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9Book review: Nancy R. Howell. A feminist cosmology: Ecology, solidarity, and metaphysics. Amherst: Humanity books, 2000 (review)Hypatia 20 (1): 212-214. 2005.
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363Self and pretence: Playing with identityJournal of Social Philosophy 39 (4): 564-582. 2008.This paper considers the importance of play as a conventional space for hypothetical self-expression and self-trial, its importance for determination of identity, and for development of self-possibilities. Expanding such possibilities in play enables challenging of socially entrenched assumptions concerning possible and appropriate identities. Discussion is extended to the contexts of gender performance (drag) and sport-play. It is argued that play proceeds on the basis of a fundamental prete…Read more
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505Ludonarrative dissonance and dominant narrativesJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 44 (1): 44-54. 2017.This paper explores ludonarrative dissonance as it occurs in sport, primarily as the conflict experienced by participants between dominant narratives and self-generated interpretations of embodied experience. Taking self-narrative as a social rather than isolated production, the interaction with three basic categories of dominant narrative is explored: transformative, representing a spectrum from revelatory to distorting, bullying and colonising. These forms of dominant narrative prescribe inter…Read more
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475Convention, Audience, and Narrative: Which Play is the Thing?Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 38 (2): 135-148. 2011.This paper argues against the conception of sport as theatre. Theatre and sport share the characteristic that play is set in a conventionally-defined hypothetical reality, but they differ fundamentally in the relative importance of audience and the narrative point of view. Both present potential for participants for development of selfhood through play and its personal possibilities. But sport is not essentially tied to audience as is theatre. Moreover, conceptualising sport as a form of th…Read more
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Areas of Interest
The Self |
Practical Identity |
Existentialism |
19th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Sport |