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Sex Verification in Female Sport

When the IOC recently announced its new policy about eligibility in the female category (no male physiological advantage permitted), there was push-back from supporters of the previous, all-inclusive, IOC policy (the Framework Document from 2021). According to Jon Pike and Miroslav Imbrišević their arguments don’t stand up to scrutiny, as they claim to have shown in their previous essay “The Ethics of Sex Verification”. They decided to expand their rebuttal and invite colleagues from other disciplines to help with scrutinizing arguments that oppose the IOC policy.

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Volume 50, 2023, Issue 1

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: by Sinclair A. MacRae.

When Ideology Trumps Science: A response to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport’s Review on Transwomen Athletes in the Female Category

A group of scientists and humanities scholars has written an expert commentary about the recently published ‘Scientific Review’ by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport about transwomen’s participation in female sport. The CCES Review, claim the authors, doesn’t deserve its name; it is wholly unscientific, another attempt to replace materially based eligibility criteria in sport with ‘social identity’ as a passport to inclusion, and they highlight its shortcomings in methodology, and its sometimes incoherent, sometimes misleading argumentation.

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Volume 48, 2021, Issue 3 | Games: Agency as Art, by C. Thi Nguyen

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The opacity of play: a reply to commentators by C. Thi Nguyen.

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Volume 48, 2021, Issue 2

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A critical note on sporting supererogation by Steffen Borge (open access).

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Volume 14, 2020, Issue 2

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: PRENATAL PARANOIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUMPY LANDSCAPE FOR THE PREGNANT ATHLETE by Charlene Weaving.

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Volume 46, 2019, Issue 1

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. Special Section: Sport, Narrative, and Drama.

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Volume 45, 2018, Issue 1

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. Special Section: Sport, Narrative, and Drama.