Ethics and Sport
About the Book Series
The Ethics and Sport Series was the first of its kind in the world and is the key source for scholars in the field. Its main aim has been to support and contribute to the development of the study of ethical issues in sport, and indeed to the continued development of Sports Ethics as a legitimate discipline in its own right.
Academics and devotees of sport have long debated ethical questions in sport issues such as, cheating, violence, and fair play, but recent changes in the world of sport and the world at large have seen expansion in the remit of the Ethics and Sport Series to cover new areas such as the commercialisation and commodification of sports, and the use of human enhancement technologies including genetic technologies within sport. The series will continue to address the changing ethical dimensions of sport’s landscape.
Philosophical ethics may be seen as both a theoretical academic discipline and as an ordinary everyday activity contributing to conversation, journalism and the media, as well as practical decision-making for those working in sport. Titles in Ethics and Sport Series draw on research in philosophical ethics as well as related disciplines such as social theory, psychology and cultural studies with the aim of providing a resource for readers from diverse professional and academic backgrounds.
The series aims to encourage critical reflection on the practice of sport, and to stimulate professional evaluation and development. Each volume explores new work relating to philosophical ethics and the social and cultural study of ethical issues. Each volume is different in scope, appeal, focus and treatment. A balance between local and international foci, perennial and contemporary issues, levels of audience, teaching and research application, is present. Each volume is complete in itself, but also complements others in the series.
Rugby, Decolonisation and African Moral Philosophy: Post-Apartheid Transformations in South Africa
1st Edition
By Colin Chasi
April 15, 2026
This book examines the complex interrelationship between rugby, honour, and the African moral philosophy of ubuntu, positioning sport within the broader history of coloniality to reveal how athletic practices can become powerful vehicles for social justice transformation. The book offers a nuanced ...
On Bernard Suits’ Philosophy: How Play, Games, and Sport Shape a Life Worth Living
1st Edition
By Francisco Javier López Frías, Alexander H. Asay
March 09, 2026
On Bernard Suits’ Philosophy situates Suits’ work within philosophy, play and leisure studies, as well as the philosophy of sport. It introduces his core ideas and offers a comprehensive interpretation, presenting Suits as a thinker who explores gameplay to ask how one can live well. This book ...
The Ethics of Sports Coaching
2nd Edition
Edited
By Alun R. Hardman, Carwyn Jones, Pam R. Sailors
February 19, 2026
Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, The Ethics of Sports Coaching examines the key ethical issues at the centre of sports coaching practice. Arguing that the coaching process is inherently moral rather than simply instrumental, and that coaches must be fully aware of the ethical ...
Vicarious Liability in the Sports Industry
1st Edition
By James Brown
October 27, 2025
This timely book is the first to critically examine the doctrine of vicarious liability in the context of the sports industry. Drawing on theoretical, empirical and interdisciplinary research, the book focuses on the close connection test at stage two of vicarious liability, highlighting how ...
Artificial Intelligence and Neuroenhancement in Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberto Carrio
October 09, 2025
This book is the first to take a close look at artificial intelligence and neuroenhancement in the context of sport, and at the potential of these new technologies to act as enablers of neurodoping. It considers the interesting possibilities that these technologies raise for enhancing athletic ...
Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport
1st Edition
By Andrew Edgar
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Political Expression in Sport: Transnational Challenges, Moral Defences
1st Edition
By Cem Abanazir
May 27, 2024
This powerful new book looks at how private institutions governing and organising sport restrict political expression. Uniquely, it makes a case for the freedom of expression for athletes, spectators and audiences built upon philosophical foundations. In the era of Colin Kaepernick and taking a ...
Philosophy, Sport and the Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey P. Fry, Andrew Edgar
September 25, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of our social, cultural, and commercial lives, including the world of sport. This book examines the ethical and philosophical dimensions of the intersection of COVID-19 and sport. The book goes beyond simple description of the impact of ...
The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagon
1st Edition
Edited
By Jason Holt, Marc Ramsay
May 31, 2023
Mixed martial arts (MMA)—unarmed fighting games permitting techniques derived from a variety of martial arts and combat sports— has exploded from the fringes of sport into a worldwide phenomenon, a sport as controversial as it is compelling. This is the first book to pay MMA the serious ...
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium
1st Edition
By Bernard Suits, Christopher C. Yorke, Francisco Javier López Frías
September 30, 2022
In this sequel to Bernard Suits’ timeless classic philosophical work The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, published in its full and unabridged form for the first time, Suits continues to explore some of our most fundamental philosophical questions, including the value of sport and games, and ...
Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use
1st Edition
By Ask Vest Christiansen
February 01, 2022
This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. Building on the international research literature and in-depth interviews with men who have experience of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), the book explores the ...
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport
1st Edition
By Jason Holt
September 30, 2021
Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a comprehensive, principled, pluralist introduction to the philosophical aesthetics of sport. The book tackles a wide variety of issues in the philosophical aesthetics of sport, ...