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Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this most American of games.The contributors include many of the leading voices in the burgeoning new field of philosophy of sport, plus a few other talented philosophers with a personal interest in baseball. A few of the contributors are also drawn from academic areas outside philosophy: statistics, law, and history.This volume gives the thoughtful baseball fan substancial material to think more deeply about. What moral issues are raised by the Intentional Walk? Do teams sometimes benefit from the self-interested behavior of their individual members? How can Zen be applied to hitting? Is it ethical to employ deception in sports? Can a game be defined by its written rules or are there also other constraints? What can the U.S. Supreme Court learn from umpiring? Why should baseball be the only industry exempt from antitrust laws? What part does luck play in any game of skill?

Первый выпуск ежегодника исламской философии «Ишрак» («Озарение») содержит более тридцати статей на русском и английском языках, посвященных широкому спектру актуальных проблем исламской философской мысли и принадлежащих перу ведущих отечественных и зарубежных специалистов. Это – первое периодическое издание подобного рода в России. Для философов, исламоведов и всех, кто интересуется философией и мусульманской интеллектуальной традицией.

Второй выпуск ежегодника исламской философии «Ишрак» («Озарение») содержит более 30 статей на русском, английском и французском языках, посвященных широкому спектру актуальных проблем исламской философской мысли и принадлежащих перу ведущих отечественных и зарубежных специалистов. The second issue of the yearbook of Islamic philosophy «Ishraq» («Illumination») contains more than thirty articles in Russian, English and French, devoted to a wide range of issues, current in Islamic philosophical thought, written by the leading Russian and foreign experts in the field.

Третий выпуск ежегодника исламской философии «Ишрак» («Озарение») содержит около 40 статей на русском, английском и французском языках, посвященных широкому спектру актуальных проблем исламской философской мысли и принадлежащих перу ведущих отечественных и зарубежных специалистов. The third issue of the yearbook of Islamic philosophy «Ishraq» («Illumination») contains some forty articles in Russian, English and French, devoted to a wide range of issues, current in Islamic philosophical thought, written by the leading Russian and foreign experts in the field.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Outlines of natural philosophy : Vol. 1 : being heads of lectures delivered in the university of Edinburgh / by John Playfair».