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519Wax 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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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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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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53Nothing New Under the Sun: Holism and the Pursuit of ExcellenceSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (3): 230-257. 2014.
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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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49Selfless 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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48Between 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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46Between 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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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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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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36Section III: Holistic Bridges: The Mind Sciences, Phenomenology, and Our SkillsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 343-343. 2014.
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35Taijiquan 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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3410—Everything Mysterious Under the Moon—Social Practices and Situated HolismSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 503-566. 2014.
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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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32Selfless 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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317—Riding The Wind—Consummate Performance, Phenomenology, and Skillful FluencySport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (4): 374-419. 2014.
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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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30Muscular 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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29High-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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28Toward a genealogy of spectacle: understanding contemporary spectacular experiences (review)Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 11 (2): 238-243. 2017.
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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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21New 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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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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