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37Sport as strategic action: A Habermasian perspectiveSport, Ethics and Philosophy 1 (1). 2007.The purpose of this paper is to explore the moral status of sport through a conceptual structure borrowed from Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory. Habermas distinguishes between communicative and strategic action as two ways in which social action may be coordinated. While the former relies on the building of mutual understanding between social agents, the latter entails one agent manipulating others, as if they were mere objects to be treated instrumentally. In an initial model of s…Read more
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86Integrity and the moral complexity of professional practiceNursing Philosophy 12 (2): 94-106. 2011.The paper offers an account of integrity as the capacity to deliberate and reflect usefully in the light of context, knowledge, experience, and information (that of self and others) on complex and conflicting factors bearing on action or potential action. Such an account of integrity seeks to encompass the moral complexity and conflict of the professional environment, and the need for compromises in professional practice. In addition, it accepts that humans are social beings who must respect and…Read more
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1Alexander Broadie, ed., The Cambridge Companion to The Scottish Enlightenment Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (2): 86-89. 2004.
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15The 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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24SportworldSport, 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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78Football 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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12Culture and criticism: AdornoIn Simon Glendinning (ed.), The Edinburgh Encylopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. 1999.
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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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124The 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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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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23Sport, 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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