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Morgan, W. J. and Meier, K. V. (eds) (1995) Philosophic Inquiry in Sport, second edition, Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics

The second edition of Morgan and Meier's Philosophic Inquiry in Sport have long been the classic anthology of work in the philosophy of sport. This second edition contains some of the same material as the first, but is significantly different from the original edition. The second edition is divided into two parts (Ontological Frameworks and Axiological Frameworks). The first part contains three sections (The Nature of Play, Sport and Games; Embodiment and Sport; and Play, Sport and Metaphysics). The second part contains five sections (Fair Play, Sportsmanship and Cheating; Drugs and Sport; Gender Issues and Sport; The Morality of Hunting and Animal Liberation; and Sport, Aesthetics and Art. In total the second edition contains fifty-four chapters.

Part IV Fair Play, Sportsmanship, and Cheating

18 Sportsmanship as a Moral Category / James W. Keating

19 Sportsmanship / Randolph M. Feezell

20 Three Approaches Toward an Understanding of Sportsmanship /Peter J. Arnold

21 On Sportsmanship and "Running Up the Score" / Nicholas Dixon

22 Opponents, Contestants, and Competitors: The Dialectic of Sport / Drew A. Hyland

23 Deception, Sportsmanship, and Ethics / Kathleen M. Pearson

24 Why the Good Foul Is Not Good / Warren Fraleigh

25 Some Reflections on Success and Failure in Competitive Athletics / Edwin J. Delattre

26 Cheating and Fair Play in Sport / Oliver Leaman

Morgan, W. J., Meier, K. V. and Schneider, A. J. (Eds) (2001) Ethics in Sport, Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics.

This collection is similar to Morgan and Meier (1995) in that it draws upon key articles from the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, but it focuses specifically on ethical topics rather than philosophy of sport as a whole. The book contains twenty-nine chapters divided into the following five parts:

Part I Fair play, being a good sport, and cheating: at what price victory?

Sportsmanship As a Moral Category / James W. Keating

Fair Play As Respect for the Game / Robert Butcher, Angela Schneider

On Winning and Athletic Superiority / Nicholas Dixon

Some Reflections on Success and Failure in Competitive Athletics / Edwin J. Delattre

Opponents, Contestants, and Competitors: The Dialectic of Sport / Drew A. Hyland

Cheating and Fair Play in Sport / Oliver Leaman

Part II The limits of being human: the case of performance-enhancing drugs

Part III Women in sport: gender equity and gender identity

Part IV Animals and their use in sport: where do we draw the moral line?

Part V The social ethics of sport: is sport good for society

Loland, S. (2002) Fair Play in Sport: A Moral Norm System, London: Routledge.

This book provides a comprehensive and sophisticated account of fair play in sport. It aims to provide a synthesis between traditional moral principles and their practical application in order to offer an understanding of the concept in modern sport. Topics covered within this book include the concepts of fairness, justice and equality, what constitutes ‘good' competition, and the value of sport as an activity in itself. It is divided into five chapters as follows:

1. Sport competitions: rules, goals, and social logic

2. A moral point of view

3. Right sport competitions: fairness

4. Good sport competitions: play

5. Fair play in sport competitions: a moral norm system

 

 

Feezell, R. (2004) Sport, Play and Ethical Reflection, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

This book is a contribution to the virtue ethics tradition of sports ethics. It is divided into two parts and ten chapters as follows:

Part One: Sport: Attraction and Paradox

1. Sport, Bodily Existence and Play

2. The Freedom of Play

3. Sport, the Aesthetic, and Narrative

4. Play and the Absurd

5. Sport and the View from Nowhere

Part Two: Sport and Ethics

6. Sportsmanship

7. On Cheating in Sports

8. Sportsmanship and Blowouts

9. Sport, Character and Virtue

10. Respect for the Game

McNamee, M. (2008) Sport, Virtues and Vices: Morality Plays. London: Routledge.

This book is underpinned by the central thesis that sports function as a modern version of a morality play and thus situates ethics at the very core of sports. It takes a virtue-ethics approach to understanding the role that sport plays in shaping us as ethical creatures and explores key issues such as, sport as the facilitator in building good character; a dispositional account of racism; an examination of humility, greed and envy; an analysis of doping in relation to virtue and vice; virtuous and vicious responses to suffering for sport; and a critical exploration of the challenges that biotechnology presents to elite athletes in their ethical development. It is divided into three parts and eleven chapters as follows:

Part One: Sports, persons and ethical sport

1. What is this thing called sport?

2. Sports, persons and sportspersonship

3. Sports as practices

4. Sport and ethical development

Part Two: Vicious and virtuous sport

5. Codes of conduct and trustworthy coaches

6. Racism, racist acts and courageous role modes

7. Hubris, humility and humiliation: vice and virtue in sporting communities

8. Schadenfreude in sports: envy, justice and self-esteem

Part Three: Sports ethics, medicine and technology

9. Suffering in and for sport

10. Doping: slippery slopes, pleonexia and shame

11. Whose Prometheus?: Transhumanism, biotechnology and the moral topography of sport medicine