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Equality and the case of women's sportIn Miroslav Imbrišević (ed.), Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport, Routledge. 2023.
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7Nature sport’s ism problemJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 51 (2): 225-238. 2024.Nature sports have been touted for their value “as ways of pursuing excellence and relating to the environment” (Krein 2014, 207). This value, however, is not widely available, in large part due to structural features that create barriers to access for all but able-bodied white men possessing substantial disposable income. In this paper, we will analyse four ‘isms’ that are prominent in nature sport: ableism, classism/elitism, racism, and sexism/heterosexism. Through an examination of nature spo…Read more
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5More than Meets the “I”In Fritz Allhoff & Stephen E. Schmid (eds.), Climbing ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: The Death Zone Summiteers Mountaineers Conclusion Notes.
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18Dogs and tigers and fish, oh my! Sporting captivitySport, Ethics and Philosophy 17 (4): 477-487. 2023.In contemporary society, humans interact with nonhuman animals in a number of ways, many of which involve the captivity of the nonhuman animals involved. Nonhuman animals trained for sport (sled dogs, horses trained for dressage, etc.), nonhuman animals confined for human entertainment (zoos, aquariums, circuses, etc.), and companion animals are all held captive by the human beings who interact with them. However, the moral acceptability of these forms of captivity seems to vary widely; this var…Read more
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Mixed Competition and Mixed MessagesIn William John Morgan (ed.), Ethics in Sport, Human Kinetics. 2007.
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31What money can buy: technology and breaking the two-hour ‘marathon’ recordJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 49 (1): 1-18. 2021.On 12 October 2019, Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a ‘marathon’, known as the INEOS 1:59 Challenge, in less than 2 hours in a time of 1:59:40.2. However, his time was n...
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241Transgender and Intersex Athletes and the Women’s Category in SportSport, Ethics and Philosophy 14 (4): 419-431. 2020.Issues surrounding the inclusion of transgender and intersex athletes in the women’s category in sport have spurred vigorous, and sometimes vicious, debate. The loudest voices on one edge of the de...
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15Better days: aging and athletic attitudeJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 47 (1): 1-13. 2020.Plato famously characterized philosophy as practice for dying and death; contemporary philosophers in bioethics have produced a vast literature on the quest for a good death. Yet there is a relativ...
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18Chips and Showmanship: Running and TechnologyPhilosophies 4 (2): 30. 2019.A brief review and classification of technology in general begins the paper, followed by an application of the classification to two specific marathon case studies: the 2018 Boston marathon and the 2017 Nike Breaking2 Project marathon. Then concepts from an array of sport philosophers are discussed to suggest an explanation for why each of the case studies strikes us as problematic. The conclusion provides a reasonable explanation for our misgivings, as well as an indication of how we might eval…Read more
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26Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines (edited book)Lexington Books. 2016.This book examines influential conceptions of sport and then analyses the interplay of challenging borderline cases with the standard definitions of sport. It is meant to inspire more thought and debate on just what sport is, how it relates to other activities and human endeavors, and what we can learn about ourselves by studying sport.
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41Performance-Enhancing Drugs and Moral Line DrawingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (6): 16-17. 2018.
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2In Vitro Fertilization: Autonomy and PolicyDissertation, University of Georgia. 1996.The development of in vitro fertilization has ignited fresh controversy regarding the concept of autonomy. Some authors claim that the technique offers opportunity for initiative, action and autonomy traditionally denied women. Other authors condemn the technologies, claiming that support of them only perpetuates the essentialist definition of woman as reproducer, thus, in practice, reduces the autonomy of women. This dissertation is an attempt to make sense of the fact that two groups, who shar…Read more
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91Personal Foul: an evaluation of the moral status of footballJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 42 (2): 269-286. 2015.The popularity and profitability of American gridiron football is beyond dispute. Recent polls put football as the overwhelming favorite of people who follow at least one sport and huge revenues are reported at both the professional and the university level. We know, however, that what is the case tells us little about what ought to be the case, and it is to the latter question that this paper is directed. I offer a three-pronged attack on the ethical acceptability of American football, both ama…Read more
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35Not Forgetting Sex: Simon on Gender EqualityJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 43 (1): 75-82. 2016.
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46Gender Roles RollSport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (2): 245-258. 2013.Roller derby, once known for scripted theatricality that made it more like a stage play than a sport, has reinvented itself as a legitimate athletic endeavour. Since its rebirth as the Women's Flat Track Derby Association in the early 2000s, it has experienced exponential growth, from 30 flat track derby leagues in 2005 to more than 450 leagues in 2010. This translates to more than 15,000 skaters worldwide. Roller derby provides a unique case of a women's sport that is not derived from, or a dim…Read more
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46Racers, Pacers, Gender and Records: On the Meaning of Sport Competition and CompetitorsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (2): 172-190. 2014.This paper examines footraces that are paced and unpaced, and runners who are pre-arranged, designated pacers and those who are not. Although pacesetting is commonplace in footraces today, the practice challenges our conception of sport competition, the nature of competitors and the meaning of records. For example, Bale calls paced races as ‘staged experiments’ to set world records and argues that pacers were crucial in the running career of Roger Bannister. In 2011, the International Associatio…Read more
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46Mercy Killing: Sportsmanship and BlowoutsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 37 (1): 60-68. 2010.No abstract
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12Comments on William Garland’s “Can Care Generate Global Moral Concern?”Southwest Philosophy Review 17 (2): 147-150. 2001.
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22Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: A Critical Analysis of PacingJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 42 (3): 349-363. 2015.Pacing, a phenomenon whereby seasoned runners assist other runners toward pre-determined goal times in races of various lengths, is a common practice, yet it has received very little sustained philosophical scrutiny. This paper aims to take steps in that direction with a particular focus on pacing in amateur distance running. We begin with Peter Arnold’s analysis of the three views of sportsmanship – as a form of social union, as a means in the promotion of pleasure, and as a form of altruism – …Read more
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41Prescription for “Sports Medicine and Ethics”American Journal of Bioethics 13 (10). 2013.No abstract
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12Kathi Weeks, Constituting Feminist Subjects Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (4): 241-244. 1999.
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59Are runners obsessive/compulsive, narcissistic masochists?The Philosophers' Magazine 58 95-100. 2012.
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48More Than a Pair of Shoes: Running and TechnologyJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 36 (2): 207-216. 2009.No abstract
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45Core Workout: A Feminist Critique of Definitions, Hyperfemininity, and the Medicalization of FitnessInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (2): 46-66. 2016.“Look Great Naked!” “Sexy Legs Now!” “Score a Perfect 10 Body!” These invitations appear regularly on the covers of glossy fitness magazines, always beside a photograph of a too-perfect-not-to-be-airbrushed, generally scantily clad, young woman. Are they really invitations or are they imperatives? What should we make of the apparently presumed connection between fitness and sex? These are the questions that drive this article, in which we distinguish between fitness and sport and provide a femin…Read more
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57Don’t bring it on: the case against cheerleading as a collegiate sportJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 40 (2): 255-277. 2013.The 2010 Quinnipiac cheerleading case raises interesting questions about the nature of both cheerleading and sport, as well as about the moral character of each. In this paper we explore some of those questions, and argue that no form of college cheerleading currently in existence deserves, from a moral point of view, to be recognized as a sport for Title IX purposes. To reach that conclusion, we evaluate cheerleading using a quasi-legal argument based on the NCAA’s definition of sport and concl…Read more
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8Are runners obsessive/compulsive, narcissistic masochists?The Philosophers' Magazine 58 95-100. 2012.
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