Graham Mcfee

Sport, Rules and Values (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport

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Produktbeschreibung

"Sport, Rules and Values" presents a philosophical perspective on some issues concerning the character of sport. Central questions for the text are motivated from real life sporting examples as described in newspaper reports. For instance, the (supposed) subjectivity of umpiring decisions is explored via an examination of the judging ice-skating at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games of 2002. Throughout, the presentation is rich in concrete cases from sporting situations, including baseball, football, and soccer. While granting the constitutive nature of the rules of sport, discussion focuses on three broad uses commonly urged for rules: in defining sport; in judging or assessing sport (as deployed by judges or umpires); and in characterizing the value of sport, especially if that value is regarded as moral value. In general, McFee rejects a conception of the determinacy of rules as possible within sport, and a parallel picture of the determinacy assumed to be required by philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134330164
• Artikelnr.: 38251193

Autorenporträt

Graham McFee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Brighton; and Vice President of the British Society of Aesthetics. He has written and presented extensively, both nationally and internationally, on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and on aesthetics, especially the aesthetics of dance.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sport, rules and values PART ONE: Rules in Explaining Sport
1. Definiteness and defining sport 2. Rule-following and formalism in sport
3. Rule-following and rule-formulations 4. Practices and normativity in
sport PART TWO: Rules in Judging Sport 5. Aesthetic sports, publicity and
judgement-calls 6. Principles and the application of rules 7. Spoiling,
cheating and playing the game PART THREE: Rules in Valuing Sport 8. The
project of a 'moral laboratory'; and particularism 9. The value of sport
10. Relativism, objectivity and truth Conclusion: Sport, rules and
philosophy.