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Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

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 ...