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Kant goes skydivingIn M. J. McNamee (ed.), Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports, London ;routledge. pp. 149. 2007.
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51Heather L. Reid, Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport (review)Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 40 (2): 279-286. 2013.(2013). Heather L. Reid, Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 279-286. doi: 10.1080/00948705.2013.836708
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55Cesar R. Torres. Gol de media cancha: Conversaciones para disfrutar del deporte plenamente. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila Editores, 2011 (review)Dilemata 8 209-215. 2012.
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Gol de media cancha: Conversaciones para disfrutar del deporte plenamente (review)Dilemata 209-215. 2012.
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21Underperformance under stress is common in many activities such as the arts and academic performance, but examples are particularly evident in sport's "choking" effect—a failure to perform to levels already achieved when the person tries to be at his or her best. Rory McIlroy "disintegrated" at the 2011 U.S. Masters, while Greg Norman epically lost in 1996. On the other end of the spectrum, Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps thrived under media pressure to deliver record-breaking performances at the …Read more
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308—Fractured Action—Choking in Sport and its Lessons for ExcellenceSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 420-453. 2014.A minute ago he’d felt fine, or thought he felt fine, but now the possibility of failure had entered his mind, and the difference between possible failure and inevitable failure felt razor slight.C...
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27From clumsy failure to skillful fluency: a phenomenological analysis of and Eastern solution to sport’s choking effectPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (2): 397-421. 2015.Excellent performance in sport involves specialized and refined skills within very narrow applications. Choking throws a wrench in the works of finely tuned performances. Functionally, and reduced to its simplest expression, choking is severe underperformance when engaging already mastered skills. Choking is a complex phenomenon with many intersecting facets: its dysfunctions result from the multifaceted interaction of cognitive and psychological processes, neurophysiological mechanisms, and phe…Read more
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3410—Everything Mysterious Under the Moon—Social Practices and Situated HolismSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 503-566. 2014.
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Between the Horns. Part I: a dilemma in the interpretation of the running of the bullsSport, Ethics, and Philosophy 1 3. 2007.
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Between the Horns. Part II: an existentialist solution to the dilemma on the running of the bullsSport, Ethics, and Philosophy 2 1-18. 2008.
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6Kant goes skydiving : Understanding the extreme by way of the sublimeIn M. J. McNamee (ed.), Philosophy, Risk, and Adventure Sports, London ;routledge. 2007.
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50Between the Horns: A Dilemma in the Interpretation of the Running of the Bulls - Part 2: The EvasionSport, Ethics and Philosophy 2 (1). 2008.This second part of the essay deals with the horns of the dilemma at the conceptual level and ?on the street?. The first part ended with that quandary where a deep understanding was precluded no matter which way one turned, whether an inadequate comprehension based on individual and partial notions, a perplexing pluralist path or a relinquishment of the hermeneutic enterprise altogether. The philosophical solution of existential overtones presently put forward deftly avoids the sharp ends of the…Read more
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47Between the Horns: A Dilemma in the Interpretation of the Running of the Bulls – Part 1: The ConfrontationSport, Ethics and Philosophy 1 (3): 325-345. 2007.The essay, divided in two parts, examines the event of the running of the bulls (encierro in Spanish). The phenomenon of the encierro, a complex cultural activity of deep historical roots, demands to be understood: What drives people to risk injury or death at the horns of untamed bulls? How should we make sense of this, subjective and objectively? To answer these questions, I use a framework that relies on explanation and assessment of popular views on the way to arguing for a philosophical alt…Read more
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20Muscular Imaginings—A Phenomenological and Enactive Model for ImaginationSport, Ethics and Philosophy 11 (1): 92-108. 2017.A phenomenological model is developed as an alternative to current analyses of the imagination in sport philosophy, heirs to an Enlightenment notion that conceptualizes imaginings as abstract, eidetic, and representational. EC describes how Eidetic and Corporeal Imaginings phenomenologically structure our imaginative undertakings. EIs keep the ‘ideal’ aspect, but CIs—enacted, corporeal, non-representational—are more fundamental and foundational. Sports are particularly suited to express CIs’ mus…Read more
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Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Asian Philosophy |
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