INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT MEETING

Williamsburg, Virginia, 25-28 October, 2001

Program

Each paper will be allotted 45 minutes for presentation and discussion.  Sessions A and B will meet in parallel in separate rooms.  Papers have been grouped according to shared themes, which may not be the main thesis of a paper.  The best guide to a paper’s content is its title, not its placement in a session.

Thursday, Oct. 25

2-5 p.m.                      IAPS executive meeting

4-7 p.m.                      Registration, Cascades Foyer, Conference Center

7-7.30 p.m.                Welcome

7.30-9 p.m.                A Commercialization and High Salaries

Chair: Mike McNamee, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education

                                   Presenters

                                    William J. Morgan, University of Tennessee

                                    “Sport, Money, and the Moral Life”

                                    Jean-Francois Doré, Université de Québec a Montréal

                                    “Money and the mind/body problem: Philosophical reasons why people resent Alex  Rodriguez’s salary”

 

                            B            Implications of Thoreau for Sport

Chair: Scott Kretchmar, Pennsylvania State University

                                    Presenters

Douglas R. Hochstetler, Eastern Mennonite University

“Thoreau and Sport: Possibilities for Change”

Doug Anderson, Pennsylvania State University

“Recovering Humanity: Movement, Sport, and Nature”

 

Friday, Oct. 26

8 a.m.-5 p.m.            Registration, Cascades Foyer, Conference Center

8.30-10 a.m.            A            Subjectivity and Objectivity in Sport

                                    Chair: Sigmund Loland, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education

                                    Presenters

                                     Vegard Fusche Moe, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education

“The internal and external approach to movements in sports: some comments”

Danny Rosenberg, Brock University

“The Challenge of Levinas for Sport”

 

                                    B         Moral Education and Other Values in Sport

                                    Chair: Peter Arnold, University of Edinburgh

                                    Presenters

Jim Parry, Leeds University

“Values and Football”

M. Andrew Holowchak, Ohio University

“Aggression, Gender, and Sport: Reflections on Sport as a Means to Moral Education”

10-10.30 a.m.            Refreshment Break

 

10.30-12 a.m.     A            Sport Technology

Chair: Claudio Tamburrini, Gothenburg University

                                    Presenters

Sigmund Loland, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education

“Sport Technology: A Moral View”

Sharon Stoll, Jennifer Beller, and Chelsea Herman, University of Idaho

“Advanced material engineers…why they need sport philosophers.  A real-world example of Aristotle’s market place put to practice."

B            Sport and Aesthetics

Chair: Sheryle Drewe, University of Manitoba

Presenters

Peter Arnold, University of Edinburgh

“Education and the Art of Dance”

Spencer K. Wertz, Texas Christian University

“Are There True Judges in Sport?  David Hume Meets Roger Angell”

 

noon-1 p.m.                Lunch meeting of JPS Editorial Review Board

 

1-2.30 p.m.                A            Sport and Moral Psychology

Chair: Spencer K. Wertz, Texas Christian University

Presenters

Jeffrey P. Fry, Ball State University

“On Playing with Emotion”

Gunnar Breivik, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education

“Generosity as a Principle in Elite Sport”

 

B            Conduct of Athletes and Other Professionals in Sport

Chair: Karin Volkwein, West Chester University

Presenters

Yotam Lurie, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

“The Ontology of Sport Injuries: Professional Ethics in Sports Medicine”

                                    Andy Rudd (Western Oregon University) and Sharon Stoll (University of Idaho)

“Sport as a Moral Practice Versus a Social Practice: A Conflict Between Sport Academicians and Sport Practitioners”

 

2.30-4 p.m.                A            Sport and Society

Chair: Nicholas Dixon, Alma College

Presenters

Robert L. Simon, Hamilton College

“Intercollegiate Athletics and ‘The Game of Life’”

Jan Boxill, University of North Carolina

“Sport as a Public Forum for Ethics."

B            Definition of Sport

Chair: Alun Hardman, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education

Presenters

Leo Hsu, Leeds University

“Revisiting the Tricky Triad”

Douglas W. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University

“Games, Rules, and Experience: An Alternative Reading of Suits."

