A game for suits is an activity directed at achieving a prelucery goal using only lucery means in accordance with constitutive rules. The grasshopper is something suits made up it's no reason to include the grasshopper in in like the introduction to the paper, he says. "I don't know that even he knows so are you" asks David Walliams of David Walliams' book A Game For Suits.
In this podcast we examine a recent argument for the view that chess is not, in fact, a game. We discuss the Grasshopper’s claim that all games must have a prelusory goal, as well as Skepticus’ objection to the giant Grasshopper concerning chess. We then turn to a broader analysis of the Suitsian account of games. Does the existence of illusory checkmates offer Grasshopper an avenue for replying to Skepticus? Should we bite the bullet and agree that chess is not a game? What is a lusory attitude? Is Tamler losing his mind? Why is David so giddy?
Plus – how should Arthur C. Clarke’s novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" affect our understanding of Kubrick’s movie? And a little more on Kanye.
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