Andrei A Buckareff is professor of philosophy and co-director of the cognitive science programme at Marist College in New York. His works include Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action (MIT Press, 2010), co-edited with Jesús Aguilar, and Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine (OUP Press, 2016), co-edited with Yujin Nagasawa.
Pleasures and pastimes
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The brewer, the yeast, and the boundaries of human agency
The brewer and the yeast: why brewing beer sheds light on the philosophical debate about the boundaries of human agency
by Andrei A Buckareff
Sports and games
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Sisyphus, skateboarders, and the value in endless failure
Skateboarders regularly fail at their chosen activity. But that doesn’t make it a meaningless task of Sisyphean proportions
by Andrei A Buckareff