The Game Game

Philosophy 49 (189):231 - 253 (1974)
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Some time ago, an Innocent Bystander, after glancing through a copy of Mind , asked me, ‘Why do philosophers talk so much about Games? Do they play them a lot or something?’

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Mary Midgley
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Theories of Ethics.Philippa Foot - 1967 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 163:220-221.
Games and Family Resemblances.Anthony Manser - 1967 - Philosophy 42 (161):210 - 225.
Common names and "family resemblances".Haig Khatchadourian - 1957 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 18 (3):341-358.

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