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Suits and “game-playing”: formalism and subjectivism revisited. A critique Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Ned Lis-Clarke, Adrian Walsh
ABSTRACT 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 paper we explore a third and distinct line of inquiry according to which sports betting is of considerable moral concern insofar as it undermines the ideals of sport by transforming the manner and modes
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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 Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Brian Komyathy
ABSTRACT 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 outrun the bear. I only have to outrun you’. Hiking/trekking is not typically a competitive endeavor characterized by contests but, like many endeavors/pursuits/activities, competition can be injected
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Ethical Justifications for the Use of Animals in Competitive Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 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 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 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 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 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...
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From Running to Cross-Country Skiing and Beyond – Can Sport Count as a Pre-Eminently Aesthetic Activity? Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Margus Vihalem
ABSTRACT The article explores the realm of sport from an aesthetic point of view. Making a sustained physical effort regularly may have a positive impact on our psycho-somatic being and can sustain our health and well-being. But what exactly is this aesthetic component in sport and is it possible that this aesthetic component prevails over other components when it comes to individual sport? Moreover
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Testimonial Injustice in Sports Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Federico Luzzi
ABSTRACT Epistemic injustice is a widely discussed phenomenon in many sub-disciplines (including epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy). Yet, there is very little literature on its connection to the philosophy of sports. Here I explore the intersection between epistemic injustice and sports, focusing on testimonial injustice. I argue that there exist clear-cut cases
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The ethics of pigeon racing Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Jan Deckers, Silvina Pezzetta
There is a dearth of academic research on the ethics of pigeon racing. We argue that pigeon racing is associated with significant benefits and disadvantages, but that the benefits that have been as...
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A Dispute Over Golf Balls Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Andrew Edgar
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2023)
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Why Carlos Ramos was in compliance with his duty and USTA and WTA are wrong in the case of US Open 2018 women’s final Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Jiri Malis, Tomas Michalica
ABSTRACT The aim of the article is to point out the problem that started in the 2018 US Open final between Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams. During this final match, there was a conflict between the player S. Williams and the chair umpire C. Ramos, which involved a violation of rules related to coaching during the match. Subsequently, C. Ramos was banned from officiating the Williams sisters' matches
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Hands, Feet, Eyes, and the Object a: A Lacanian Anatomy of Football Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Sandra Meeuwsen, Hub Zwart
In this paper, we present a Lacanian perspective on football, while notably fathoming its normative dimension. Starting with a defining imperative, the prohibition against ‘handling’ or touching th...
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A ‘Game’ Bird? On Why Hunting is Not a Game and Thus Not a Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Rebekah Humphreys
This paper aims to provide a conceptual analysis of blood-sport as a concept. Through utilising a generalised notion of sport as well as the concept of fair-play, the objective will be to examine w...
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Sport in an Algorithmic Age: Michel Serres on Bodily Metamorphosis Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Aldo Houterman
ABSTRACT The algorithm has become an increasingly important concept in understanding human behavior in recent years. In the case of sport, human bodies are seen as superficial to the driving force of the algorithm, whether it be genetic, behavioral or surveillance-technological algorithms (Harari Citation2015, 2020; Zuboff Citation2019). However, the French mathematician and philosopher Michel Serres
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Bourdieu’s Field Theory Revisited: A Case for ‘National Signification’ Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Torgeir Fjeld
ABSTRACT This essay investigates whether the term national signification may serve better than the more common national identity to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves and their practice. Taking the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu as a ground for analysis, this essay investigates four cases involving elite athletes from Norway to situate them
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Dogs and tigers and fish, oh my! Sporting captivity Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Elizabeth Foreman, Pam R. Sailors
In contemporary society, humans interact with nonhuman animals in a number of ways, many of which involve the captivity of the nonhuman animals involved. Nonhuman animals trained for sport (sled do...
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Horses as players in equine sports Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jason Holt
Though animal ethics in sport obviously applies most urgently to cases of animals at mortal risk (e.g., hunting and bullfighting) or vulnerable to various types of abuse (e.g., doping and harmful t...
