Abstract

In this essay we argue that there is a contradiction lurking at the heart of Bernard Suits's seminal book on the philosophy of games, The Grasshopper, which has oddly gone unnoticed for 43 years. Suits argues that games need inefficiency and defines inefficiency such that it wouldn't exist in Utopia. This trivially entails that there could be no games in Utopia, yet the whole normative point of The Grasshopper is that games would be the only worthwhileactivity in Utopia. We then diagnose Suits's error and suggest some ways forward.

中文翻译：

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乌托邦真的有游戏吗？对 Suits 的 The Grasshopper 的重新诠释

摘要

在这篇文章中，我们认为 Bernard Suits 关于游戏哲学的开创性著作《蚱蜢》的核心潜藏着一个矛盾，奇怪的是 43 年来一直没有人注意到它。Suits 认为游戏需要低效率，并定义低效率以使其在乌托邦中不存在。这意味着乌托邦中不可能有游戏，但《蚱蜢》的整个规范点是游戏将是乌托邦中唯一有价值的活动。然后我们诊断 Suits 的错误并提出一些前进的方法。