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 ...

How does sport repair injustice (or not)?. Volume 20, Issue 3 of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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

Explore the religious and secular meanings of sport in contemporary society

Hartmut Rosa as a sport philosopher? Resonance, alienation and acceleration in sport contexts. Volume 20, Issue 1 of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

Explore the religious and secular meanings of sport in contemporary society

Publishes philosophy that engage with the nature and value of sport, as well as issues of practice and policy, from Anglo-American and Continental traditions.

This paper offers a critical reappraisal of the sport ethic through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. Building on the foundational work of Hughes and Coakley (1991), the sport ethic is defined as ...

In September 2023, global pop music icon, Taylor Swift, attended a Kansas City Chiefs National Football League (NFL) game, confirming rumors that she was dating player Travis Kelce. In this paper, ...

Publishes philosophy that engage with the nature and value of sport, as well as issues of practice and policy, from Anglo-American and Continental traditions.

This paper argues that sport should be treated as a non-essential object that various actors, including sports philosophers, have defined to pursue political interests. The paper explains what it m...

This study uses philosophy of science to argue that kendō culture and the structure of kendō society cause unfairness. The mechanism that is identified as being responsible for this is aesthetic im...

The sex category in sport has been viewed as problematic (not only) for the inclusion of athletes with DSD and transgender athletes, and some researchers have sought ways of replacing the sex categ...

This article discusses the value of philosophy of technology for the philosophy and ethics of sport by presenting Michel Serres’s idea that sport is ‘in essence technics’. Although technological de...

This paper examines the cultural transformation of sport through the lens of Twenty20 (T20) formats, focusing on the Big Bash League (BBL) in Australia as a case study. As T20 formats increasingly ...

There are two main competing views in the debate on the ethics of transgender women’s participation in elite women’s/female sport. One can be characterized as the trans-inclusion view. In this view...

Volume 19, Issue 2 of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 4, 2025)

This article explores the concepts of power as articulated in the philosophies of Nietzsche and Spinoza, applying them to the context of adapted sport for athletes with physical disabilities. Nietz...

Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Volume 19, Issue 1 of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

Bernard Suits’ groundbreaking work, The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, has profoundly shaped the philosophy of sport. Its sequel, Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure, and the Good Life...

Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

While Bernard Suits's understanding of games has significantly influenced the philosophy of sport, the longest sustained investigation in The Grasshopper is of make-believe and roleplaying games. S...

İstanbul Üniversitesi - Cerrahpaşa Araştırma Üniversitesi Misyonu ve stratejik yol haritasını belirlemiş ve Üniversitenin çalışma disiplinini bu plana uygun biçimde yürütebilen bir kurum olarak, yaln...

There appears to be a paradox at the heart of the psychology of partisan sport fandom. Fans regularly relish the prospect of or retrospect fondly upon a tough contest, yet during the contest they w...

Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2025)