Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2211236
Margus Vihalem
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2208741
Federico Luzzi
Epistemic injustice is a widely discussed phenomenon in many sub-disciplines (including epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy). Yet, there is very little literature on its connection to the philosophy of sports. Here I explore the intersection between epistemic injustice and sports, focusing on testimonial injustice. I argue that there exist clear-cut cases of testimonial injustice in sport that arise when athletes attempt to communicate information. After highlighting the theoretical connections between various cases, I explore the more ambitious claim that sport performances themselves carry linguistic content. This claim allows us to see the biased negative judgment of sport performances in a new light, as constituting a further and distinctive form of testimonial injustice. I show how the case of figure-skater Surya Bonaly can be understood as a real-life instantiation of this form of testimonial injustice. I conclude by explaining why it is philosophically fruitful to understand these wrongs through the lens of testimonial injustice.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-23DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2204243
Jan Deckers, Silvina Pezzetta
ABSTRACT There is a dearth of academic research on the ethics of pigeon racing. We argue that pigeon racing is associated with significant benefits and disadvantages, but that the benefits that have been associated with it can be provided by alternative practices. Disadvantages include the competitive element associated with racing, which creates a strong incentive to kill birds where this is not in their best interests, as well as the welfare issues related to transportation, the widowhood system, the races themselves, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Whilst some of these disadvantages can be diminished, we argue that an ethical form of pigeon racing is not possible, and that it therefore ought to be prohibited. In the final part of this article, we question whether the moral problems associated with pigeon racing include the keeping of pigeons per se. On this issue, we argue that keeping pigeons does pose moral problems, but that more research is needed to explore whether these might be relatively minor compared to the problems associated with de-domesticating pigeons. The moral implications of our research extend beyond the world of pigeon racing as similar arguments should be used to question the racing and keeping of many other animals.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2193759
J. Malis, Tomáš Michalica
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2195681
Sandra Meeuwsen, H. Zwart
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2200114
A. Edgar
Governing bodies in golf, in particular the R&A and USGA, are proposing to introduce an elite golf ball for their tournaments (the Open and the US Open) in 2026 (see https://www. bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/64969882). The distance that the elite golf ball can travel will be restricted. If the ball is struck by a driver swung at 127 mph in laboratory conditions it should not be capable of travelling further than 320 yards. This move has come about because a new generation of golfers has the muscular strength to outdrive a course, potentially transforming par 5 holes into pars 4s, and par 4s into 3s. At the Augusta Masters, the iconic 13th hole has had to be lengthened by 35 yards to cope with modern hitting, threatening the distinctive nature and aesthetic of this hole. The Old Course at St Andrews may simply now be too short for it to host the Open. The proposal has generated an interesting, and effectively philosophical, debate within professional golf. US Ryder Cup players Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau are vocally against it, asserting that it is a solution to which no problem exists, but more significantly that it is an innovation that will divide the elite game from the amateur. Thomas makes the point that at present an amateur golfer, of any standard, can play (if they can afford it) with the same equipment as an elite player. Part of the ethos of golf indeed might be seen to lie in the fact that amateurs can play the same courses as professionals. (From what I have read of this, it is not clear that amateurs couldn’t restrict themselves to the new professional ball, if they wished—but perhaps I’ve missed something.) However, a counter point might be that golf is very adept at allowing players of different abilities to play against each other—thanks not merely to the handicap system, but also to differently placed tees for men and women. It is a model of a certain form of inclusivity. It might then be argued that, in the elite game, the elite ball will allow nuanced skill to continue to compete against raw strength. Also pro-am competitions might acquire greater meaning and weight if the professionals were handicapped through the ball they were required to use. Players who approve the new policy include the world’s currently third ranked player, Rory McIlroy, and significantly Brandon Matthews, the possessor of the professional tour’s fastest swing. (126.6mph, in case you were wondering.) For Matthews, the new ball will bring back qualities to the professional sport, including a more varied and aesthetically pleasing flight of the ball, that are in danger of being lost. McIlroy has drawn an analogy to tennis, and to the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon deliberately slowing the game down through the choice of the type of ball used, and the sowing of a ‘stickier’ grass. This made the sport more entertaining (to spectators, but hopefully more interestingly challenging to players) by making longer rallies possible. Perhaps the key proble
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Pub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2189292
R. Humphreys
ABSTRACT This paper aims to provide a conceptual analysis of blood-sport as a concept. Through utilising a generalised notion of sport as well as the concept of fair-play, the objective will be to examine whether blood-sports are games and analyse to what extent, if any, blood-sports can be properly called ‘sports’. For the purposes of application and because of the sheer numbers of birds used in the sports-shooting industry, the paper will focus on a discussion of game-birding, but the findings will apply to the practice of ‘blood-sport’ more generally. Work by Sam P. Morris (IJAP, 2014) argues that ‘fair-chase hunting’ can be classified as a game, as well as a sport, although Morris stresses that answers to questions concerning the sport status of hunting do not provide answers to questions regarding the ethics of blood-sports. The author of this paper agrees with Morris regarding the latter point, but pace Morris, she argues that it is doubtful that blood-sport is a game let alone a sport, and that even if one assumes for argument's sake that it is indeed a game, it cannot be properly classed as sport, and that a fair-chase code undermines itself in the context of so called ‘blood-sports’. 1
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Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2190155
Aldo Houterman
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Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2189293
T. Fjeld
{"title":"Bourdieu’s Field Theory Revisited: A Case for ‘National Signification’","authors":"T. Fjeld","doi":"10.1080/17511321.2023.2189293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2023.2189293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51786,"journal":{"name":"Sport Ethics and Philosophy","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88731805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2023.2189291
J. Holt
ABSTRACT Though animal ethics in sport obviously applies most urgently to cases of animals at mortal risk (e.g., hunting and bullfighting) or vulnerable to various types of abuse (e.g., doping and harmful training practices), less obvious domains bear scrutiny as well. Here I examine whether we can strictly take not just riders but horses to be players in equine sports. There is an apparent tension in the concept of equestrian prowess, a peculiar blend of skills and attitudes, between regarding horses as subjects of persuasion or collaboration and treating them as objects of control. As our understanding of animal cognition and behaviour continues to improve, it becomes increasingly clear that animal intelligence and agential capacities are far greater than we formerly presumed. In this light, using Suits’s theory of games, I argue that horses are game players that sometimes consent (or assent) and sometimes refuse to play equine sports. Drawing on recent accounts of horse-rider partnership and on my own equestrian background, I conclude by sketching a utopian vision of what equine sports could be.
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