This substantially revised text provides the most comprehensive philosophical work available about the nature, structure, meaning, and significance of sport, play, and games. Philosophic Inquiry in Sport (Second Edition) encompasses the major�and sometimes controversial�issues in sport philosophy and provides a balance of analytical and critical essays reflecting a broad range of philosophical perspectives.

This second edition features:
-22 new articles by leading sport philosophers,
-32 influential and classic essays from the first edition,
-expanded coverage of current topics, such as drugs and gender equity issues, and how each relates to sport, and
-a new part devoted to the morality of hunting and animal liberation.

The second edition also features reader's guides and part summaries designed to make this book much more than a useful reference. The reader's guides at the beginning of most parts provide overviews and address key points and arguments of each essay. Instructors can use these guides to select chapters geared to the specific interests and abilities of their students. Detailed summaries at the end of each part explain the central arguments of the essays and their commonalties and differences. The result is an excellent text for survey classes and special topics courses.

Philosophic Inquiry in Sport (Second Edition) attains a level of sophistication and substance that makes it a valuable reference not only for sport philosophers but also for every person who wishes to examine the significance of sport and the serious issues associated with it in our society. Instructors who want their students to achieve a deeper understanding of sport philosophy will find that the teacher-friendly structure makes this an excellent text for upper division undergraduate classes and graduate classes. Both professionals and students will find this book to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date text available on sport philosophy.

Preface


Section One: Ontological Frameworks
Part I: The Nature of Play, Sport, and Games

Part I Reader's Guide

Chapter 1. The Nature of Play, Johan Huizinga
Chapter 2. The Elements of Sport, Bernard Suits
Chapter 3. Tricky Triad: Games, Play, and Sport, Bernard Suits
Chapter 4. Triad Trickery: Playing With Sport and Games, Klaus V. Meier
Chapter 5. From Test to Contest: An Analysis of Two Kinds of Counterpoint in Sport, R. Scott Kretchmar
Chapter 6. The Ethos of Games, Fred D'Agostino
Chapter 7. The Logical Incompatibility Thesis and Rules: A Reconsideration of Formalism as an Account of Games, William J. Morgan
Part I Summary

Part II: Embodiment and Sport

Part II Reader's Guide
Chapter 8. The Separation of Body and Soul, Plato
Chapter 9. The Real Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man, René Descartes
Chapter 10. Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views, Elizabeth V. Spelman
Chapter 11. The Body, Jean-Paul Sartre
Chapter 12. If I Am My Body, Gabriel Marcel
Chapter 13. Embodiment, Sport, and Meaning, Klaus V. Meier
Part II Summary

Part III: Play, Sport, and Metaphysics

Part III Reader's Guide
Chapter 14. The Ontology of Play, Eugen Fink
Chapter 15. Play and Sport, Jean-Paul Sartre
Chapter 16. Play and Possibility, Joseph L. Esposito
Chapter 17. An Affair of Flutes: An Appreciation of Play, Klaus V. Meier
Part III Summary

Section Two: Axiological Frameworks

Parts IV-VII: Sport and Ethics

Parts IV-VII Reader's Guide

Part IV: Fair Play, Sportsmanship, and Cheating

Chapter 18. Sportsmanship as a Moral Category, James W. Keating
Chapter 19. Sportsmanship, Randolph M. Feezell
Chapter 20. Three Approaches Toward an Understanding of Sportsmanship, Peter J. Arnold
Chapter 21. On Sportsmanship and "Running Up the Score," Nicholas Dixon
Chapter 22. Opponents, Contestants, and Competitors: The Dialectic of Sport, Drew A. Hyland
Chapter 23. Deception, Sportsmanship, and Ethics, Kathleen M. Pearson
Chapter 24. Why the Good Foul Is Not Good, Warren Fraleigh
Chapter 25. Some Reflections on Success and Failure in Competitive Athletics, Edwin J. Delattre
Chapter 26. Cheating and Fair Play in Sport, Oliver Leaman
Part IV Summary

Part V: Drugs and Sport

Chapter 27. Sport and the Technological Image of Man, John M. Hoberman
Chapter 28. Good Competition and Drug-Enhanced Performance, Robert L. Simon
Chapter 29. Paternalism, Drugs, and the Nature of Sports, W.M. Brown
Chapter 30. On Performance-Enhancing Substances and the Unfair Advantage Argument, Roger Gardner
Chapter 31. Sports and Drugs: Are the Current Bans Justified?, Michael Lavin
Chapter 32. Practices and Prudence, W. Miller Brown
Chapter 33. Blood Doping and Athletic Competition, Clifton Perry
Chapter 34. Privacy and the Urinalysis Testing of Athletes, Paul B. Thompson
Part V Summary

Part VI: Gender Issues and Sport

Chapter 35. The Exclusion of Women From Sport: Conceptual and Existential Dimensions, Iris Marion Young
Chapter 36. The Politics of Women's Body Images and Practices: Foucault, the Panopticon, and Shape Magazine, Margaret Carlisle Duncan
Chapter 37. Sports and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain, Michael A. Messner
Chapter 38. Sex Equality in Sports, Jane English
Chapter 39. Women, Sex, and Sports, Raymond A. Belliotti
Chapter 40. Gender Equity and Inequity in Athletics, Robert L. Simon
Chapter 41. Title IX: Equality for Women's Sports?, Leslie P. Francis
Chapter 42. Human Equality in Sports, Peter S. Wenz
Chapter 43. Women and Masculine Sports, B.C. Postow
Part VI Summary

Part VII: The Morality of Hunting and Animal Liberation

Chapter 44. The Ethics of Hunting, J. Ortega y Gasset
Chapter 45. Animal Liberation, Peter Singer
Chapter 46. Why Hunting and Trapping Are Wrong, Tom Regan
Chapter 47. Existence, Breeding, and Rights: The Use of Animals in Sports, Donald Scherer
Chapter 48. Environmental Ethics and the Case Against Hunting, Roger J.H. King
Part VII Summary

Part VIII: Sport, Aesthetics, and Art

Part VIII Reader's Guide
Chapter 49. The Aesthetic in Sport, David Best
Chapter 50. Sport�The Body Electric, Joseph H. Kupfer
Chapter 51. Grace and Functionality, C.D. Cordner
Chapter 52. Sport, Art, and Particularity: The Best Equivocation, Terence J. Roberts
Chapter 53. Differences Between Sport and Art, Christopher Cordner
Chapter 54. The Making and Remaking of Sport Actions, Terence J. Roberts

Part VIII Summary