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Infinite Baseball: Notes From a Philosopher at the Ballpark

July 15, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR 97209 + Google Map

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. Its 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 Infinite Baseball (Oxford), philosopher and baseball fan Alva Noë explores the many unexpected ways in which baseball is truly a philosophical kind of game. Infinite Baseball ranges from the nature of umpiring and the role of instant replay, to the nature of the strike zone, from the rampant use of surgery to controversy surrounding performance-enhancing drugs.

Details

Date:
July 15, 2019
Time:
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Source:
http://www.powells.com/event

Venue

1005 W Burnside Street
Portland, OR 97209
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Phone
503-228-4651
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503-228-4651
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