Sport Rules and Values

<p><em>Sport Rules and Values </em>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. In general <em>Sport Rules and Values</em> 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). Throughout the presentation is rich in concrete cases from sport including cricket baseball American football soccer and ice-skating. <br>Detailed consideration of some ideas from classics in the philosophy of sport especially writings by Bernard Suits and William Morgan contextualizes 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.<br>Sport Rules and Values represents a distinctive conception both of sport and of its philosophical investigation which will appeal to all those with an interest in philosophy and ethics of sport.</p>