Blar i Brage NIH på tidsskrift "Sport, Ethics and Philosophy"
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A well balanced life based on ‘the joy of effort’: Olympic hype or a meaningful ideal?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-05-10)A key goal in the Olympic value system of Olympism is the all-round cultivation of the individual. According to its so-called ‘fundamental principles’, Olympism is a ‘philosophy of life’ with ideals of ‘exalting and combining ... -
Bodily movement : the fundamental dimensions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-12)Bodily movement has become an interesting topic in recent philosophy, both in analytic and phenomenological versions. Philosophy from Descartes to Kant defined the human being as a mental subject in a material body. This ... -
Celebrating the insecure practitioner. A critique of evidence-based practice in adapted physical activity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08)Over the past decade there has been a trend within adapted physical activity (APA) to question the hegemony of the medical understanding of disability. This debate has consequences for professional practice, which some ... -
Dangerous play with the elements: towards a phenomenology of risk sports
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-10-11)The purpose of this article is to present a phenomenological description of how athletes in specific risk sports explore human interaction with natural elements. Skydivers play with, and surf on, the encountering air while ... -
Ethical aspects in research in adapted physical activity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08)This paper discusses some of the ethical aspects in research in adapted Physical Activity (APA). It indicates some of the ethical challenges related to the choice of research problemto be investigated, and the treatment ... -
‘Fair play’ as a larger loyalty: The case of anti-doping
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper explores a redescription of ‘fair play’ as loyalty. Focusing on the context of elite sport and the case of anti-doping, the paper develops an adaptation of Richard Rorty’s call to dispense with the opposition ... -
Habits, skills and embodied experiences: a contribution to philosophy of physical education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)One of the main topics in philosophical work dealing with physical education is if and how the subject can justify its educational value. Acquisition of practical knowledge in the form of skills and the provision of positive ... -
Having the last laugh: The value of humour in invasion games
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-08-08)This paper provides an existential analysis of humour as a social virtue in invasion games at the elite sport level. The main argument is that humour in this particular context can be valuable both in the competitive social ... -
Intentionality and Action in Sport: A Discussion of the Views of Searle and Dreyfus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The article looks at sport as a form of human action where the participants display various forms of Intentionality. Intentionality may be defined as ‘that property of many mental states and events by which they are directed ... -
Merleau-Ponty meets Kretchmar: Sweet tensions of embodied learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-10-11)The last decades have seen a rising philosophical interest in the phenomenology of skill acquisition. One central topic in this work is the relation between the athlete's background capacities and foreground attention as ... -
Morgan, the ‘Gratuitous’ Logic of Sport, and the Art of Self-Imposed Constraints
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Sport occupies a significant role in modern society and has a wide following. In his Leftist Theories of Sport (LTS), Morgan examines what he considers to be a degradation of modern sport and the lack of proper critical ... -
‘Richness in ends, simpleness in means!’ on Arne Naess’s version of deep ecological friluftsliv and its implications for outdoor activities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The increasing global warming and the loss of biodiversity should concern us all. Some feel that outdoor activities, which take place in natural surroundings, should have a special obligation to change. In this article I ... -
The Sporting Exploration of the World: Toward a Fundamental Ontology of the Sporting Human Being
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)My perspective in this paper is to look at sport and other physical activities as a way of exploring and experimenting with the environing world. The human being is basically the homo movens – born to move. Furthermore, ... -
The Confession Dilemma: Doping, Lying, and Narrative Identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Despite the commonly held view that confessing to doping is morally right, few former elite athletes who have doped confess to doping. In this paper, I ask whether elite athletes who have doped are morally obliged to ... -
The exercise pill: should we replace exercise with pharmaceutical means?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)New physiological and pharmacological research points to the possibility of a pill that produces the complete physiological effects of exercise. Is replacement of exercise with a pill a good idea? And if so, under what ... -
The inner game of sport: is everything in the brain?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-12)The article deals with the following: (1) Three brain imaging studies on athletes are evaluated. What do these neuroscientific studies tell us about the brain and mind of the athlete? (2) Empirical investigations will need ... -
The role of skill in sport
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Skill is obviously a central part of sports and should therefore be central in sport philosophic studies. My aim in this paper is to try to place skill in a wider context and thus give skill the place it deserves. I will ...