4.15-5 p.m.                Mike McNamee, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education

Presidential Address: “Sporting Schadenfreude: Notes on the Emotional Economy of Injury Infliction"

Saturday, Oct. 27

8.30-10 a.m.            A            Criteria for Evaluating Sport

                                    Chair: William J. Morgan, University of Tennessee

                                   Presenters

Heather Sheridan, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education

“How to think critically about the ethical norms of tennis: a Walzerian analysis”

Alun R. Hardman, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education

“Sport and Reflective Ethnocentrism: What Lies Beyond the Gratuitous Logic of Sport?”

B            Competition

Chair: Gunnar Breivik, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education

Presenters

Scott Kretchmar, Pennsylvania State University

“In Defense of Winning”

Norman Fischer, Clark-Atlanta University

“The Place of the Language of War in Sport."

10-10.30 a.m.            Refreshment Break

10.30-12 a.m.     A            Methodology and Pedagogy

                                    Chair: Jim Parry, Leeds University

                                    Presenters

Claudia Pawlenka, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tübingen

“Utilitarianism as the Adequate Approach to Ethics of High Performance Sports”

Mike McNamee (moderator), Alun Hardman, Scott Kretchmar, Sigmund Loland, Heather Reid

Roundtable discussion on “Pedagogy in the Philosophy of Sport: Professional and Curricular Development Issues."

                                    B         Relationship Between Athletes and Coaches/Physicians

Chair: Sharon Stoll, University of Idaho

Presenters

Sheryle Bergmann-Drewe, University of Manitoba

“The Coach-Athlete Relationship: How Close is Too Close?”

Katrin Jung, University of Western Ontario

“A critical analysis of the health and sport system using the philosophical concept of autonomy."

1-3.15 p.m.                A            Gender Issues

                                    Chair: Jan Boxill, University of North Carolina

                                    Presenters

Karin A. E. Volkwein, West Chester University

“Gender Barriers in Sport and Physical Activity”

Charlene Weaving, University of Western Ontario

“The sexualization of women athletes: contact sports and emerging new sports versus the image of an ‘ideal woman’”

Claudio Tamburrini, Gothenburg University

“What’s Wrong with the Body Exposition of Female Sport Stars?

B            Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Chair: M. Andrew Holowchak, Ohio University

Presenters

Nicholas Dixon, Alma College

“Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Paternalism, and Harm to Others”

Angela J. Schneider and Robert B. Butcher, University of Western Ontario

“Doping Revisited: An Ethical and Metaphysical Analysis of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s New Anti-Doping Code”

Heather Reid, Morningside College

“An Epistemological Argument Against Doping in Sport."

3.15-5 p.m.                Business meeting (open to all IAPS members)

7 p.m.                         Conference Banquet

 

Sunday, Oct. 28

9.15-10 a.m.            A            Sport and Moral Education

                                    Chair: Jeffrey Fry, Ball State University

                                    Presenter

Matt Stolick, University of Findlay

“Emile II: Teaching Children Moral Lessons through Sports Participation."

8.30-10 a.m.              B         Beauty and Suffering in Sport

Chair: John Charles, College of William and Mary

Presenters

Maria Regina Damasio, Rio de Janeiro State University

“Suffering as a Necessity in Physical Training”

João Ricardo Moderno, Rio de Janeiro State University

“Aesthetics of Football: Luigi Pareyson’s Formativity Theory and Football-Art”

10-10.30 a.m.            Refreshment Break

10.30-12 a.m.     A            Right Action in Sport

Chair: Angela Schneider, University of Western Ontario

Presenters

Deb Vossen, St. Francis Xavier University

“Definitions, Equivocations and Dichotomizations: A Review of the Fair Play Literature”

Neil T. Laughlin, University of San Francisco

“Ethical Tenets of Thomism: Implications for Sport”

B            Violence in Hockey and Other Sports

Chair: Heather Reid, Morningside College

Presenters

Philip Sullivan, Brock University

“Applying the Prisoner’s Dilemma to Instigatory Fighting in the National Hockey League”

Ken Nickel, University of Western Ontario

“The Consent Defense: Challenges for Adjudicating Harmful Actions in Sport”