Poker and Philosophy Pocket Rockets and Philosopher Kings

By Eric Bronson

Format:Softcover

Seven lessons in philosophy you already learned playing Texas hold'em / Michael Ventimiglia -- Karl Marx meets Texas dolly / Raymond Angelo Belliotti -- Knowing the unknowable: Aristotle, Sklansky, and the humility of wisdom / Willie Young -- Poker and the game of life / Steven M. Sanders -- The existential gambler: Dostoevsky and the gambler's high / Peter J. Vernezze -- Thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking (about poker) / Jonathan Ellis -- Don't play on tilt! Avoiding seven costly critical thinking errors in poker / Gregory Bassham and Marc C. Marchese -- Probability as a guide to poker / Don Fallis -- The irrational game: why there's no perfect system / Robert Northcott -- "I should have known it!": Gilbert Ryle and poker knowledge / Kenneth G. Lucey -- Bluffing, lying, and bullshitting / Brian Huss -- Poker lies: keep your friends close and your ethicists closer / Anne Barnhill and Susan Solomon -- Online poker: is it bluffing when no one sees you blink? / David R. Koepsell -- Power poker: Machiavelli and Brunson's super system / David Hahn -- Why my daughter plays poker (and how I learned to deal) / Mark J. Hamilton -- Jewish philosophy wins the pot: how Stu Ungar and Emmanuel Levinas coralled the Texans / Philip Lindholm -- Civilization amidst wilderness: Hobbes, poker, and classic westerns / Kevin L. Stoehr -- Annie Duke takes on Hollywood: girl power at the poker table / Rebecca Housel -- "The cheating game": poker's culture of violence / Wendy C. Hamblet.

Business, Economics & Careers
234 pagesSoftcover
First published 2006

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