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27Introduction to the Philosophy of SportRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2012.Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport begins with the history of sport, delves into both the metaphysics and ethics of sport, and also addresses dimensions of the social and political elements of sport. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of sport with a straightforward layout that professors can plan and build their courses around
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Athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome: Contests of virtueSport, Ethics and Philosophy 4 (2): 109-234. 2010.
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60The Political Heritage of the Olympic Games: Relevance, Risks, and Possible RewardsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 6 (2): 108-122. 2012.The Olympic movement sometimes claims that sport has nothing to do with politics, yet its goal of promoting peace is explicitly political. The Olympics' association with peace, furthermore, is inherited from the ancient version of the festival which took place in a very distant time and place. This essay examines the ancient political heritage of the Olympic Games and questions its relevance to such modern Olympic challenges as globalisation, cultural hegemony, social discrimination and environm…Read more
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9Sports, Virtues and Vices: Morality Plays: By Mike McNamee. Published 2007 by Routledge, London and New York (review)Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 36 (2): 263-265. 2009.
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32Olympic Sport and Its Lessons for PeaceJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 33 (2): 205-214. 2006.No abstract
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16Boxing with tyrantsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 4 (2): 146-56. 2010.Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal Like those champions devoted and brave, When they plunged in the tyrant their steel And to Athens deliverance gave. (Edgar Allan Poe, ‘Hymn to Harmodius an...
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21The “Hand of God”'s: Essays in the Philosophy of Sport By Claudio M. Tamburrini. Published 2000 by Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Box 222, SE-405 30, Sweden (review)Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 29 (2): 182-186. 2002.
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67Sport and Moral Education in Plato’s RepublicJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 34 (2): 160-175. 2007.No abstract
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30Olympic EpistemologyProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 47 19-28. 2008.The ancient world witnessed a meaningful transition in the conception of human thought and belief. What some have called the “discovery” of the mind can also be understood as a release from dependence on oracular wisdom and mythological explanation, made possible by the invention of more reliable and democratic methods for discovering and explaining truths. During roughly the same epoch, Hellenic sport distinguished itself by developing objective mechanisms for selecting single winners from vari…Read more
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63Athletic Beauty in Classical Greece: A Philosophical ViewJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 39 (2): 281-297. 2012.Classical Greece is famous for its athletic art, particularly the image of the nude male athlete. But how did the Greeks understand athletic beauty? Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and others discuss athletes’ beauty, while the educational ideal of kalokagathia conceptually connects athletic beauty with the good. More questions need to be answered, however, if we are to understand ancient athletic beauty. We need to ask ourselves what the Greeks appreciated when they looked at athletic bodies. What …Read more
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34The Socratic AgonProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 2 173-183. 2008.It often surprises modern readers to find the cerebral philosopher Socrates hanging out in gymnasia and wrestling schools. We tend to downplay Socrates’ association with athletes and contest as mere literary window-dressing. I would like to suggest, to the contrary, that Plato’s depiction of Socrates as an athlete goes beyond dramatic setting and linguistic metaphor. Plato actually presents Socrates as an athlete of the soul, engaged in intellectual contest, occasionally defeating his opponents,…Read more
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2The Art of Teaching Philosophy in Plato’s LysisSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 16 (1-2). 2005.
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71Olympic Sacrifice: A Modern Look at an Ancient TraditionRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 73 197-210. 2013.The inspiration for this paper came rather unexpectedly. In February 2006, I made the long trip from my home in Sioux City, Iowa, to Torino, Italy in order to witness the Olympic Winter Games. Barely a month later, I found myself in California at the newly-renovated Getty Villa, home to one of the world's great collections of Greco-Roman antiquities. At the Villa I attended a talk about a Roman mosaic depicting a boxing scene from Virgil's Aeneid. The tiny tiles showed not only two boxers, but a…Read more
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30Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek IdealsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 4 (3): 359-361. 2010.
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21Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports WorldLexington Books. 2011.Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World provides a tripartite model of sports ethics founded on ancient Greek principles and focused on personal, civic, and global integration. Heather Reid and Mark Holowchak apply these concepts as a "golden mean" between the extremes of the commercialist and recreational models of competition. This treatment is most applicable to students and academics concerned with the philosophy of sport, but will also be of interest to those in sp…Read more
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7The “Hand of God”'s: Essays in the Philosophy of Sport By Claudio M. Tamburrini. Published 2000 by Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Box 222, SE-405 30, Sweden (167 pp.) (review)Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 29 (2): 182-186. 2002.
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51Sport, Philosophy, and the Quest for KnowledgeJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 36 (1): 40-49. 2009.No abstract
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11Olympic Epistemology: the Athletic Roots of Philosophical ReasoningSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 18 (1-2): 19-28. 2007.The ancient world witnessed a meaningful transition in the conception of human thought and belief. What some have called the “discovery” of the mind can also be understood as a release from dependence on oracular wisdom and mythological explanation, made possible by the invention of more reliable and democratic methods for discovering and explaining truths. During roughly the same epoch, Hellenic sport distinguished itself by developing objective mechanisms for selecting single winners from vari…Read more
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29Aristotle's pentathleteSport, Ethics and Philosophy 4 (2): 183-94. 2010.Beauty varies with each age. In a young man, it consists in possessing a body capable of enduring all efforts, either of the racecourse or of bodily strength, while he himself is pleasant to look u...
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25The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of SportSport, Ethics and Philosophy 9 (1): 83-86. 2015.
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94Athletes as heroes and role models: an ancient modelSport, Ethics and Philosophy 11 (1): 40-51. 2017.A common argument for the social value of sport is that athletes serve as heroes who inspire people – especially young people – to strive for excellence. This argument has been questioned by sport philosophers at a variety of levels. Not only do athletes seem unsuited to be heroes or role models in the conventional sense, it is unclear more generally what the social and educational value of athletic excellence could be. In this essay, I construct an argument for the social and educational value …Read more
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32The philosophical athleteCarolina Academic Press. 2019.All athletes experience victory and defeat, but how many truly learn from the experience of sport? For ancient Greek philosophers, sport was an integral part of education. Today, athletics programs remain in schools, but we face a growing gap between the modern sports experience and enduring educational values. This book seeks to bridge that gap by advocating a philosophical approach to the sports experience. Combining issues and ideas from traditional philosophy with contemporary analyses of sp…Read more
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20Sports, Virtues and Vices: Morality Plays: By Mike McNamee. Published 2007 by Routledge, London and New YorkJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 36 (2): 263-265. 2009.No abstract
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52Athletic virtue: Between east and westSport, Ethics and Philosophy 4 (1). 2010.Despite the rich philosophical heritage of the East, the connection between athletics and education for character or virtue is more commonly associated with the West. Classical Eastern philosophy does focus on virtue, but it seems to exclude sport as a means of cultivation since the Confucian is uninterested in victory and the Daoist seeks passivity and avoids contention. A closer look reveals, however, that Eastern conceptions of virtue have much in common with those of Ancient Greece so often …Read more
Heather Reid
Morningside College
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Morningside CollegeRetired faculty
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Exedra Mediterranean Center, Siracusa, SicilyScholar In Residence
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Applied Ethics |
Classics |