tailieunhanh - Ebook Sport, Rules and Values: Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport (Part 1)

(BQ) Sport, Rules and Values presents a philosophical perspective on issues concerning the character of sport. Discussion focuses on three broad uses commonly urged for rules: to define sport; to judge or assess sport performance; and to characterize the value of sport - especially if that value is regarded as moral value. | Sport Rules and Values Philosophical investigations into the nature of sport Graham McFee 0 Routledge Taylor Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details Sport Rules and Values Sport Rules and Values presents a philosophical perspective on some issues concerning the character of sport. Central questions for the text are motivated from real life sporting examples as described in newspaper reports. For instance the supposed subjectivity of umpiring decisions is explored via an examination of the judging of ice-skating at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games of 2002. Throughout the presentation is rich in concrete cases from sporting situations including cricket baseball American football and soccer. While granting the constitutive nature of the rules of sport discussion focuses on three broad uses commonly urged for rules in defining sport in judging or assessing sport as deployed by judges or umpires and in characterizing the value of sport - especially if that value is regarded as moral value. In general Sport Rules and Values rejects a conception of the determinacy of rules as possible within sport and a parallel picture of the determinacy assumed to be required by philosophy . Detailed consideration of some ideas from classics in the philosophy of sport especially writings by Bernard Suits and William Morgan contextualize this discussion. Overall this work exemplifies the dependence of philosophical considerations of sport on ideas from philosophy more generally. Thus it sketches for example the contrast between rules and principles an account of the occasion-sensitivity of understanding and the place of normative and motivating reasons within practical reasoning. The book s argumentative structures originate in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein without explicitly being an exposition of those ideas. It views philosophy as addressing the specific issues of particular persons rather than approaching perennial .