Browsing Brage NIH by Author "Breivik, Gunnar"
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Academic versus Sporting Knowledge. Robert L. Simon and the Debate about Sports on Campus
Breivik, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11)Robert L. Simon is a sport philosopher with many interests. He is not only interested in advanced theoretical matters but in seemingly mundane affairs, such as the question about the role of sports on campus. The question ... -
Attitudes towards use of performance-enhancing substances and body modification techniques : a comparison between elite athletes and the general population
Breivik, Gunnar; Hanstad, Dag Vidar; Loland, Sigmund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-08)Medical and technological developments open up new possibilities for modifying the body and enhancing performance in various areas of life. This study compares attitudes among Norwegian elite athletes (n ¼ 234) with ... -
Being, having and belonging: values and ways of engaging in sport
Aggerholm, Kenneth; Breivik, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article presents an analytical framework for understanding and studying the value structures that govern participation in sport. We combine insights from a Norwegian Monitor survey with existential philosophical ... -
Being-in-the-void : a Heideggerian analysis of skydiving
Breivik, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-05)Philosophy of sport as a field of study brings philosophy and sport together. This can be done in various ways. What I do in this article may seem like a daring project. I let Heidegger, one of the great thinkers of the ... -
Bodily movement : the fundamental dimensions
Breivik, Gunnar (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 ... -
Dangerous play with the elements: towards a phenomenology of risk sports
Breivik, Gunnar (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 ... -
Fra egoisme til sjenerøsitet: kan toppidretten reformeres?
Breivik, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-06)Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i den norske idrettsmodellen der topp og bredde hører sammen, og der toppidrettsutøvere uvegerlig blir rollemodeller for barn og unge. Den moderne toppidretten er i økende grad preget av ... -
From ‘philosophy of sport’ to ‘philosophies of sports’? History, identity and diversification of sport philosophy
Breivik, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)My goal in this article is to give a portrait of how modern sport philosophy, which started in 1972, developed from relatively narrow paradigmatic borders to become a diverse and multi-paradigmatic international discipline. ... -
Hvor moralsk tenker fotballspillere? – en empirisk studie av toppfotball.
Ødegård, Lars Tore; Breivik, Gunnar (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, ... -
Idrett og etikk : en oversikt over hovedtemaer i den idrettsfilosofiske diskusjon 1980-2007
Breivik, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-03)Sport has become important in modern societies, both mass sport as well as elite sport. Especially elite sport raises ethical dilemmas that reach far beyond sport. The most thorough scholarly discussion of sport ethics ... -
Intentionality and Action in Sport: A Discussion of the Views of Searle and Dreyfus
Breivik, Gunnar (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 ... -
More active and less fit: changes in physical activity in the adult Norwegian population from 1985 to 2011
Breivik, Gunnar; Hellevik, Ottar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-05)The article describes central aspects of the development of physical activity during leisure time of Norwegian adults, 15 years and above, for the period 1985–2011. The data in the article are from the Norwegian Monitor, ... -
Performance orientation and injury among military cadets: the mediating role of disinhibition
Breivik, Gunnar; Buch, Robert; Säfvenbom, Reidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-01-30)This study examined the mediating role of disinhibition (sensation seeking) on the positive association between performance goal orientation (achievement motivation) and risk of sustaining injury. Our study comprised 248 ... -
Personality and willingness towards performance enhancement and body modification: A cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of Norwegians
Breivik, Gunnar; Sagoe, Dominic; Loland, Sigmund (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We conducted an exploratory investigation of the relationship between personality and willingness towards performance enhancement and body modification in Norway. The study is based on Norwegian Monitor data from a ... -
Philosophical perfectionism: consequences and implications for sport
Breivik, Gunnar (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 ... -
Philosophy of sport in the Nordic countries
Breivik, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-10)n 1972 I attended the Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress in Munich. For the first time science and sport were brought together in connection with the Olympic Games. The organizers presented a book Sport in Blickpunkt der ... -
‘Richness in ends, simpleness in means!’ on Arne Naess’s version of deep ecological friluftsliv and its implications for outdoor activities
Breivik, Gunnar (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 ... -
Risk-taking and sensation seeking in military contexts: A literature review
Breivik, Gunnar; Sand, Trond Svela; Sookermany, Anders McDonald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The article is based on a literature review of studies covering risk-taking and sensation seeking within military contexts over a time span of 3 decades from 1983 to 2015. Literature was gathered through a four-stage search ... -
Risk-taking attitudes and behaviors in the Norwegian population: the influence of personality and background factors
Breivik, Gunnar; Sand, Trond Svela; Sookermany, Anders McDonald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The article presents the results of an investigation where the main purpose was to see how willingness to take risks is distributed in the general adult population relative to socio-demographic background and personality. ... -
Searle, Merleau-Ponty, Rizzolatti – three perspectives on Intentionality and action in sport
Breivik, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Actions in sport are intentional in character. They are directed at and are about something. This understanding of intentional action is common in continental as well as analytic philosophy. In sport philosophy, intentionality ...