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Book Symposium: Alfred Archer and Jake Wojtowicz’s Why it’s OK to be a Sports Fan Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Alfred Archer, Jake Wojtowicz, Adam Kadlac, Joe Slater, Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt, Nina Windgätter
This is a book symposium on Why It’s OK to Be a Sports Fan, by Alfred Archer and Jake Wojtowicz, with contributions from Adam Kadlac, Joe Slater, Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt, and Nina Windgätter. The d...
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Fair Play Principle in Esports Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Krzysztof Pezdek
The aim of the article is the analysis of the principle of fair play which co-creates an axiological basis of contemporary sport as well as its basic moral category. The constituents of fair play a...
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Be a good sport: A care ethical inquiry into sport parenting Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Esther Schoots, Alistair Niemeijer, Gustaaf Bos
In recent years, reports on youth sports excesses and abuses of minors underscore the need for a safer sport environment. However, the way in which parents guide their children in dealing with winn...
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Weight in sport: changing the focus from ‘weight-sensitive sports’ to risk groups of athletes Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Irena Martínková, Jacob Giesbrecht, Jim Parry
The aim of this article is to examine how different types of sports rules place unique demands upon athletes with regard to their weight and how these demands condition different strategies of weig...
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The etymological evolvement and redefinition of ‘game’ Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Jiangzhu Bai, Xiaotian Wei, Rongting Zhou
This research revisits the conceptual foundations and definitions of ‘game’, distinguishing it from ‘sport’ and ‘play’ through an etymological and philosophical lens. Given the vast range of ‘game’...
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Informing evidence-based policy for sport-related concussion: are the consensus statements of the concussion in sport group fit for this purpose? Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Mike Weed
This essay explores how evidence-based policy can be developed for sport-related concussion (SRC), focusing particularly on the role and influence of the Consensus Statements of the Concussion in S...
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Sport-related concussion (SCR) prevention and the nature of sport: possibilities and limitations Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Sigmund Loland
Concussions are traumatic brain injuries that can result from a blow to the head or a jolt to the body. Athletes in many sports are exposed to concussion risks. There is a growing concern in sport ...
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Litigation and liability in concussion research and collaboration Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 David McArdle, A. L. DeMartini
This paper explores, first, the common law principles of personal injury litigation explored through court decisions relating to sports injuries in (primarily) England and Wales and, second, the st...
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NFL’s dangerous strategies of marketing football to youth: shades of big tobacco Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Asher Clissold, Kathleen Bachynski
Comparisons have been made between the tobacco industry’s historic tactics in defending their products with the responses of some key actors in the sports world to head injuries. Both, it is said, ...
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Autonomy, relationality, and brain-injured athletes: a critical examination of the Concussion in Sport Group’s Consensus Statements between 2001 and 2023 Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Francisco Javier Lopez Frias, Mike McNamee
This article critically examines the development and consensus outputs of the Concussion in Sport Group. We examine the six Consensus Statements between 2001 and 2023 to explore the challenges that...
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Ethical concerns in integrating sport-related concussion (SRC) genetic testing into return-to-play (RTP) protocols Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Tatiana Spitsyna, Pascal Borry
The occurrence of sport-related concussions (SRCs) has emerged as a significant health concern in professional sports, with millions of concussions occurring worldwide each year. Current return-to-...
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Concussion management in pediatric patients – ethical concerns Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Taryn Knox, Alexander Gilbert, Lynley Anderson
Collision sports pose a high risk of concussion. How to respond to this risk is more ethically complex when considering children and adolescents due to a) incomplete evidence regarding the impact o...
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Uses and abuses of the concept of race in genomics of sport performance and sport-related traumatic brain injury: epistemological and ethical considerations Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ludovica Lorusso, Silvia Camporesi
In this article, we tackle the epistemological and ethical issues related to the use of race concepts in the genomics of sport performance and sport-related concussion (SRC). In the first part of t...
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Sport, neurodegenerative illness and the social determinants of health Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Dominic Malcolm
This article proposes a Social Determinants of Health framework as a counter to the prominence of bio-determinist tropes in understandings of the relationship between concussion and later life neur...
