Pub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1951612
A. Currie
I expand and adapt Thi Nguyen ’ s account of games to the context of university humanities education. I analyse ‘ misalignment ’ , wherein the stakes of success or failure in a game undermine players ’ capacity to submerge themselves in play, thus missing the associated benefits. I argue that in many ways humanities university education is misaligned: crucial pedagogical goods require submersion, but submersion is undermined by how success or failure underwrites future student success.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1950543
J. Russell
An important book is always a beginning, a new way of looking at and thinking about things, sometimes including familiar things. C. Thi Nguyen’s Games: Agency as Art (2020) is one of those books. I...
一本重要的书总是一个开端，是一种看待和思考事物的新方式，有时也包括熟悉的事物。C. Thi Nguyen的《Games: Agency as Art》(2020)就是其中一本书。我…
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Pub Date : 2021-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1948340
Stephanie Patridge
In his groundbreaking and fantastic new book, Games: Agency as Art, C. Thi Nguyen asks us to see gameplay, and hence the ‘humorous, the playful, and the ridiculous’ (2020, 42), as an important sphe...
C. Thi Nguyen在其开创性的新书《Games: Agency as Art》中要求我们将游戏玩法以及“幽默、好玩和荒谬”视为一种重要的领域……
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1948339
Emily S T Ryall
This paper attempts to provide a reflection on Nguyen’s (2020) book, Games: Agency as Art. It demonstrates how games provide new ontological spaces and ways of being by focusing on the concept of a...
本文试图对Nguyen（2020）的著作《游戏：作为艺术的代理》进行反思。。。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1932517
N. Dixon
ABSTRACT Meritocracy, in which success depends on ability and effort, is a desirable goal for sport, even if sport does not achieve this goal perfectly. However, even in a meritocracy whether athletes deserve praise is questionable, given that a determinant of success, genetic endowments, is beyond their control. From a hard determinist perspective, even the elements of athletes’ actions that appear to be within their control—their diligence in developing their skill and strategy and their good sportsmanship—are themselves a function of other environmental and genetic factors for which they deserve no credit. However, a more plausible approach is the compatibilist view that enables us to combine moral evaluation of athletes’ actions with recognizing the causal influences on human behavior. In contrast with manipulation, which really does negate control over our actions, causation that operates via our rational agency is benign and perfectly consistent with our deserving praise for our achievements.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1924758
Kyle Fruh, Marcus Hedahl, L. Maring, Nate W Olson
ABSTRACT After initially pitting partisans against purists, the literature on the ethics of fandom has coalesced around a pluralist position: purists and partisans each have their own merits, and there is no ideal form of fandom. In this literature, however, the fair-weather fan continues to be viewed with dismissal and (sometimes) derision. While some fair-weather fans may earn this contempt, many fair-weather fans, we argue, are not only acceptable, they have important advantages over partisans and purists, and as such are in a better position to navigate some of the moral complexities inherent in modern sports. We develop this argument first by clarifying the nature of the fair-weather fan. We then examine challenges that fans face in many modern sports, first owing to their economic nature and, second, due to the morally tainted status of many of them. We argue that the fair-weather fan meets these challenges in ways that the partisan and purist cannot replicate.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1924759
Steffen Borge
ABSTRACT Alfred Archer recently argued that there is good reason to think that sporting supererogation exists. In the present paper, I take a closer look at Archer’s two key cases from association football and his arguments in favour of positing that there is a sporting supererogation phenomenon or realm that needs to be reckoned with. I argue that his project fails and that the notion of ‘sporting supererogation’ as championed by Archer should be rejected.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-20DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1915148
S. Loland
ABSTRACT Departing from the hegemonic position of epidemiology in population physical activity (PA) research and policy, I argue for the significance of a complementary, holistic approach: human movement ecology (HME). The argument is developed in two steps. In a first step, and using perspectives from body ecology and eco-philosophy, I emphasize the potential in movement of a ’dynamic and spontaneous ecologization’, which opens for the development of ecological consciousness and sustainable practice. In a second step, I test HME towards a ’hard case’: everyday routine walking in urban settings. Even here, and paying particular attention to the nature of habitual movement and the need for a ’greening’ of urban environments, I point to a significant movement ecological potential. I conclude that HME provides a fertile and complementary conceptual alternative to PA epidemiology. The challenge of low population PA levels is probably best met with facilitating for movement as an integral part of a sustainable everyday life. Actually, with an increased realization of HME ideals in practice, instrumental PA policies would become less relevant and, on a longer-term basis, perhaps not needed at all.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-18DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1915149
Christopher Johnson, Jason Taylor
ABSTRACT This paper explores the dynamics of extrinsic pressure in sport and its relation to athletic excellence. We argue that psychological pressure exerted by activities extrinsic to sport can be relevant to success or failure in it, such that how one manages extrinsic pressures can transmit to failure to perform in sport and thus be a determinant to victory, with no reason to think failure mitigated by the non-sporting nature of one’s other behaviour. To make this argument we offer a series of examples to test intuitions about what constitutes sporting excellence and what constitutes sporting failure. On the basis of these examples, we offer a categorization of pressures in sport and argue that psychological pressure from almost any area of life may be relevant to competition, whether intrinsic or extrinsic to the sporting contest. We substantiate this claim by proposing a framework for adjudicating the relevance of extrinsic pressures to sporting performance by appealing to the internal goods of each sport and their contribution to flourishing.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-14DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2021.1915147
E. Flynn
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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