Emotions in Sport and Games

Alfred Archer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University. His primary research is in moral philosophy, particularly supererogation and the nature and ethics of admiration. He also has research interests in the philosophy of sport, aesthetics, political philosophy, applied ethics and philosophy of emotion. He is on the executive board for both the British Philosophy of Sport Association and the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. Nathan Wildman is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, and a member of the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, and aesthetics. He is especially interested in the nature of fiction, the logic of fictional truth, and the aesthetics of interactive fictions.

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