KP200 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Game Players, Codependency, Target Games
5 Oct 2016
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Place in education (kids? adults?: kids: physical education class, recess, dpa, psychomotor/health implications, moral/social development . Status in political/sociopolitical significance (olympics: political investment o. Why relevant: games are mainly from north america and the uk. Static view (formalism): game ontology (essential/true features, rules crucial: games don"t exist without rules. Dynamic view (conventionalism): conventions, not rules, central to games, no truth to games. Hockey used to have a rule where you couldn"t pass it back, we would not. Mixed view (pragmatism): call this hockey still, but they would: game rules crucial" all rules open to change o. To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific states of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit use of more. Games have a truth (right/wrong way to play: this is lacrosse, it must be played this way, if not then it is not lacrosse anymore. 4 elements: prelusory goal (ultimate goal of game)