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The responsibility of sports federations to facilitate and fund concussion research and the role of active participant involvement and engagement Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Søren Holm
It is generally accepted that we need more research into concussions and other injuries with potential long-term effects in sport because such research underpins effective, evidence-based preventio...
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Addressing conflicts of interest in the Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: a proposal to increase transparency by requiring authors to provide a reflexive explanation, not simply a declaration, of their competing interests Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Brad Partridge
The 6th Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport is authored by the Concussion in Sport Group (CiSG) and intends to provide evidence-based recommendations on concussion management for the welfare...
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Sports integrities: a conceptual and methodological framework for analysis and policymaking Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Mike McNamee, Marcelo Moriconi
Since the manipulation of sport competitions became one of the main threats to sport integrity, both the academy and international organizations have sought to establish a coherent conceptual frame...
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Judging athletic movement in moving images: a critique of agonic reason in representations of alpine sport, seen through the Paltrow v. Sanderson ski crash trial Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Kalle Jonasson, Jonnie Eriksson
This paper concerns the judgement and critique of athletic movement in moving images. Inspired by the ski crash trial case of Paltrow v. Sanderson, and by comparing different media representations ...
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The Contest Paradox Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Yuval Eylon
The paper introduces the “Contest Paradox”: on the one hand, rational competitors employ the most effective means to achieve the constitutive end of games - winning; On the other hand, apparently r...
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Editorial – the Premier league and financial regulation Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Andrew Edgar
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2024)
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Normative Pluralism and Sporting Integrity Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Cem Abanazir
Official documents, such as the Word Anti-Doping Code (WADC), argue that sport can be deemed a homogenous and unitary concept. Even where different sports have varying characteristics, the homogeno...
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Winning with mētis: embodied virtues in sport practice, from Odysseus to Maradona Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Raúl Sánchez-García, Massimiliano L. Lorenzo Cappuccio, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza
The Greek word mētis (μῆτις) traditionally refers to a particular form of wily intelligence associated with the arts of deception (dolos) and the knowledge of tricks (kerdē), subterfuges, and traps...
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Suits and “game-playing”: formalism and subjectivism revisited. A critique Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Paulo Antunes
In his work, Bernard Suits presents and pursues a stated objective: to define ‘game’ or, more precisely, ‘game-playing’. In The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, the author seeks a definition no...
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Defending technology: a normative defence of technologically assisted officiating in binary referee situations Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Torben Kjærsgaard
This article discusses how technological official aids influence sporting competitions in terms of fairness and flow. It addresses the main arguments against technological official aids used to ass...
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The sportization of esports and its implications in the near future of sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Pere Molina, Fernando Gómez-Gonzalvo, Javier Valenciano-Valcárcel
Esports have transformed playing video games into a competitive activity that bears similarities to sports and the processes of sportization. Taking as a starting point the concept of sports as com...
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Sport governing bodies and the prioritization of human rights: a conceptual analysis of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) dispute with Russia Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Hans Erik Næss
This article addresses the moral and legal difficulties sport governing bodies encounter as human rights promoters. The case presented here is the 2023 decision by the International Olympic Committ...
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Hermann Schmitz and the ”New Phenomenology of sports”. A programmatic outline Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Robert Gugutzer
Phenomenology has long been one of the basic theoretical and methodological approaches in sports philosophy. Among the many varieties of philosophical phenomenology, phenomenological sports researc...
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Sport as a political football: understanding the collision of sport and politics Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Sam Duncan
While the sport-politics nexus is not new, there is little doubt that the collision of sport and politics has become more frequent, more complex, and in many instances, more intense. This paper dra...
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Emersiology in Sport Science: The Unconscious Living Body in the Case of Corporeal Non-Property Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Marie Agostinucci, Claire Liné, Erwann Jacquot, Juliette Vincent, Edmna Manis, Aline Paintendre, Mary Schirrer, Bernard Andrieu
The implicit activities of the living body in sports (such as heart rate, involuntary gestures, stress, reflex, emotional regulation and interaction expressions) emerge in the consciousness of the ...
