How to Play Philosophy

How to Play Philosophy is a series of lyrical, creative essays that explore timeless and timely ideas about who we are and how we live. MIT-trained philosopher Michael Picard shares ideas of numerous philosophers from conflicting traditions and builds an intellectual background to enable readers to draw their own conclusions.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Playtime
Chapter 2:Playing Me
Chapter 3: Play It With Feeling
Chapter 4: Games We Play
Chapter 5: Playing Fair
Chapter 6: Truth Sports
Chapter 7: Playing for Keeps
Chapter 8: Playing (With) God
Bibliography
Discography
About the Author
Index

About the author

Michael Picard teaches philosophy at Douglas College in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He founded and facilitated Café Philosophy in Victoria, BC, Canada, a series of public participatory philosophy events that ran weekly for over twelve years, later creating Philosophy Sports to improve the depth and dynamics of participatory philosophy

Product details

• Authors: Michael Picard, Picard Michael
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780761873068
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7306-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary essays, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc