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UNINA9910785790103321 |
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McFee Graham |
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Sport, Rules and Values [[electronic resource] ] : Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012 |
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1-280-07946-0 |
1-134-33015-4 |
0-203-29987-6 |
0-203-68560-1 |
1-283-58499-9 |
9786613897442 |
1-134-33016-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Sports - Moral and ethical aspects |
Sports - Philosophy |
Sports - Rules |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sport, rules and values; Organization of the text; Some central ideas for this text; Hope for a philosophy of sport?; A view of philosophy?; The audience for this work; PART I Rules in explaining sport; 1 Definiteness and defining sport; The issues; Why define?; A definition (of sport) is neither possible nor desirable; Mistakenly thinking one has a definition; Rule-following and definition; The philosophical point (or lack of it) of definition; What is in common?; 2 Rule-following and formalism in sport |
Formalism: explaining sport in terms of rules?Criticisms: the adequacy of formalism?; Some defence of formalism; Constitutive and regulative uses of rules; Some general considerations about rule-following; Some implications for formalism; An occasion-sensitive view of meaning and understanding; Rule-following and understanding; 3 Rule-following |
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and rule-formulations; Formalism extended: the idea of more kinds of rules; Alternatives to formalism - the ethoi position; Two versions of ethos account; Ethos: a normative account; Rules and the purposes of sport; More fundamental criticisms |
Rules and rule-formulations4 Practices and normativity in sport; A view of practices; Ethos, practice and normativity; Customs and rules; Conclusion to Part I; PART II Rules in judging sport; 5 Aesthetic sports, publicity and judgement calls; Just about every call is a judgement call; Two kinds of sports?; What is subjectivity?; Two bad arguments for the subjectivity of judgements; Objectivity and options; Aesthetic sports: the importance of judgement; 6 Principles and the application of rules; The need to apply the rules (even for purposive sports); Some cases?; Principles and discretion |
A parallel: the moral reading of the American Constitution?7 Spoiling, cheating and playing the game; Spoiling - 'legal' cheating; The spoiling example; The issue of generality; Finding the real rules?; Some other cases; Cheating and rule-following; What is wrong with cheating?; Why obey rules?; Conclusion to Part II: the moral imperative is intrinsic; PART III Rules in valuing sport; 8 The project of a moral laboratory; and particularism; Sport's moral dimension?; Explanations and qualifications; The argument; Investigation of the premises; Particularism and moral judgement |
Thinking about the moral laboratoryProblem: the moral nature of sport?; Outcomes; 9 The value of sport; Reasons for participation in sport; Normative and motivating reasons; Normative reasons, rules and sport; The persistence of value; The remaking of value-formulations; 10 Relativism, objectivity and truth; The denial of the coherence of relativism; The postmodern challenge: incredulity towards metanarratives; Understanding and the concrete; The postmodern challenge II: reason and science; One sporting world?; Conclusion: Sport, rules and philosophy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sport, Rules and Values 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, Sport, Rules and Values 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, inc |
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UNISA996385673503316 |
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Autore |
Shakespeare William <1564-1616.> |
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The history of Henrie the fourth [[electronic resource] ] : with the battell at Shrewseburie, betweene the King, and Lord Henrie Percy, surnamed Henrie Hotspur of the north. VVith the humorous conceites of Sir Iohn Falstaffe. Newly corrected by W. Shake-speare |
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London, : Printed by W[illiam] W[hite] for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe, 1613 |
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Mostly in verse. |
Printer's name from STC. |
Signatures: A-Kâ´. |
Running title reads: The historie of Henry the fourth. |
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
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