Most football fans want their team to win and be successful. We all know about the fair-weather fan, who supports his team avidly – albeit only if they are winning. But there is a strange kind of fan,...

It took decades of deliberate strategy to erode our sense of pride and solidarity. We’ll have to work equally hard to get it back

An interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars,

What reason, if any, is there to object to the use of Artificial Intelligence in sport? While the existing literature has investigated several issues about the ethics of AI in sport, these studies hav...

Athletes are often claimed to be representatives of a wider community, whether that be their club, their nation or humanity as a whole. But in what sense exactly might athletes be understood to be ...

🎉 Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This recognition confirms that Passion meets intern...

Cambridge Core - Social Psychology - For, Against, Together

Decades of complacency cannot be magicked away by drilling in the North Sea – or even by hoping that renewables will quickly power everything, says historian and author Ewan Gibbs

Decades of complacency cannot be magicked away by drilling in the North Sea – or even by hoping that renewables will quickly power everything, says historian and author Ewan Gibbs

Sportswashing has recently grown into a vital concept in scholarly and public discussions of sport. In 2022, the Collins dictionary named ‘sportswashing’ one of their ten Words of the Year...

The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup and the beautiful game. Volume 20, Issue 2 of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

How can moral theory make room for the existence of acts that are beyond the call of duty? This issue has become known as the problem of supererogation, and philosophers have provided various accounts...

Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that reason, being the one who says “it’s over” can be torturou...

This article builds upon Stephen Mumford’s observations about football and chance in his book Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game. Mumford argues that football strikes a perfect balance betwee...

Explore the religious and secular meanings of sport in contemporary society

Already before endorsing transcendental idealism, Husserl pairs truths and possibilities of evidence. This ‘correlationism’ is central for phenomenological metaphysics, but it remains disputed how it ...

Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green...

Spiritual leadership has become a prominent approach within the family of horizontal and non-hierarchical leadership styles, aiming to integrate employees’ spiritual needs into organizational life. Wh...

Ken onszelve: dat is het thema van de Dag van de Filosofie 2026. Een eeuwenoude uitnodiging die nog steeds relevant is: wie zijn wij, individueel én…

Abstract. Fictional games are games that do not actually exist, but that are presented within works of fiction. They are thus not appreciated through play,

In its contribution to the global development of philosophy, the Department of Philosophy of Tilburg University focuses primarily on what it means to be human and to form a society.

Abstract. Leaving a relationship without talking to the other person seems, in principle, morally callous. Monika Betzler argues that people initiating bre

In this talk, Professor Matthew Worley examines the ways in which British punk claimed a relevance to the time and space in which it emerged. The talk considers punk’s continued presence in popular m...

Cancelling and cancel culture are terms that we hear a lot these days, and it's one of the many areas where there seems to be more heat than light. The phenomenon of cancelling has become a front in t...

The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast