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Suits not of cards, but of chess
10/08/30
Here is more about Bernard Suits' Grasshopper. It picks up where the post on RPGs and the post on Suit's definition of 'game' left off.
Recall that Suits defines a game as "the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." As such, playing a game invo -
Duck and drake clusters
10/08/27
The following post about homeostatic property clusters (HPCs) is pretty long, so I've split it into several sections. Here's the very short version: Ereshefsky and Matthen argue that the HPC approach to natural kinds fetishizes similarity and is undone by polymorphism. I argue that it' -
Following Suits
10/08/26
I had meant to quickly write a follow up to my previous post on Bernard Suits' The Grasshopper, but my the ideas proved to be more tangled in the writing than they were in the thinking. Matt has pressed for the actual definition, so I should actually get to it even if I don't have anything -
Trying on old Suits
10/08/22
Late in the last century, on Ryan Hickerson's recommendation, I read Bernard Suit's The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia. The core of the book is Suit's definition of 'game.' Although the definition was originally laid out in a 1967 article in the journal Philosophy of Sc -
The brew at Tazza D'oro
10/08/22
I am on sabbatical for the Fall and a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science. This is my first full day in Pittsburgh, and I'm writing this from a coffeehouse in Highland Park. Whether sabbatical will mean more blogging or less will have to be seen. -
A specimen of 'performance' talk
10/08/17
I have argued in print that both the dated event of employing musical instruments (which is unrepeatable) and the sound structure (which can be recorded and reproduced) can reasonably be thought of as the performance, depending on context and purpose. The former sense is obvious, and the latter come -
Slice of life, slightly stale
10/08/10
I only get so many opportunities for slice-of-life blogging, since I have neither cats nor kids. I wrote the following last month, but for some reason didn't post it.
As a graduate student, I developed the habit of doing my academic writing in coffee houses. I went to the office if I -
Further adventures
10/08/04
Janet's blog Adventures in Ethics and Science has moved away from the professional blog collective Scienceblogs to the amateur collective Scientopia. Some links:
Her blog's new location
My comparison of her old and new banners, a discussion which I decided belonged ov
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