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13The Aesthetics of The Olympic Art CompetitionsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 39 (2): 185-199. 2012.In the Olympic Art Competitions (1912–1948) Pierre de Coubertin expresses his conception of both sport and art as instruments of moral renewal. In this paper, this conception is criticised for failing to appreciate art and sport as necessary manifestations of modernism. The Art Competitions were informed by a traditionalist aesthetic, and thus played a highly conservative role within Olympism. A modernist art about sport, in contrast, would have been a source of critical reflection, potentially …Read more
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23SportworldSport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (1). 2013.(2013). Sportworld. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Vol. 7, Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport, pp. 30-54. doi: 10.1080/17511321.2013.761881
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74Football and the Poetics of SpaceSport, Ethics and Philosophy 9 (2): 153-165. 2015.This paper explores space as a core source of aesthetic pleasure in various codes of football. The paper begins by applying Kant’s distinction between the agreeable and the pleasurable to sport, arguing that the appreciation of sport entails more than just excitement. Pleasure comes from an appreciation of the rules, strategies and history of the game. The significance of the rules of various codes of football in articulating our experience of space will be taken as fundamental to such appreciat…Read more
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63Prospects for Flourishing in Contemporary Health CareHealth Care Analysis 24 (2): 101-104. 2016.This special issue of Health Care Analysis originated in an conference, held in Birmingham in 2014, and organised by the group Think about Health. We introduce the issue by briefly reviewing the understandings of the concept of ‘flourishing’, and introducing the contributory papers, before offering some reflections on the remaining issues that reflection on flourishing poses for health care provision
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11Culture and criticism: AdornoIn Simon Glendinning (ed.), The Edinburgh Encylopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. 1999.
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The health service as civil associationIn Michael Parker (ed.), Ethics and Community in the Health Care Professions, Routledge. pp. 15. 1999.
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121The Hermeneutic Challenge of Genetic Engineering: Habermas and the TranshumanistsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 12 (2): 157-167. 2009.The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact that developments in transhumanist technologies may have upon human cultures, and to do so by exploring a potential debate between Habermas and the transhumanists. Transhumanists, such as Nick Bostrom, typically see the potential in genetic and other technologies for positively expanding and transcending human nature. In contrast, Habermas is a representative of those who are fearful of this technology, suggesting that it will compound the delet…Read more
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22Sport, Rules and Values: Philosophical Investigations Into the Nature of Sport By Graham McFee. Published 2004 by Routledge, London and New York (review)Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 32 (1): 119-121. 2005.
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19Three ways of watching a sports videoSport, Ethics and Philosophy 10 (4): 403-415. 2016.It does not typically seem to be worthwhile rewatching a sport match, for example, in a video recording, once the result is known. Sports matches are like detective stories. Once one knows ‘whodunit’, there seems little point in revisiting the tale. By drawing on an argument from musicologist Edward T. Cone, this paper argues that certain sports matches may be revisited with profit. The initial experience of a game may be of a series of events that are often ambiguous or confusing as to their me…Read more
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118A Hermeneutics of SportSport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (1). 2013.(2013). A Hermeneutics of Sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Vol. 7, Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport, pp. 140-167. doi: 10.1080/17511321.2012.761893
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60The Beauty of SportSport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (1). 2013.(2013). The Beauty of Sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Vol. 7, Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport, pp. 100-120. doi: 10.1080/17511321.2013.761886
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60Sport and PhilosophySport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (1). 2013.(2013). Sport and Philosophy. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Vol. 7, Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport, pp. 10-29. doi: 10.1080/17511321.2013.761882
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