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Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark

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Baseball as a practice in thinking

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Baseball as a practice in thinking

Alva Noë brings philosophical inquiry to the ballpark, using baseball’s pauses and bursts of action as a way to consider how spectators make sense of the game. The description connects this distinctive rhythm to broader questions of attention and interpretation, while placing the discussion against efforts to shorten Major League Baseball games. The book is presented as an exploration of baseball not only as competition, but as an intellectually rich activity whose meaning unfolds through watching and thinking.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Baseball fans interested in reflective writing about the game
  • Readers curious about connections between philosophy, attention, and sport

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Baseball and philosophyAttention and interpretationThe experience of watching sport

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Book overview

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. Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to shorten games, and to tailor baseball to today's shorter attention spans. But for the true fan, baseball is always compelling to watch -and intellectually fascinating. It's superficially slow-pace is an opportunity to participate in the distinctive thinking practice that defines the game. If baseball is boring, it's boring the way philosophy is boring: not because there isn't a lot going on, but because the challenge baseball poses is making sense of it all.

In this deeply entertaining book, philosopher and baseball fan Alva No
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