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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 ... -
Hvor moralsk tenker fotballspillere? – en empirisk studie av toppfotball.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Det er en utbredt oppfatning at det økende prestasjonskravet i toppfotball fører til en svekkelse av moral og fair play-holdninger. Men hvordan tenker toppfotballspillere i forhold til ulike dilemmaer som oppstår på banen, ... -
In the synaptic cleft: caught in the gap between neurotransmitter release and conscious experience in sport
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)I’d like to say that in his article Visual Experience and Motor Action: Are the Bonds Too Tight?, Andy Clark (2001) writes an almost perfect introduction to what this thesis is all about. Here, Clark uses contemporary ... -
Konversive gangvansker: Behandlingseffekt og typiske trekk
(Doctoral thesis, 2012)Avhandlingen omhandler identifikasjon og behandling av konversive gangvansker, definert som tap av gangfunksjon uten påviselig kroppslig årsak. Den består av en sammenfatning og tre artikler. Sammenfatningen inneholder ... -
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 ... -
Philosophical perfectionism: consequences and implications for sport
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-03-11)Ethical theories in sport philosophy tend to focus on interpersonal relations. Little has been said about sport as part of the good life and as experienced from within. This article tries to remedy this by discussing a ... -
Relations of meaning : A phenomenologically oriented case study of learning bodies in a rehabilitation context
(Doctoral thesis, 2009)This dissertation investigates the learning that takes place between participants in a rehabilitation setting. More specifically, I have made use of the phenomenological philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1963; 1968; ... -
Soldiers´ reach for optimized performance
(Doctoral thesis, 2011)This dissertation is concerned with the challenge of better understanding how soldiers develop skillfulness needed to deal with the various challenges they face in their life-worlds, as soldiers. The study bears on ... -
Sport and popular movements : towards a philosophy of moving people
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-08)The article discusses sports movement in Nordic sports and examines how the characteristics of these sports within the different dimensions of sports movement are connected. Movement is said to have three human dimensions, ... -
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 ...