Philosophy
It's opening day for the Gettysburg College intramural softball league and I'm playing right field for the faculty team which has the throwback name of "The Faculty 9." Dave, our skipper, had intended to call us "The Fighting Schmuckers" after college founder Samuel Schmucker, but changed his mind. Frankly, I'm glad because it eases some of the pressure on us. With a name like The Fighting Schmuckers, we'd have to be good.
But, then, I thought that surely there's something better than the Faculty 9. I mean, we could pull a page from soccer team names and become Faculty United with team jerseys emblazoned with our F.U. logo. Or we could lift from football and become the Oakland Graders. The Toledo Redpens? In grad school the team was, of course, the Home Platonists.
So, what would be a good name for us or, alternatively, what was the best team name you ever had?
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Philosophy
Opening Day
It's opening day for the Gettysburg College intramural softball league and I'm playing right field for the faculty team which has the throwback name of "The Faculty 9." Dave, our skipper, had intended to call us "The Fighting Schmuckers" after college founder Samuel Schmucker, but changed his mind. Frankly, I'm glad because it eases some of the pressure on us. With a name like The Fighting Schmuckers, we'd have to be good.
But, then, I thought that surely there's something better than the Faculty 9. I mean, we could pull a page from soccer team names and become Faculty United with team jerseys emblazoned with our F.U. logo. Or we could lift from football and become the Oakland Graders. The Toledo Redpens? In grad school the team was, of course, the Home Platonists.
So, what would be a good name for us or, alternatively, what was the best team name you ever had?
- All-star Teams And The Fallacy Of Composition
After the baseball all-star game, I started thinking about critical thinking. I use all-star teams as an example of the fallacy of composition which is the flawed argument that what is true of the parts must also be true of the whole. It is true that...
- Sisyphusian Moments
Albert Camus points to the myth of Sisyphus as a metaphor for the human condition. For angering the gods, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a massive boulder up a mountain for all of eternity. What makes this tragic, Camus points out, is not not the continuous...
- What Is Coaching?
The Baltimore Orioles' manager Dave Trembley is serving a two-game suspension and paying a fine for coaching after being ejected from a game. In a game against the Seattle Mariners, the umps blew a call and the usually mild-manner skipper was thrown...
- Pros And Cons Of Organized Youth Sports
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