{"title":"Athletic skill and the value of close contests","authors":"E. Flynn","doi":"10.1080/00948705.2021.1915147","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper I defend an Irreconcilability Thesis, claiming that two commonly held views about athletic contests are in fact incompatible. The first view is that athletic contests are essentially comparative tests of athletic skill. The second view is that the best contests are close contests. I take the second view to be true, hence I contend that the Irreconcilability Thesis shows that there is something wrong with the first view. I conclude by suggesting that the thesis has interesting implications regarding the value of winning an athletic contest, since that value cannot adequately be accounted for in terms of the athletic skill that yields victory.","PeriodicalId":46532,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Philosophy of Sport","volume":"48 1","pages":"186 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00948705.2021.1915147","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Philosophy of Sport","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2021.1915147","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ETHICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT In this paper I defend an Irreconcilability Thesis, claiming that two commonly held views about athletic contests are in fact incompatible. The first view is that athletic contests are essentially comparative tests of athletic skill. The second view is that the best contests are close contests. I take the second view to be true, hence I contend that the Irreconcilability Thesis shows that there is something wrong with the first view. I conclude by suggesting that the thesis has interesting implications regarding the value of winning an athletic contest, since that value cannot adequately be accounted for in terms of the athletic skill that yields victory.
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