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Title Climbing--philosophy for everyone : because it's there / edited by Stephen E. Schmid ; foreword by Hans Florine
Published Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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Description xii, 242 pages ; 23 cm
Series Philosophy for everyone
Philosophy for everyone.
Contents Philosophizing into the void : an introduction to Climbing, philosophy for everyone / Stephen E. Schmid -- Climbing and the stoic conception of freedom / Kevin Krein -- Risk and reward : is climbing worth it? / Paul Charlton -- Why climb? / Joe Fritschen -- Jokers on the mountain : in defense of gratuitous risk / Heidi Howkins Lockwood -- High aspirations : climbing and self-cultivation / Brian Treanor -- More than meets the "I" : values of dangerous sport / Pam R. Sailors -- Mountaineering and the value of self-sufficiency / Philip A. Ebert and Simon Robertson -- It ain't fast food : an authentic climbing experience / Ben Levey -- Zen and the art of climbing / Eric Swan -- Freedom and individualism on the rocks / Dane Scott -- Hold manufacturing : why you may be wrong about what's right / William Ramsey -- The ethics of free soloing / Marcus Agnafors -- Making mountains out of heaps : environmental protection one stone at a time / Dale Murray -- From route finding to redpointing : climbing culture as a gift economy / Debora Halbert -- Are you experienced? What you don't know about your climbing experience / Stephen M. Downes -- What is a climbing grade anyway? / Richard G. Graziano -- The beauty of a climb / Gunnar Karlsen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Free will and determinism.
Liberty.
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Mountaineering -- Miscellanea.
Author Schmid, Stephen E.
LC no. 2010006826
ISBN 9781444334869 paperback alkaline paper
1444334867 paperback alkaline paper