“Charles C Thomas Publisher” evidently still exists. (Finding information about Suits online is extremely difficult.) The Present PDFs It’s the earliest appearance of the Grasshopper that I have found, but I also haven’t looked very hard. The essay, “The Grasshopper,” continues work Suits began in “Is Life a Game We Are Playing?” ( Ethics 77, no. (Evidently, Suits had moved to Waterloo back in 1966.) viii) says Suits was already “Chairman and Professor of Philosophy” at University of Waterloo (also in Ontario) at the time. However, it may be that he first encountered Suits at a similar conference at the University of Windsor in Ontario in may of 1972, since the book’s contributor’s list (p. xi), so perhaps this is where he met Suits for the first time. Osterhoudt reports that he was on the organizing committee for a similar conference at Brockport in February of the same year (p. However, it is interesting to note that a typo in the table of contents lists the article as being about “the Moral Idea of Man.”) (Indeed, all those marked “d” in the table of contents were. Osterhoudt says that “The Grasshopper: A Thesis Concerning the Moral Ideal of Man” was first presented at a “Symposium on Sport and Ethics” at “State University College at Brockport, New York, October 26-28, 1972” (p. However, that text would seem to be out of print. Meier, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1988,” and evidently it was still contained in the 1995 edition. 9) that the article was later “reprinted in Philosophic Inquiry in Sport, Edited by William J. Suits himself reports (“Tricky Triad: Games, Play, and Sport,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 15 : 1-9 see p. x), Osterhoudt reports that “The Elements of Sport” was one of the essays that were invited for the volume (all of the ones marked “a” in the table of contents are). (“What Is a Game” contained an a slightly different definition, but all the basic ideas were there.) 2 (1967): 148–56) but contains the finalized version of his definition of game playing.

“The Elements of Sport” is a continuation of the work Suits began in “What Is a Game” ( Philosophy of Science 34, no.

Those two articles were, “The Elements of Sport” and, “The Grasshopper: A Thesis Concerning the Moral Ideal of Man.” The Elements of Sport In that volume, we find two essays by Bernard Suits that would later be incorporated into Suits’s The Grasshopper (see the Acknowledgements). Fanny Blanker-Koen winning a race as a statue of Aristotle ( evidently from Palace Spada in Rome) contemplates her accomplishment

The Grasshopper by Bernard Suits