see Machiavelli as a fellow moral philosopher, and how they could view The Prince as an ethical and republican text. By identifying a rigorous structure of principles behind Machiavelli's historical examples, the book should also open up fresh debates about his relationship to later philosophers, including Rousseau, Hobbes, and Kant.

Author : James E. Block
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0674008839

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A Nation of Agents by James E. Block Pdf

Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and society. He roots self and society in the concept of agency, rather than liberty, and dispenses with the national myth of the “sacred cause of liberty”—with the Declaration of Independence as its “American scripture.”

Author : Whitman Richards
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262527781

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Anigrafs by Whitman Richards Pdf

An innovative proposal for understanding how mental organisms make decisions and control behavior.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476617442

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The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. by Jonathan Fraser Light Pdf

More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

Author : Charles E. Quirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000525472

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Sports and the Law by Charles E. Quirk Pdf

First Published in 1999. This is a collection of essays looking at the continuing growth and significance of Sports Law. Among the tokens of the flourishing of sports law during the past two decades are the publication of specialized treatises, articles on facets of sports law in traditional law reviews, appearance of legal journals or reviews devoted solely to sports law, and courses on the subject in law schools. Sports and the Law: Major Legal Cases should attract the interest of a variety of audiences. Authorities in the field of sports law will want to examine how their colleagues as well as non- specialists treat specific cases and broader issues. Also, lawyers who lack familiarity with sports law may desire an introductory exposure to the rapidly expanding field. Each essay ends with a selected bibliography.

Author : Scott Rosner,Kenneth L. Shropshire
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0763726214

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The Business of Sports by Scott Rosner,Kenneth L. Shropshire Pdf

The book covers professional, Olympic and collegiate sports and each chapter has a fully developed introduction to explaine the relevance of the articles to be presented.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Employee fringe benefits
ISBN : UCSC:32106016647510

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Compensation and Working Conditions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Luther Lee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382313418

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Elements of Theology by Luther Lee Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : NYPL:33433068255169

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The Hopkinsian Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Downward,Alistair Dawson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0415208734

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The Economics of Professional Team Sports by Paul Downward,Alistair Dawson Pdf

This book is unique in offering the first truly rigorous application of economic principles to the subject of professional team sports.

Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191062292

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Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility by David Shoemaker Pdf

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: · What does it mean to be an agent? · What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)? · What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will? · What do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility? · How do moral agents develop? How does this developmental story bear on questions about the nature of moral judgment and responsibility? · What do the results from neuroscience imply (if anything) for our questions about agency and responsibility? OSAR thus straddles the areas of moral philosophy and philosophy of action, but also draws from a diverse range of cross-disciplinary sources, including moral psychology, psychology proper (including experimental and developmental), philosophy of psychology, philosophy of law, legal theory, metaphysics, neuroscience, neuroethics, political philosophy, and more. It is unified by its focus on who we are as deliberators and (inter)actors, embodied practical agents negotiating (sometimes unsuccessfully) a world of moral and legal norms.

Author : Mark Timmons,Robert Neal Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199699575

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Reason, Value, and Respect by Mark Timmons,Robert Neal Johnson Pdf

In 13 specially written essays, leading philosophers explore Kantian themes in moral and political philosophy that are prominent in the work of Thomas E. Hill, Jr., such as respect and self-respect, practical reason, conscience, and duty. In conclusion Hill offers an overview of his work and responses to the preceding essays.

Author : Andy Clark,Julian Kiverstein,Tillmann Vierkant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199876877

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Decomposing the Will by Andy Clark,Julian Kiverstein,Tillmann Vierkant Pdf

There is growing evidence from the science of human behavior that our everyday, folk understanding of ourselves as conscious, rational, responsible agents may be radically mistaken. The science, some argue, recommends a view of conscious agency as merely epiphenomenal: an impotent accompaniment to the whirring unconscious machinery (the inner zombie) that prepares, decides and causes our behavior. The new essays in this volume display and explore this radical claim, revisiting the folk concept of the responsible agent after abandoning the image of a central executive, and "decomposing" the notion of the conscious will into multiple interlocking aspects and functions. Part 1 of this volume provides an overview of the scientific research that has been taken to support "the zombie challenge." In part 2, contributors explore the phenomenology of agency and what it is like to be the author of one's own actions. Part 3 then explores different strategies for using the science and phenomenology of human agency to respond to the zombie challenge. Questions explored include: what distinguishes automatic behavior and voluntary action? What, if anything, does consciousness contribute to the voluntary control of behavior? What does the science of human behavior really tell us about the nature of self-control?