Full Description
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.
Contents
A historical introduction to the Philosophy of Sport Part I: Philosophical Approaches to the Conceptualisation of Sport 1. Formalism and Sport 2. Internalism and Sport 3. Conventionalism and Sport 4. An Institutional theory of sport Part II: Philosophical Theories and Sport 5. Asthetics of Sport 6. Bioethics and Sport 7. Eastern Philosophy 8. Epistemology and Sport 9. Ethics 10. Existential Philosophy and Sport 11. Feminism in the Philosophy of Sport 12. Phenomenology and Sport 13. Philosophy of Mind and Sport 14. 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 Part 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 Market 28. Technology and Sport
