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Book SynopsisEthics in Sport, Third Edition, offers 32 essays by well-known authors. These essays explore the roots of the ethical and moral dilemmas so prevalent in sport culture today. Nearly half the essays are new to this edition.
Table of ContentsPart 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. Internalism and Internal Values in Sport
Robert L. Simon
Chapter 4. Broad Internalism and the Moral Foundations of Sport
J.S. Russell
Chapter 5. 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 6. Sportsmanship as a Moral Category
James W. Keating
Chapter 7. Sportsmanship
Randolph M. Feezell
Chapter 8. On Winning and Athletic Superiority
Nicholas Dixon
Chapter 9. Cheating and Fair Play in Sport
Oliver Leaman
Chapter 10. In Defense of Maradona’s Hand of God
Steffen Borge
Chapter 11. Gamesmanship
Leslie A. Howe
Chapter 12. Moral Victories
Paul Gaffney
Chapter 13. Play and the Moral Limits of Sport
J.S. Russell
Chapter 14. What Counts as Part of a Game? A Look at Skills
Cesar R. Torres
Chapter 15. Intentional Rule Violations—One More Time
Warren P. Fraleigh
Chapter 16. The Ethics of Strategic Fouling: A Reply to Fraleigh
Robert L. Simon
Part III. The Limits of Being Human: Doping and Genetic Enhancement in Sport
Chapter 17. Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sports
Ian Ritchie
Chapter 18. Ethics of Technology in Sport
Sigmund Loland
Chapter 19. Good Competition and Drug-Enhanced Performance
Robert L. Simon
Chapter 20. Paternalism, Drugs, and the Nature of Sports
W.M. Brown
Chapter 21. Ethics of Performance Enhancement in Sport: Drugs and Gene Doping
Bennett Foddy and Julian Savulescu
Chapter 22. Doping, “Mechanical Doping,” and Local Essentialism in the Individuation of Sports
Jon Pike
Chapter 23. The Case for Perfection
W. Miller Brown
Part IV. Gender and Sexual Equality in Sport
Chapter 24. Sex Equality in Sports
Jane English
Chapter 25. Mixed Competition and Mixed Messages
Pam R. Sailors
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
Part V. Select Issues in the Social Ethics of Sport: Race, Spectatorship, and Politics
Chapter 28. Sports, Political Philosophy, and the African American
Gerald Early
Chapter 29. Is Our Admiration of Sports Heroes Fascistoid?
Torbjörn Tännsjö
Chapter 30. What’s Wrong With Admiring Athletes and Other People?
Ingmar Persson
Chapter 31. The Ethics of Supporting Sports Teams
Nicholas Dixon
Chapter 32. Not Crickets? Ethics, Rhetoric and Sporting Boycotts
Edmund Dain and Gideon Calder