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Seeking and Confronting Self-Imposed Challenges Set One Free: Suits, Psychoanalysis, and Sport Philosophy Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Francisco Javier Lopez Frias
Since Sigmund Freud developed and popularized psychoanalysis, this psychological theory has significantly influenced contemporary thinking, particularly in philosophical disciplines focused on unde...
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Skateboarding, Time and Ethics: An Auto Ethnographic Adventure of Motherhood and Risk Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Esther Sayers
ABSTRACT As a 52-year-old academic and mother of three, this research explores the ethics of the question ‘do I have time to go skateboarding?’ Using the themes of time, injury, ageing and learning, it explores the question in relation to Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity. The approach employs autoethnographic and sensory methods to document the authors own experience of learning to skateboard
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Will to power: Revaluating (female) empowerment in ‘fitspiration’ Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Aurélien Daudi
ABSTRACT Female empowerment has long been a prominent social concern in Western culture. With the rise of social media, the quest for female empowerment has become embodied in self-presentational practices, occurring conspicuously throughout the Instagram fitness subculture: ‘fitspiration’. Here, female empowerment is merged with the body-centrality inherent to fitness, and the self-sexualization that
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Book Symposium: Jason Holt, Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Jason Holt, Stephen Mumford, John E. MacKinnon, Andrew Edgar
ABSTRACT This book symposium on Jason Holt’s Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport includes commentaries from Stephen Mumford, John E. MacKinnon and Andrew Edgar with replies from Holt.
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Filozofija sporta: nastanak i razvoj discipline (Philosophy of Sport: Emergence and Development of the Discipline) Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Lev Kreft
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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The Evolving eSports Landscape: Technology Empowerment, Intelligent Embodiment, and Digital Ethics Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Yujun Xu
ABSTRACT The field of eSports is undergoing a process of developing and evolving with irresistible forces. The process witnesses the ever-refreshing and hybrid meanings and definitions of Sports and eSports in the digital era of technology empowerment and advancing artificial intelligence. This paper calls us to re-construct the meanings and sporting values of eSports, re-evaluate the eSports landscape
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Cripping Sport and Physical Activity: An Intersectional Approach to Gender and Disability Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Rémi Richard, Helene Joncheray, Valentine Duquesne
ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to propose an intersectional approach to gender and disability in sport. Starting from the postulate that the production of gender and disability-related norms is based on similar social logics, we will first show how these normative systems intersect in the field of sport and participate in the construction of heteronormative and ableist patterns. Then, we
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Book Symposium: Kevin Krein’s Philosophy and Nature Sports Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Kevin Krein, Jim Parry, Irena Martínková, Gunnar Breivik, Rebekah Humphreys
ABSTRACT This is a book symposium on Kevin Krein’s Philosophy and Nature Sports. Gunnar Breivik, Jim Parry and Irena Martínková, and Rebekah Humphreys provide critical commentary on the text. The critical comments are followed by a response from Krein. The discussion covers a broad range of topics. These include the definition of “sport,” comparisons between nature sports and friluftsliv, the role
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Come on You Rooks Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Andrew Edgar
Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2023)
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Bahama Mammas: Uncovering the Mountainous Layers of Sexist Views of Breasts and Sport Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Charlene Weaving
ABSTRACT Some twenty years ago, sport philosopher Ken Saltman in ‘Men with Breasts’ argued that breasts in American culture signify nurturing motherhood, the object of love and desire, and are capable of selling numerous products from cars to perfume. Saltman focused on bodybuilding and argues that there is gender subversion in bodybuilding reinforced by stereotypical contradictoriness of gender norms
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Sport and Politics in the Twenty-First Century Sport, Ethics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Sandra Meeuwsen, Lev Kreft
ABSTRACT In this article, we address the aporia(s) of the Olympic discourse produced by the troubled split between sport and politics. To start our argument, we will show that sporting governing bodies continuously insist that they are still on the other side of any kind of politics. Guided by Aristotle, who presented the reciprocity of ethics and politics, we will unveil the fallacy of this discourse