Every year, the Royal Institute of Philosophy offers a lecture series in London on a particular topic. In 2012-2013, the focus was philosophy and sport. These lectures are now available, published by Cambridge University Press (here and here).
Table of Contents:
- Preface, Anthony O'Hear
- Ways of Watching Sport, Stephen Mumford
- The Martial Arts and Buddhist Philosophy, Graham Priest
- Sport as a Moral Practice: An Aristotelian Approach, Michael W. Austin
- A Plea for Risk, Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson
- Not a Matter of Life and Death?, Anthony O'Hear
- Sport and Life, Paul Snowdon
- Glory in Sport (and Elsewhere), Timothy Chappell
- Conceptual Problems with Performance Enhancing Technology in Sport, Emily Ryall
- Is Mountaineering a Sport?, Philip Bartlett
- Rivalry in Cricket and Beyond: Healthy or Unhealthy?, Michael Brearley
- In the Zone, David Papineau
- Olympic Sacrifice: A Modern Look at an Ancient Tradition, Heather L. Reid
- Chess, Imagination, and Perceptual Understanding, Paul Coates
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