Ethics and Sport

On Sport and the Philosophy of Sport

A Wittgensteinian Approach

By Graham McFee

Series: Ethics and Sport

What is the ‘philosophy of sport’? What does one do to count as a practitioner in the philosophy of sport? What conception of philosophy underpins the answer to those questions? In this important new book, leading sport philosopher Graham McFee draws on a lifetime’s philosophical inquiry to...

Published June 2nd 2015 by Routledge

Phenomenological Approaches to Sport

Edited by Irena Martínková, Jim Parry

Series: Ethics and Sport

The study of sport is often thought of simply in terms of the sport sciences. This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences and how the very concepts required by sport science stand in...

Published April 27th 2015 by Routledge

Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport

On Becoming an Elite Athlete

By Kenneth Aggerholm

Series: Ethics and Sport

'Why don’t young athletes in sport just quit?’ Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of being a talented young sportsperson striving...

Published December 11th 2014 by Routledge

Philosophy and the Martial Arts

Engagement

Edited by Graham Priest, Damon Young

Series: Ethics and Sport

This is the first substantial academic book to lay out the philosophical terrain within the study of the martial arts and to explore the significance of this fascinating subject for contemporary philosophy. The book is divided into three sections. The first section concerns what philosophical...

Published September 26th 2014 by Routledge

Dispute Resolution in Sport

Athletes, Law and Arbitration

By David McArdle

Series: Ethics and Sport

An increasing number of sport disputes are being resolved by way of arbitration. This is the first book to critically examine the processes and benefits of sportspecific arbitration as compared to litigation. The book explores, in depth, the development of alternative dispute resolutions in sports,...

Published August 27th 2014 by Routledge

Sport and Art

An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport

By Andrew Edgar

Series: Ethics and Sport

Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common ground. Both are ways in which humans confront philosophical challenges, though they do this through very different media. While art deploys sensual...

Published July 19th 2013 by Routledge

Watching Sport

Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion

By Stephen Mumford

Series: Ethics and Sport

Do we watch sport for pure dumb entertainment? While some people might do so, Stephen Mumford argues that it can be watched in other ways. Sport can be both a subject of high aesthetic values and a valid source for our moral education. The philosophy of sport has tended to focus on participation,...

Published April 12th 2013 by Routledge

Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport

Ethical, Legal and Social Perspectives

Edited by Mike McNamee, Verner Møller

Series: Ethics and Sport

The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines. This book adds uniquely to that catalogue of discourses by focusing on extant anti-doping policy and...

Published March 15th 2013 by Routledge

Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World

Contests of Virtue

By Heather L. Reid

Series: Ethics and Sport

This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and...

Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge

The Ethics of Sports Medicine

Edited by Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö

Series: Ethics and Sport

The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as: are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy...

Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge