Philosophy of sport
Philosophy of sport: critical readings, crucial issues
edited by M. Andrew Holowchak
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002.
ISBN: 0130941220
DDC: 796.01
LCC: GV706
Edition: (pbk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Selections from Homo Ludens /Johan Huizinga --Nature of sport: a
definitional effort /John W. Loy, Jr. --Tricky triad: games, play,
and sport /Bernard Suits --Triad trickery: playing with sports and
games /Klaus V. Meier --Matter of life and death: some thoughts on
the language of sport /Jeffrey O. Segrave --Practices and prudence
/W. Miller Brown --Moral liberalism and the atrophy of sport:
autonomy, desire, and social irresponsibility /M. Andrew Holowchak
--Is sport unique?: a question of definability /S.K. Wertz
--Well-played game: notes toward an aesthetics of sport /E.F. Kaelin
--Aesthetic in sport /David Best --Beauty, sport, and gender /J.M.
Boxill --Differences between sport and art /Christopher Cordner
--Three approaches toward an understanding of sportsmanship /Peter J.
Arnold --Sportsmanship and fairness in the pursuit of victory /Robert
Simon --Can cheaters play the game? /Craig K. Lehman --Fair play:
historical anachronism or topical ideal? /Sigmund Loland --Where's
the merit if the best man wins? /David Carr --Overemphasis on
winning: a philosophical look /Joan Hundley --On winning and athletic
superiority /Nicholas Dixon --Dark side of competition /D. Stanley
Eitzen --Into the endzone for a touchdown: a psychoanalytical
consideration of American football /Alan Dundes --Violence and
aggression in contemporary sport /Jim Parry --Sports and speciesism
/Maurice L. Wade --Paternalism, drugs, and the nature of sports /W.M.
Brown --On performance-enhancing substances and the unfair advantage
argument /Roger Gardner --"Aretism" and pharmacological ergogenic
aids in sport: taking a shot at the use of steroids /M. Andrew
Holowchak.
On reaching first base with a "science" of moral development in
sport: problems with scientific objectivity and reductivism /Russell
W. Gough --Epistemologist looks at the hot hand in sports /Steven D.
Hales --Is our admiration for sports heroes fascistoid? /Torbjörn
Tännsjö --Sports, fascism, and the market /Claudio M. Tamburrini
--Television sport and the sacrificial hero /John Izod --Women and
masculine sports /B.C. Postow --Title IX and gender equity /Jan
Boxill --Men's cultural centre: sports and the dynamic of women's
oppression/men's repression /Bruce Kidd --Title IX: equality for
women's sports? /Leslie P. Francis --White men can't run /Amby
Burfoot --Racial differences in sports: what's ethics got to do with
it? /Albert Mosley --Education for peace in sports education /Frans
de Wachter --Virtue lost: courage in sport /John Corlett
--Aggression, gender, and sport: reflections on sport as a means of
moral education /M. Andrew Holowchak.
Sport in the larger scheme of things /William J. Morgan --Democracy,
education, and sport /Peter J. Arnold --Sports and the making of
national identities: a moral view /William J. Morgan.
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