On Sport and the Philosophy of Sport: A Wittgensteinian Approach (Ethics and Sport) - Hardcover

McFee, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138907863 ISBN 13: 9781138907867

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

What is the ‘philosophy of sport’? What does one do to count as a practitioner in the philosophy of sport? What conception of philosophy underpins the answer to those questions? In this important new book, leading sport philosopher Graham McFee draws on a lifetime’s philosophical inquiry to reconceptualise the field of study. The book covers important topics such as Olympism, the symbolisation of argument, and epistemology and aesthetics in sport research; and concludes with a section of ‘applied’ sport philosophy by looking at rules and officiating.

Using a Wittgensteinian framework, and employing a rich array of sporting examples throughout, McFee challenges the assumptions of traditional analytic philosophy regarding the completeness required of concepts and the exceptionlessness required of philosophical claims, providing the reader with a new set of tools with which to approach this challenging subject. On Sport and the Philosophy of Sport is fascinating and important reading for any serious students or researchers of sport philosophy.

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Review:

"McFee’s book is thought-provoking, interesting, and well argued... He has important insights and arguments that should be debated, and opposed, by sports philosophers in the near future. Otherwise philosophy of sport may be dead."― Gunnar Breivik, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, www.idrottsforum.org

About the Author:

Graham McFee is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Brighton University, UK, and is part of the Philosophy Department at California State University, Fullerton, USA. His research and lecturing interests include the aesthetics of dance and the philosophy of Wittgenstein. His publications include Sport, Rules and Values (2004), Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sport Research (2010) and The Philosophical Aesthetics of Dance (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138907863
• ISBN 13: 9781138907867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234