1st Edition
Sport, Rules and Values Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport
By Graham McFee
Copyright 2004
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sport, Rules and Values presents a philosophical perspective on issues concerning the character of sport. Discussion focuses on three broad uses commonly urged for rules: to define sport; to judge or assess sport performance; and to characterize the value of sport - especially if that value is regarded as moral value. In general, Sport, Rules and Values rejects a conception of the determinacy... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
