"In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," says the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles."…
Grant Farred takes up the event as a philosophical problem from a novel perspective, examining infamous events in sport and arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it. He shows how what was inherent in the event i…
The author examines three infamous events in sport, arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it.
The author examines three infamous events in sport, arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it.
Philosophy, sport and the pandemic
by Fry, Jeffrey P., Edgar, Andrew
fromEthics and sport
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of our social, cultural and commercial lives, including the world of sport. This book examines the ethical and philosophical dimensions of the intersection of COVID-19 and sport. The book goes beyond simple description of t…
A historical introduction to the philosophy of sport / Mike McNamee and William J. Morgan -- Section 1. Philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of sport -- Formalism and sport / Scott Kretchmar -- Internalism and sport / Robert L. Simon -- Conventionalism and sport / W…
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 dis…
