Fun and (striving) games: playfulness and agential fluidity

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 48 (3):403-413 (2021)
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Games: Agency as Art is wonderful, and in my opinion the most important book in the philosophy of games since Bernard Suits’ The Grasshopper. In effect, Nguyen takes Suits’ idea of ‘reverse English...

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Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception.Bence Nanay - 2016 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press UK.
Illusory attitudes and the playful stoic.Michael Ridge - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 178 (9):2965-2990.

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