Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics

José Luis Pérez Triviño is an associate professor of philosophy of law at the Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Law and Philosophy, he has realized research stages to the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics of the University of Oxford and in the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Genova (Italy) and Córdoba (Argentina). He has given conferences in several universities and international congresses on philosophy of sport. He has also been deputy director of the Law Department and coordinator of the Law PhD program at the Pompeu Fabra University (2007-2010).

The first book in English by Professor Pérez Triviño is very much welcomed. The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics: From Doping to Cyborgs examines some of the most pressing current ethical challenges in sport as well as those looming on the athletic horizon. At the same time, it manifests the challenges that sport poses to ethical thinking. Pérez Triviño writes clearly and his arguments are as rigorous as they are thought-provoking. This book is of value to established scholars and could serve as an engaging reading assignment in both graduate and undergraduate classrooms.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Moral value of sport: Fair play, Cheating, and strategic intentional foulsChapter 3: DopingChapter 4: Sport and sexual discriminationChapter 5: Sport, war and violenceChapter 6: Sport, politics, and nationalismChapter 7: Technological advances and future challenges of sportConclusionsBibliography