Tag: Pam R. Sailors

In Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport (Routledge), edited by Miroslav Imbrišević, a number of contributions discuss the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport. We asked Westminster Law School Professor Guy Osborn for a review, and his reading of this timely collection gave rise to interesting reflections about the emerging area of jurisprudence of sport where law and philosophy intervenes in a field of human activity governed by rules – sport – that offers scholars a wide range of areas for intervention.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games): Past, Present, and Future by Max D. López Toledano.

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 overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport by Angela J. Schneider & Guanpeng Zhou.

Progressive and broad-ranging, The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity edited by Győző Molnár and Rachael Bullingham, offers a comprehensive overview of the complex intersections between politics, gender, sport and physical activity. In her thorough, competent and highly useful review of this 32 chapters anthology, Anna Sätre highlights the underlying aims of the collection, some detectable trends among the contributions, and several of the chapters that stand out for their critical and innovative approaches.

In The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners (Oxford UP), philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little looks at the key ideas of virtue ethics and brings them into conversation with her experience of training and racing. Unfortunately, writes Pam R. Sailors, the author leaves 50 years of philosophy of sports writing out of that conversation. Philosophical thinking develops in the interaction of thinkers, old and new, but this process is conspicuously and sadly missing from Little’s book.

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: The ethics of pigeon racing by Jan Deckers & Silvina Pezzetta (open access).

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: Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art b y Gunnar Karlsen (open access).

Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium by Bernard Suits with editors Christopher C. Yorke and Francisco Javier López Frías (Routledge) is published in its full and unabridged form for the first time, 16 years after Suits’ death. Pam R. Sailors has read the book on our behalf, and she lauds editors Yorke and Frias for bringing Suits’ final effort to publication. She also congratulates sport scholars everywhere for getting a second grasshopper in their library. The book is, quite simply, a must-read.

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: Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity by Irena Martínková, Taryn Knox, Lynley Anderson & Jim Parry.

Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness: A Lively Entanglement by Holly Thorpe, Julie Brice & Marianne Clark (Palgrave Macmillan) offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture. We asked Pam R. Sailors, Professor of Philosophy at Missouri State University to read it, and her review bears witness to the complexities dealt with in the book; still, she writes, a good addition to discussions in the area.