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.
Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance: Skillful Striving
1st Edition
By Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza
January 11, 2019
Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance is a multi-methodological and cross-cultural examination of how we flourish holistically through performative endeavors, e.g., sports, martial and performing arts. Relying primarily on sport philosophy, value theory, phenomenology, ...
Bioethics, Genetics and Sport
1st Edition
By Silvia Camporesi, Mike McNamee
March 07, 2018
Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, this book offers an ethical critique of ...
Gender Testing in Sport: Ethics, cases and controversies
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandy Montanola, Aurélie Olivesi
June 16, 2017
After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was temporarily withdrawn from international competition. The way that this controversy unfolded represents a rich and multi-layered example of the ...
Phenomenology and Pedagogy in Physical Education
1st Edition
By Oyvind Standal
June 16, 2017
Phenomenology is a philosophical approach to the study of consciousness and subjective experience. In recent years it has become a more prominent element of the social scientific study of sport and a core component of the important emergent concept of physical literacy. This book is the first to ...
On Sport and the Philosophy of Sport: A Wittgensteinian Approach
1st Edition
By Graham McFee
December 22, 2016
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 ...
Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport: On Becoming an Elite Athlete
1st Edition
By Kenneth Aggerholm
August 03, 2016
'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...
Dispute Resolution in Sport: Athletes, Law and Arbitration
1st Edition
By David McArdle
May 31, 2016
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,...
Olympic Ethics and Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike McNamee, Jim Parry
November 10, 2014
This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games. The essays consider a range of topics including critical reflections on nationalism and internationalism within the Olympic movement, sexism in ...
Phenomenological Approaches to Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Irena Martínková, Jim Parry
November 10, 2014
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 ...
Philosophy and the Martial Arts: Engagement
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Priest, Damon Young
October 01, 2014
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 ...
Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport: Ethical, Legal and Social Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike McNamee, Verner Møller
June 20, 2013
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 ...
Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion
1st Edition
By Stephen Mumford
April 11, 2013
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, ...