1st Edition
The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon
Introduction: Weighing In
Jason Holt and Marc Ramsay
1. Mixed Martial Arts is Not a Martial Art
Irena Martínková and Jim Parry
2. On the Martial Arts Status of Mixed Martial Arts: ‘There are no rules’
Nicholas R. Baima and Sarah Malanowski
3. Loyalty, Deference, and Exploitation in Traditional and Mixed Martial Arts
Audrey Yap and Chris Goto-Jones
4. Violence and Constraints in Combat Sport
Joseph D. Lewandowski
5. Experimentation, Distributed Cognition, and Flow: A Scientific Lens on Mixed Martial Arts
Zachary Agoff, Benjamin Gwerder, and Vadim Keyser
6: A Utility-based Aesthetic for MMA: Finding Beauty in the Cage
Tszki Chow
7. An Aesthetic Apology for MMA
Jason Holt
8. The Line of Permissibility: Gladiators, Boxers, and MMA Fighters
Marc Ramsay
9. Friendship as a Moral Defense of Mixed Martial Arts
Danny Rosenberg
10. MMA as a Path to Stoic Virtue
Michael Tremblay
11. Ethics of Mixed Martial Arts
Walter Veit and Heather Browning
12. Gender, Pain, and Risk in Women’s Mixed Martial Arts
Audrey Yap
13. Gender and Ethics: Thoughts on the Case of Transgender Athlete Fallon Fox
Nancy Kane
Biography
Jason Holt is Professor of Kinesiology at Acadia University, Canada, and author of Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport (2020).
Marc Ramsay is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Acadia University, Canada.
