Introduction: Sport and Species
S.P. Morris and Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet
1. Ethical Justifications for the Use of Animals in Competitive Sport
Madeleine L.H. Campbell
2. Hunting, the Duty to Aid, and Wild Animal Ethics
S.P. Morris
3. A ‘Game’ Bird? On Why Hunting is Not a Game and Thus Not a Sport
Rebekah Humphreys
4. Self-affirmation in Sled Dogs? Affordances, Perceptual Agency, and Extreme Sport
Eric Gilbertson and Bob Fischer
5. Horses as Players in Equine Sports
Jason Holt
6. Dogs and Tigers and Fish, Oh My! Sporting Captivity
Elizabeth Foreman and Pam R. Sailors
Biography
S.P. Morris is a Clinical Professor of Sport Leadership & Management at Miami University in Oxford, USA. His teaching and scholarship focuses on ethics, generally, and ethics in sports in particular. His scholarship focuses mostly on the use and abuse of animals in and for sport but he has written on broader philosophical topics as well.
Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. Her teaching and research focus on applied ethics within the realm of health and sport. Of late, she has been working on the morally problematic activity of “sport” hunting and animals’ inherent vulnerability.
