Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

Michael J. McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics, and Director of the Research Institute for Ethics and Law, at Swansea University, Wales, UK. A former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, he has pioneered the field of Sports Ethics for the last quarter of a century. He is Program Director of the pan European Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sport Ethics and Integrity. His scholarship and consulting work ranges across engineering, medical, sports, and police ethics.

• Introduction: Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: A 10 Year Retrospective 1. Breakthrough victories: How can a loser ever win? 2. Games and Fiction: Partners in the Evolution of Culture 3. Strategic fouling and sport as play 4. Athletes as heroes and role models: an ancient model 5. Sport, Religion and Charisma 6. The exercise pill: should we replace exercise with pharmaceutical means? 7. Safe Danger – On the Experience of Challenge, Adventure and Risk in Education 8. Muscular Imaginings—A Phenomenological and Enactive Model for Imagination 9. An Alternative Solution to Lifting the Ban on Doping: Breaking the Payoff Matrix of Professional Sport by Shifting Liability Away from Athletes 10. The Governance of Sport 11. Inhibiting doping in sports: deterrence is necessary, but not sufficient