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Editorial: Special Issue Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: ‘Sport and Psychoanalysis’ Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Sandra Meeuwsen
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Destiny of Drives and the Triangular Method: Starting Points for a Psychoanalytic Philosophy of Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Odilon José Roble
This text argues that psychoanalytic philosophy is a valuable tool for the Philosophy of Sport. To situate it within the philosophical tradition, I place Freud’s ideas as an heir to the Philosophy ...
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Freud’s Psychoanalysis and the Genealogy of Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Jernej Pisk
Freudian psychoanalysis offers us often neglected but unique and very fruitful possibilities for an original interpretation of sport. In this article we first look at some basic Freudian concepts, ...
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The Influence of Psychoanalysis on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and the Pulsional Body in the Gaming Experience Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Terezinha Petrúcia da Nóbrega, Judson Cavalcante Bezerra
In this essay, we address the influence of psychoanalysis on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of the esthesiological body. Our analyses are about the relation of senses and meanings established among the...
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Dancing in Movements, Movements in Sports: a Comparative Approach Toward a Metaphysical Realist Ontology Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Arturo Leyva
Ontological approaches to the arts have neglected art forms such as dance. This hinders analysis of the metaphysical similarities and differences between different art forms. In this paper, I devel...
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Human Rights and Inclusion Policies for Transgender Women in Elite Sport: The Case of Australia ‘Rules’ Football (AFL) Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Catherine Ordway, Matt Nichol, Damien Parry, Joanna Wall Tweedie
The discourse inside and outside of sport in Australia and abroad on the participation of transgender women in female sport focuses on the principles of fairness, equity and the safety of competito...
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Sport Structured Brain Trauma is Child Abuse Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Eric Anderson, Gary Turner, Jack Hardwicke, Keith D. Parry
This article first summarizes research regarding the relationship between sports that intentionally structure multiple types of brain trauma into their practice, such as rugby and boxing, and the r...
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Book Symposium on Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Francisco Javier López Frías, Christopher C. Yorke
Bernard Suits’ groundbreaking work, The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, has profoundly shaped the philosophy of sport. Its sequel, Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure, and the Good Life...
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Introduction to Special Issue of SEP: Sport and Species Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 S.P. Morris, Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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Anti-Doping Policy, Health, and Harm Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jo Morrison
The anti-doping policies of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) aim to promote a level playing field and protect the health of the athlete. Anti-doping policy discourages research using performance...
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Scaffolding athletes’ choices and performance in risky and uncertain circumstances Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Thomas Schramme
In this paper, I discuss the risks of brain injuries in collision and contact sports and make a proposal to address them without limiting the autonomy of athletes. I aim to analyse the circumstance...
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Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure, and the Good Life in the Third Millennium Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Taliah L. Powers
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘Ecce Ego’: Apollo, Dionysus, and Performative Social Media Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Aurélien Daudi
Epitomized in the bodily exhibitions of ‘fitspiration’, photo-based social media is biased toward self-beautification and glorification of reality. Meanwhile, evidence is growing of psychological s...
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Reframing the Debate over Performance-Enhancing Drugs: The Reasonable Athlete Argument Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Matthew C. Altman
Two of the major arguments against performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), appealing to fairness and the protection of athletes’ health, have serious flaws. First, there is no relevant moral distinctio...
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Towards a Value-Neutral Definition of Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Michael Hemmingsen
In this paper I argue that philosophers of sport should avoid value-laden definitions of sport; that is, they should avoid building into the definition of sport that they are inherently worthwhile ...
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Embodied Experience, Embodied Advantage, and the Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport: Expanded Framework, Criticisms, and Policy Recommendations Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Francisco Javier Lopez Frias, Cesar R. Torres
In a previous paper entitled ‘Beyond Physiology: Embodied Experience, Embodied Advantage, and the Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport,’ we claim that analyses of the inclusion or...
