Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport

Mike McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics at Swansea University, UK. His research interests and teaching span a broad range from the philosophy and ethics of engineering to medicine and health care, the ethics of sports and research ethics. He is a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and was the founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He serves or has served on the executive committees of many national and international associations, including the European College of Sport Science, the International Council for Sport Science and Physical Education, and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. He is the founding Editor of the journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, has written or edited 16 books in applied philosophy and ethics in sport and health, and is a founding co-editor of the landmark book series Ethics and Sport (Routledge). William J. Morgan is a Professor in the Division of Occupational Science and School of Communication, University of Southern California, USA. His major research interests are in ethics, critical theory and political theory, and most of his work has been devoted to the study of popular culture, especially contemporary sports and the Olympic Games. He is the author or editor of five books on sport, including Why Sports Morally Matter, the runner-up for the Best Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport in 2006. He has been the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Association of the Philosophy of Sport and elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Kinesiology, and he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport [Mike McNamee and William J. Morgan] Part I: Philosophical Approaches to the Conceptualisation of Sport 1. Formalism and Sport [Scott Kretchmar] 2. Internalism and Sport [Robert L. Simon] 3. Conventionalism and Sport [William J. Morgan] 4. An Institutional Theory of Sport [Graham McFee] Part II: Philosophical Theories and Sport 5. Asthetics of Sport [Andrew Edgar] 6. Bioethics and Sport [Silvia Camporesi] 7. Eastern Philosophy [Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza and Takayuki Hata] 8. Epistemology and Sport [Steffen Borge] 9. Ethics [Mike McNamee] 10. Existential Philosophy and Sport [Kenneth Aggerholm] 11. Feminism in the Philosophy of Sport [Leslie A. Howe] 12. Phenomenology and Sport [Irena Martinkova] 13. Philosophy of Mind and Sport [Paul Davis] 14. Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport [John Kaag] 15. The Radical Critique of Sport [Lev Kreft] 16. Religion, Theology and Sport [Gregg Twietmeyer] 17. Sport as a Legal System [John S. Russell] 18. Metaphysics and Sport [Stephen Mumford] Part III: Key Issues and Themes in the Philosophy of Sport 19. Competition [Paul Gaffney] 20. Disability and Paralympic Sport [Steve Edwards and Mike McNamee] 21. Doping and Anti-Doping: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sport [Thomas H. Murray] 22. Fair Play [Sigmund Loland] 23. Genetics, Science Fiction and the Ethics of Athletic Enhancement [W. Miller Brown] 24. Olympism: A Philosophy of Sport? [Heather L. Reid] 25. Philosophical Approaches to Coaching [Jeffrey P. Fry] 26. Spectatorship: Watching and Following Sport [Carwyn Jones] 27. Sport, Commerce and the Market [Adrian Walsh] 28. Technology and Sport [Rasmus Bysted Moller and Verner Moller]