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10Winning with mētis: embodied virtues in sport practice, from Odysseus to MaradonaSport, Ethics and Philosophy 1-19. forthcoming.The Greek word mētis (μῆτις) traditionally refers to a particular form of wily intelligence associated with the arts of deception (dolos) and the knowledge of tricks (kerdē), subterfuges, and traps. Mētis evokes innovative and ground-breaking solutions, based on the capability to understand, anticipate, and possibly violate the others’ expectations. Most importantly, mētis presupposes practical wisdom, or prudence (phrόnesis), a dispositional quality that underpins all the virtues that deserve t…Read more
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Brains, Blades, and BuddhistsIn Robert H. Scott & James McRae (eds.), Introduction to Buddhist East Asia, Suny Press. pp. 101-129. 2023.
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12Relational Pain: The Perspective from the Other Side of the LensConstructivist Foundations 17 (2): 152-154. 2022.Open peer commentary on the article “Kaleidoscope of Pain: What and How Do You See Through It” by Maja Smrdu. Abstract: Relational dynamics are the vital cornerstone for a holistic understanding of chronic pain, particularly for a 5E stance. Enactivism and Buddhism prove most expedient to examine such dynamics in a theoretical and practical fashion.
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92Cycling - Philosophy for Everyone: A Philosophical Tour de Force (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.Covering interesting and varied philosophical terrain, _Cycling - Philosophy for Everyone_ explores in a fun but critical way the rich philosophical, cultural, and existential experiences that arise when two wheels are propelled by human energy. Incorporates or reflects the views of high-profile and notable past-professional cyclists and insiders such as Lennard Zinn, Scott Tinley, and Lance Armstrong Features contributions from the areas of cultural studies, kinesiology, literature, and politic…Read more
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3Life Cycles and the Stages of a Cycling LifeIn Fritz Allhoff, Jesús Ilundáin‐Agurruza & Michael W. Austin (eds.), Cycling ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Child's Play Adolescent Infatuation Flourishing Adulthood Midlife Crisis Pit Stop Unreflective Maturity Maturity Cycles to Sofia (No, Not the Bulgarian Capital) Old Age Re‐Cycling Notes.
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4Getting in GearIn Fritz Allhoff, Jesús Ilundáin‐Agurruza & Michael W. Austin (eds.), Cycling ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Notes.
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3On the Crest of the WaveIn Patrick Goold & Fritz Allhoff (eds.), Sailing – Philosophy for Everyone, Blackwell. 2012-07-01.This chapter contains sections titled: Ahoy! The Sublime Poetry of Sail and Wind Poseidon's Wrath She Moves One is Free … on a Boat?
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2Taking a ShotIn Fritz Allhoff & Nathan Kowalsky (eds.), Hunting Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Looking Down the Barrel Chambering the Philosophical Rounds Firing Blanks Loaded Words and Shooting Straight The Virtuous Hunter Parting Shot Notes.
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35Selfless Activity and Experience: Radicalizing Minimal Self-AwarenessTopoi 39 (3): 509-520. 2020.This paper explicates how we might positively understand the distinctive, nonconceptual experience of our own actions and experiences by drawing on insights from a radically enactive take on phenomenal experience. We defend a late-developing relationalism about the emergence of explicit, conceptually based self-awareness, proposing that the latter develops in tandem with the mastery of self-reflective narrative practices. Focusing on the case of human newborns, Sect. 1 reviews and rejects claims…Read more
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51Selfless Activity and Experience: Radicalizing Minimal Self-AwarenessTopoi 1-12. 2018.This paper explicates how we might positively understand the distinctive, nonconceptual experience of our own actions and experiences by drawing on insights from a radically enactive take on phenomenal experience. We defend a late-developing relationalism about the emergence of explicit, conceptually based self-awareness, proposing that the latter develops in tandem with the mastery of self-reflective narrative practices. Focusing on the case of human newborns, Sect. 1 reviews and rejects claims…Read more
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10Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance is a multi-methodological and cross-cultural examination of how we flourish holistically through performative endeavors, e.g., sports, martial and performing arts. Relying primarily on sport philosophy, value theory, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, pragmatism, and East Asian philosophies (Japanese and Chinese), it espouses thick holism. Concerned with an integrative bodymind gradually achieved through performance that aims at …Read more
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22On the Compatibility Between Confucianism and Modern OlympismJournal of Chinese Philosophy 43 (1-2): 103-123. 2016.At the confluence between Modern Olympism and Confucian teachings—nowadays embodied and expressed in East Asian Confucianisms—there are meaningful overlaps, significant challenges, and opportunities. This paper examines these. Despite radically different origins and apparently incommensurate tenets, we should not assume that the underlying ideals of Modern Olympism and East Asian Confucianisms cannot benefit mutually. It is precisely when considering their putative weak points, such as Modern Ol…Read more
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546Wax On, Wax Off! Habits, Sport Skills, and Motor IntentionalityTopoi 40 (3): 609-622. 2020.What role does habit formation play in the development of sport skills? We argue that motor habits are both necessary for and constitutive of sensorimotor skill as they support an automatic, yet inherently intelligent and flexible, form of action control. Intellectualists about skills generally assume that what makes action intelligent and flexible is its intentionality, and that intentionality must be necessarily cognitive in nature to allow for both deliberation and explicit goal-representatio…Read more