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Ontology and interdisciplinary research in esports Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Tom Brock
This article identifies the benefits of adopting a critical realist ontology to researching esports in the social sciences. The article outlines some of the challenges in researching esports, payin...
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Heidegger and the possibilities of ‘Authenticity’ in Sports participation Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Neslihan Filiz
The aim of this paper is to analyze the possibility of ‘authenticity’, in other words, ‘authentic being’ in sports, based on the ideas in Heidegger’s Being and Time (Sein und Zeit). In order to do ...
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Anschlag auf Olympia. Was 1972 in München wirklich geschah Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jacob Kornbeck
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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“Nothing is funnier than suffering”. Sport as a comic and perverse aesthetic practice Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Andy Harvey
The article takes up diverse strands of psychoanalytic thinking to investigate how desire is manifested in male team sporting environments. In particular, it is posited that sporting desire shares ...
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Why the rules do not prohibit cheating in sports Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sinclair A. MacRae
ABSTRACT The idea that cheaters cannot (really) win in sports persists among philosophers, mainly due to the lingering influence of Bernard Suits’ logical incompatibility thesis. In this article I explain why the thesis does not apply to sports. I argue that the question whether cheating can be prohibited in sports is empirical rather than analytic, as is the case for games subject to the thesis. Thus
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A philosophical look at running friendships Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Douglas Hochstetler
ABSTRACT Friendship constitutes an integral part of human flourishing. Aristotle (1996) famously wrote, ‘For no one would choose to live without friends, but possessing all other good things’ (p. 205). Members of our respective practice communities (MacIntyre, 1984) understand and appreciate our passion for running or basketball, tennis or cycling. The friends we develop through sport, and herein I
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What is a Metagame? Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Michael Hemmingsen
Abstract The concept of metagames can be of use to philosophers of sport and games. However, the term “metagame” is used throughout the literature in several different, distinct senses, few of which are clearly defined, and as a result there remains ambiguity about what, precisely, this term means. In this paper, I attempt to disambiguate the term metagame. I have come across at least four different
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Meaning and morality in boxing Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Michael-John Turp
Abstract While sport is often pursued more for reasons of meaning than morality, philosophers have had far less to say about the former. How are the ends of sport related to meaning and morality? I address the question through the case study of boxing. One reason for this approach is that the moral status of boxing is contested, which makes it an interesting candidate for immoral, meaningful activity
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At Odds? Sports, Gambling and Hyper-Commodification Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Ned Lis-Clarke, Adrian Walsh
Critical commentaries on the burgeoning industry of sports betting have focused on either its potential (i) to promote problem gambling or (ii) to encourage betting-related corruption. In this pape...
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‘I can’t outrun a bear, but I can outrun you:’ sport contests, nature challenge activities and outdoor recreation Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Brian Komyathy
The old adage has two people out hiking who run into a bear. One starts running while the other asks ‘why are you running? You can’t outrun a bear’. To which the other responds, ‘I don’t have to ou...
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Ethical Justifications for the Use of Animals in Competitive Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Madeleine L.H. Campbell
Recently, shifting societal attitudes towards animals have resulted in an increasing challenge to the ‘social license’ to use animals in competitive sport. Against that background, this paper explo...
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Sport and AI Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Andrew Edgar
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Sublimation and drives in sports: a psychoanalytic perspective Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Yunus Tuncel
In continuation with my on-going research and presentations on sport as a field of channeling and externalizing cruelty and violence, as a field of transfiguration of drives, in this paper I will e...
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Self-affirmation in sled dogs? Affordances, perceptual agency, and extreme sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Eric Gilbertson, Bob Fischer
We argue that extreme endurance sport can be valuable for some nonhuman animals. To make the case, we focus specifically on dogsled racing. We argue that, given certain views about the nature of se...
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Hunting, the Duty to Aid, and Wild Animal Ethics Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 S.P. Morris
Herein I engage with the very difficult question of whether the duty to aid (sometimes called a duty of assistance or a duty of beneficence) extends so far as to justify harming persons, perhaps ev...