Ethics in Sport, Fourth Edition, offers a total of 33 essays from influential authors. These essays provide readers with classic and contemporary views on ethical issues in today's sport culture.
The fourth edition of Ethics in Sport contains nine new essays that address the latest topics in the world of sport that have provoked widespread controversy. These issues concern, among other things, whether esports (electronic sports) are bona fide sports, whether gamesmanship is acceptable in sports competition, and whether transgender athletes who transition from male to female should be allowed to compete in sports reserved for women and under what conditions.
Each chapter begins with an introduction that encapsulates relevant ethical concepts and contextualizes the issues in the upcoming essay. Throughout the text, discussion questions prompt students to reflect on the information presented and to consider how ethical issues affect our society and their own lives. An instructor guide offers tools to facilitate these discussions as well as over 50 assignment recommendations.
With a wealth of new essays, Ethics in Sport, Fourth Edition, offers philosophical insights from the most influential minds in the study of ethics and keeps readers abreast of current issues.
By:
William J J. Morgan
Imprint: Human Kinetics
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Fourth Edition
Weight: 862g
ISBN: 9781718219731
ISBN 10: 1718219733
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 06 November 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Ethics, Ethical Inquiry, and Sport: An Introduction Part I: The Nature of Sport Chapter 1. The Elements of Sport Bernard Suits Chapter 2. Thoughts on the Nature of Sport (and the Philosophy of Sport) Graham McFee Chapter 3. E-Sports Are Not Sports J. Parry Chapter 4. Internalism and Internal Values in Sport Robert L. Simon Chapter 5. Broad Internalism and the Moral Foundations of Sport J.S. Russell Chapter 6. The Normativity of Sport: A Historicist Take on Broad Internalism William J. Morgan Part II: Competition and Fair Play: Considerations of Winning, Cheating, and Gamesmanship Chapter 7. Formalism Reconsidered Paul Gaffney Chapter 8. Competition as Cooperation C. Thi Nguyen Chapter 9. Sportsmanship as a Moral Category James W. Keating Chapter 10. Sportsmanship Randolph M. Feezell Chapter 11. On Winning and Athletic Superiority Nicholas Dixon Chapter 12. Success J. J. Valberg Chapter 13. Is There a Normatively Distinctive Conception of Cheating in Sport (or Anywhere Else)? J. S. Russell Chapter 14. Gamesmanship Leslie A. Howe Chapter 15. Gamesmanship as Strategic Excellence Josh Leota & Michael-John Turp Chapter 16. Moral Victories Paul Gaffney Chapter 17. What Counts as Part of a Game? A Look at Skills Cesar R. Torres Chapter 18. Intentional Rule Violations—One More Time Warren P. Fraleigh Chapter 19. The Ethics of Strategic Fouling: A Reply to Fraleigh Robert L. Simon Part III: Doping and Genetic Enhancement in Sport Chapter 20. Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport Ian Ritchie Chapter 21. Good Competition and Drug-Enhanced Performance Robert L. Simon Chapter 22. Paternalism, Drugs, and the Nature of Sports W.M. Brown Chapter 23. Ethics of Performance Enhancement in Sport: Drugs and Gene Doping Bennett Foddy and Julian Savulescu Chapter 24. The Case for Perfection W. Miller Brown Part IV: Gender and Sexual Equality in Sport Chapter 25. Sex Equality in Sports Jane English Chapter 26. The Genetic Design of a New Amazon Claudio Tamburrini and Torbjörn Tännsjö Chapter 27. What Is Gender Equality in Sports? Simona Giordano and John Harris Chapter 28. Safety, Fairness, and Inclusion: Transgender Athletes and the Essence of Rugby Jon Pike Chapter 29. Transgender Women in Sport Andria Bianchi Part V: Select Issues in the Social Ethics of Sport: Race, Spectatorship, and Politics Chapter 30. On the Particular Racism of Native American Mascots Erin C. Tarver Chapter 31. Is Our Admiration for Sports Heroes Fascistoid? Torbjörn Tännsjö Chapter 32. What’s Wrong With Admiring Athletes and Other People? Ingmar Persson Chapter 33. The Ethics of Supporting Sports Teams Nicholas Dixon
William J. Morgan, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the division of occupational science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and holds a courtesy appointment in the university’s School of Communication. He has served as editor and has published extensively in the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. He currently serves on the journal’s editorial review board. He has presented numerous papers on the topic of ethics in sport throughout the world and has written several books on the topic: Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory, Why Sports Morally Matter, and Leftist Theories of Sport: A Critique and Reconstruction. Dr. Morgan is former president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. In 1994, he received the association's Distinguished Scholar Award. In the same year, he was elected an active fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology.
