The essays in this book examine philosophical issues that are conceptual and ethical in nature and further examine ethical issues in sports, such as sportsmanship, violence, cheating, drug use, racism, sexism and gender equity.
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ISBN:9780631216971
ISBN:0631216979
ISBN:9780631216964
ISBN:0631216960
Physical Description:xx, 351 pages ; 25 cm print
Publisher:[Malden, Mass.] :Blackwell Pub.,2003.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Sports, relativism, and moral education / Robert L. Simon -- Why everyone deserves a sporting chance: education, jsutice, and school sports / Janice Moulton -- Moral development and sport: character and cognitive developmentalism contrasted / Carwyn Jones and Mike McNamee -- Philosopher in the playground: notes on the meaning of sport / Peter Heinegg -- Foul play: sports metaphors as public doublespeak / Francine Hardaway -- Sportsmanship as a moral category / James W. Keating -- Three approaches toward an understanding of sportsmanship / Peter J. Arnold -- Deception, sportsmanship, and ethics / Kathleen M. Pearson -- on sportsmanship and "running up the score" / Nicholas Dixon -- Sportsmanship and blowouts: baseball and beyond / Randolph M. Feezell -- The ethics of competition / Jan Boxill -- On Winning and athletic superiority / Nicholas Dixon -- In defense of winning / R. Scott Kretchmar -- Winding down, looking ahead / Dean Smith -- Personal best / W.M. Brown -- Fair play as respect for the game -- Robert Butcher and Angela Schneider -- Good competition and drug-enhanced performance / Robert L. Simon -- Enhancing performance in sports: what is morally permissible? / Laura Morgan -- Sports and drugs: are the current bans justified? / Michael Lavin -- What is sports violence? / Michael Smith -- Values and violence in sports today: the moral reasoning athletes use in their games and in their lives / Brenda Jo Bredemeier, David L. Shields, and Jack C. Horn -- Violence and sports / Robert E. Leach -- Sex equality in sports / Jane English -- Human equalty in sports / Peter S. Wenz -- Gender equity and inequity in athletics / Robert L. Simon -- Title IX and gender equity / Jan Boxill -- Why women do better than men in college basketball, or "What is collegiate sport for, anyway?" / Nicholas Hunt-Bull -- Women, self-possession, and sport / Catharine MacKinnon -- Stronger women / Mariah Burton Nelson -- The sports closet / Liz Galst -- Racial differences in sports: what's ethics got to do with it? / Albert Mosley -- Race and college sport: a long way to go / Richard E. Lapchick -- Sport and stereotype: from role model to Muhammad Ali / Mike Marqusee -- Do celebrated athletes have special responsibilities to be good role models? An imagined dialog between Charles Barkley and Karl Malone / Christopher Wellman -- Get the message? / Rick Reilly.
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