
Behavior
Why Americans Love Baseball and Brits Love Soccer...er... Football
It's tradition, which is why imported or newly invented sports rarely find a foothold
David Papineau is a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and at King's College London. His previous books include Introducing Consciousness 2001 and Philosophical Devices 2012, and next month he will publish Knowing the Score, which takes a philosophical perspective on sporting issues.
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