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Author:   Graham McFee (University of Brighton, UK / California State University Fullerton, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138633599

ISBN 10:   1138633593
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   22 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Structure of the Work; and of its Project Part 1: Elements for a Positive Account of Understanding Sport 1. Making sense of sport: a positive account 2. The place of ‘practices’ Part 2: Prospects for a Philosophy of Sport 3. Philosophical issues in respect of sport 4. Making sense of philosophy of sport 5. Why Symbolising Arguments Cannot Offer Rigour to the Philosophy of Sport: A Worked Example 6. Future prospects for the philosophy of sport: Epistemology and aesthetics? Part 3: Rational Reconstruction and History: An Olympic Case Study 7. Amateurism in De Coubertin’s Olympism Part 4: Rules, Decisions and Officiating Chapter 8. A framework for understanding officiating in purposive sports Chapter 9. Officiating in aesthetic sports Epilogue: Retrospective

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"""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"

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

""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

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

Author Information

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).

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