The Ethics and Sport Series was the first of its kind in the world and is the key source for scholars in the field. Its main aim has been to support and contribute to the development of the study of ethical issues in sport, and indeed to the continued development of Sports Ethics as a legitimate discipline in its own right.
Academics and devotees of sport have long debated ethical questions in sport issues such as, cheating, violence, and fair play, but recent changes in the world of sport and the world at large have seen expansion in the remit of the Ethics and Sport Series to cover new areas such as the commercialisation and commodification of sports, and the use of human enhancement technologies including genetic technologies within sport. The series will continue to address the changing ethical dimensions of sport’s landscape.
Philosophical ethics may be seen as both a theoretical academic discipline and as an ordinary everyday activity contributing to conversation, journalism and the media, as well as practical decision-making for those working in sport. Titles in Ethics and Sport Series draw on research in philosophical ethics as well as related disciplines such as social theory, psychology and cultural studies with the aim of providing a resource for readers from diverse professional and academic backgrounds.
The series aims to encourage critical reflection on the practice of sport, and to stimulate professional evaluation and development. Each volume explores new work relating to philosophical ethics and the social and cultural study of ethical issues. Each volume is different in scope, appeal, focus and treatment. A balance between local and international foci, perennial and contemporary issues, levels of audience, teaching and research application, is present. Each volume is complete in itself, but also complements others in the series.
By Steffen Borge
June 04, 2019
Human beings are the only creatures known to engage in sport. We are sporting animals, and our favourite pastime of football is the biggest sport spectacle on earth. The Philosophy of Football presents the first sustained, in-depth philosophical investigation of the phenomenon of football. In ...
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By Ivo van Hilvoorde
March 22, 2019
Digital technology plays an important role in the everyday lives of people. New types of ‘digital sports’, (sport) gaming, exergaming, cybersport and eSports increase in popularity all over the world and are even challenging the modern and hegemonic concept of sport. Modern games can hardly be ...
By Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza
January 11, 2019
Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance is a multi-methodological and cross-cultural examination of how we flourish holistically through performative endeavors, e.g., sports, martial and performing arts. Relying primarily on sport philosophy, value theory, phenomenology, ...
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By Bertrand Fincoeur, John Gleaves, Fabien Ohl
December 11, 2018
Doping in Cycling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides an up-to-date overview of the knowledge about doping and anti-doping in the sport that has dominated doping headlines for at least two decades. It critically addresses overarching questions related to doping and anti-doping, and topical ...
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By Mike McNamee
November 30, 2017
This book represents a bold statement concerning the excitement and energy of the field of sports ethics and philosophy in contemporary terms. It is comprised of a collection of commissioned essays from the leading international scholars in the field to celebrate the ten year editorship of Mike ...
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By Gunnar Breivik
October 26, 2017
Taking part in a sport means that one must acquire the relevant skills: mental, physical and strategic. This book presents a new perspective on the role of skills, knowledge and intentionality in sporting contexts, examining how these skills and practical 'know how' can be perfected to a level of ...
By Silvia Camporesi, Mike McNamee
March 07, 2018
Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, this book offers an ethical critique of ...
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By Bernard Andrieu, Jim Parry, Alessandro Porrovecchio, Olivier Sirost
January 31, 2018
The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surrounding environment through consciousness, perception, knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking collection, leading scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy draw on research on topics as diverse as...
By Christophe Brissonneau, Jeffrey Montez de Oca
January 03, 2018
Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The first study to span the period from 1950 to 2010, it sheds new light on the extraordinary world of elite sport in ...
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By Sandy Montanola, Aurélie Olivesi
June 16, 2017
After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was temporarily withdrawn from international competition. The way that this controversy unfolded represents a rich and multi-layered example of the ...
By Oyvind Standal
June 16, 2017
Phenomenology is a philosophical approach to the study of consciousness and subjective experience. In recent years it has become a more prominent element of the social scientific study of sport and a core component of the important emergent concept of physical literacy. This book is the first to ...
By Graham McFee
December 22, 2016
What is the ‘philosophy of sport’? What does one do to count as a practitioner in the philosophy of sport? What conception of philosophy underpins the answer to those questions? In this important new book, leading sport philosopher Graham McFee draws on a lifetime’s philosophical inquiry to ...