Barry Smith, “The Ontology of Poker”
There is blind chess but there is no blind poker. This is because to play poker essentially involves the use of cards and chips (or representations of or proxies for cards and chips). A game of chess, in contrast, may involve only the exchange of speech acts. We draw initial conclusions for the ontology of poker from this distinction.
Talk presented on March 14, 2014
For a revised and expanded set of slides see: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/14/poker-March-2014.ppt