Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport

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.

A historical introduction to the Philosophy of Sport
Mike McNamee & William J. Morgan

Part I: Philosophical Approaches to the Conceptualisation of Sport

1. Formalism and Sport
Scott Kretchmar

2. Internalism and Sport
Robert L. Simon

3. Conventionalism and Sport
William J. Morgan

4. An Institutional theory of sport
Graham McFee

Part II: Philosophical Theories and Sport

5. Asthetics of Sport
Andrew Edgar

6. Bioethics and Sport
Silvia Camporesi

7. Eastern Philosophy
Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza
Takayuki Hata

8. Epistemology and Sport
Steffen Borge

9. Ethics
Mike McNamee

10. Existential Philosophy and Sport
Kenneth Aggerholm

11. Feminism in the Philosophy of Sport
Leslie A. Howe

12. Phenomenology and Sport
Irena Martinkova

13. Philosophy of Mind and Sport
Paul Davis

14. Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport
John Kaag

15. The radical critique of Sport
Lev Kreft

16. Religion, Theology and Sport
Gregg Twietmeyer

17. Sport as a legal system
John S. Russell

18. Metaphysics and Sport
Stephen Mumford

Part III: Key Issues and Themes in the Philosophy of Sport

19. Competition
Paul Gaffney

20. Disability and Paralympic Sport
Steve Edwards
Mike McNamee

21. Doping and Anti-Doping: An inquiry into the Meaning of Sport
Thomas H. Murray

22. Fair Play
Sigmund Loland

23. Genetics, science fiction and the ethics of athletic enhancement
W. Miller Brown

24. Olympism – A Philosophy of Sport?
Heather L. Reid

25. Philosophical Approaches to Coaching
Jeffrey P. Fry

26. Spectatorship – watching and following Sport
Carwyn Jones

27. Sport, Commerce and the Market
Adrian Walsh

28. Technology and Sport
Rasmus Bysted Moller
Verner Moller