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23New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics ed. by A. Minh NguyenPhilosophy East and West 69 (1): 1-8. 2019.Minding Shunryu Suzuki's counsel that "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few,"1 the modus operandi for this review embraces a beginner's mind in its enthusiastic, open, and non-discriminating attitude. This is all the more advisable on account of the plethora of disciplinary approaches, methodologies, and themes covered. As such, this is how New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics' content will be summarized, commented upon, and evaluated: in light of i…Read more
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11Sports and Disciplined Movement – Paths To Stimulating StrivingsRecerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 18 49-72. 2016.The focus of this article is the relation between life, sport, and disciplined movement. How do these enhance life? This means looking at sports in terms of the qualitative experiences they afford and considering the role of disciplined movement. Phenomenological description helps explore the normative paths that heighten said experiences. At their best, such paths result in skillful strivings to excel within communitarian frameworks, of which the Japanese practices of self-cultivation are exemp…Read more
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31Muscular 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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...In the Realms of Art: A Conceptual Inquiry of the Genesis of the Work of ArtDissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2000.The thesis is concerned with the creation and origin of the work of art. It attempts to explain the unique metaphysical status of artworks as cultural products. The genesis of the work of art, which I understand to be collaborative and deeply historical in nature, is analyzed using a framework that resorts to both philosophical traditions, analytic and continental, as well as to art history and sociology. I argue that the work of art is actualized when the artistic object is endowed with an inte…Read more
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42Zhuangzi—Playful wandererSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (3): 315-342. 2014.His batting stance was pure Skrimmer, the easy sink of the knees, the sense of prevailing silence, the dart of the hands to the ball. Good players tended to be good mimics: old footage of Aparicio,...
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18Skillful Striving: Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performative EndeavorsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (3): 223-229. 2014.Skillful Striving investigates the nature of the cultivation of excellence, the conditions that render it possible, and its potential for inspiration from the perspective of enactive wisdom—one that by enacting lays down a way or path. Performative endeavors whose telos centrally involves physical performance—sports, martial and performing arts, crafts–—are the focus of this inquiry. These are privileged ways for a holistic cultivation of our talents and limitations. The main philosophical thrus…Read more
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38Taijiquan and the Body without Organs: a holistic framework for sport philosophyJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 43 (3): 424-439. 2016.This paper examines and contrasts the Chinese notion of ‘inside-outside connectivity’ emphasized in Taijiquan studies with French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘Body without Organs.’ Pursuing this dialogue while relating this to sport redresses a lack of novel thought and linkages with contemporary thought in Chinese scholarship, and most interestingly for sport, opens new lines of inquiry that help redefine our bodies as holistic sites of performance.
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32High-level Enactive and Embodied Cognition in Expert Sport PerformanceSport, Ethics and Philosophy 11 (3): 370-384. 2017.Mental representation has long been central to standard accounts of action and cognition generally, and in the context of sport. We argue for an enactive and embodied account that rejects the idea that representation is necessary for cognition, and posit instead that cognition arises, or is enacted, in certain types of interactions between organisms and their environment. More specifically, we argue that enactive theories explain some kinds of high-level cognition, those that underlie some of th…Read more
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336—Waking Up From The Cognitivist Dream—The Computational View of the Mind and High PerformanceSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 344-373. 2014.At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So although I heard the emptiness intellectually, I didn’t feel it. My first reaction consisted of being grat...
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28Toward a genealogy of spectacle: understanding contemporary spectacular experiences (review)Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 11 (2): 238-243. 2017.
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36Section III: Holistic Bridges: The Mind Sciences, Phenomenology, and Our SkillsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 343-343. 2014.
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317—Riding The Wind—Consummate Performance, Phenomenology, and Skillful FluencySport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 374-419. 2014.
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419—Reflections on a Katana – The Japanese Pursuit of Performative MasterySport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 455-502. 2014.One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon. (Zen Saying)1Thirty spokes converge on a hub/but it’s the emptiness/that makes the wheel work/pots are fashioned from clay/but it’s the ho...
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53Nothing New Under the Sun: Holism and the Pursuit of ExcellenceSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (3): 230-257. 2014.
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20Section IV. East and West Teamwork: A Comparative Analysis of Skillful PerformanceSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 454-454. 2014.
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Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Asian Philosophy |
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