On Sport and the Philosophy of Sport

What is the philosophy of sport? What does one do to count as a practitioner in the philosophy of sport? What conception of philosophy underpins the answer to those questions? In this important new book, leading sport philosopher Graham McFee draws on a lifetime's philosophical inquiry to reconceptualize the field of study. The book covers important topics such as Olympism, the symbolization of argument, and epistemology and aesthetics in sport research; it concludes with a section on applied sport philosophy, looking at rules and officiating. Using a Wittgensteinian framework and employing a rich array of sporting examples throughout, McFee challenges the assumptions of traditional analytic philosophy regarding the completeness required of concepts and the exceptionlessness required of philosophical claims, providing the reader with a new set of tools with which to approach this challenging subject. On Sport and the Philosophy of Sport is fascinating and important reading for any serious students or researchers of sport philosophy.