The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport is a landmark publication in sport studies. It goes further than any book has before in tracing the contours of the discipline of the philosophy of sport and in surveying the core themes, approaches and theories that form its disciplinary fabric. The book explores the ways in which an understanding of philosophy can inform our understanding of important prevailing issues in sport. Edited by two of the most significant figures in the development of the philosophy of sport, Mike McNamee and Bill Morgan, and with contributions from many of the world’s leading sport philosophers, this is an invaluable companion reference volume for any course in the social scientific study of sport, and an essential addition to the bookshelf of any serious scholar of the philosophy and/or ethics of sport.
Author(s): McNamee, Mike J.; Morgan, William John
Series: Routledge international handbooks
Publisher: Routledge;Taylor and Francis Ltd
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 472
Tags: Физическая культура и спорт;
Content: Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
A historical introduction to the philosophy of sport
SECTION I Philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of sport
1 Formalism and sport
2 Internalism and sport
3 Conventionalism and sport
4 An institutional theory of sport
SECTION II Philosophical theories and sport
5 Aesthetics of sport
6 Bioethics and sport
7 Eastern philosophy
8 Epistemology and sport
9 Ethics and sport
10 Existential philosophy and sport
11 Feminism in the philosophy of sport
12 Phenomenology and sport 13 Philosophy of mind and sport14 Pragmatism and the philosophy of sport
15 The radical critique of sport
16 Religion, theology and sport
17 Sport as a legal system
18 Metaphysics and sport
SECTION III Key issues and themes in the philosophy of sport
19 Competition
20 Disability and Paralympic sport
21 Doping and anti-doping: an inquiry into the meaning of sport
22 Fair play
23 Genetics, science fiction and the ethics of athletic enhancement
24 Olympism --
a philosophy of sport?
25 Philosophical approaches to coaching
26 Spectatorship --
watching and following sport 27 Sport, commerce and the market28 Technology and sport
Index
