IAPS NewsletterThe Official Newsletter of the International Association of Philosophy of Sport 2002, Fall |
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IAPS NewsletterThe Official Newsletter of the International Association of Philosophy of Sport 2002, Fall |
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Editor’s Note: Please read and respond to the following:
I would like to thank all those involved for the exciting and stimulating days at our 2002 annual conference at Penn State. We had more than 50 papers presented in three parallel sessions on a variety of topics from ethics and aesthetics to phenomenological, epistemological and ontological perspectives on sport and human movement. Presenters came from a variety of countries, among them the US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Israel, Australia, Argentina, and Spain.. The high number of papers and the international aspect of the conference are obvious signs of an association that is flourishing. Another promising sign is that the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is in very good shape. It has turned into a biannual journal, and it is ranked among the best sport journals by its publisher Human Kinetics.
At least from my point of view, it seems as if there is an increased general interest in sport philosophy. If this is the case, such interest may have many causes. During the last decades, the significance of sport in society has increased. The expansion and development of sport gives rise to a series of philosophical questions about the meanings and values of these practices. Another cause is that we have had an active and determined IAPS leadership that has been working hard for the good of the Association. As the 2001-2 President-elect, I have had the opportunity to follow the exemplary work of Mike McNamee and Nic Dixon. It is a token of their efforts that none of them return to ordinary membership status as their Presidencies are over. Mike will be in charge of hosting our 2003 meeting in Cheltenham, England, and Nic is the new editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport.
It will be a tough job to live up to their standards but together with those voted onto the Executive Council and IAPS Committees, and with other members, I will certainly try to do my best. Let me start by using this opportunity to ask for your help. One sign of a flourishing association is that its members are paying their annual dues and that they are active in nomination and voting processes. Here there is definitely room for improvement. I encourage you all to check your membership status and to spend a necessary five minutes to vote.
The new Executive Board will work on a series of issues. Two immediate issues are these:
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This fall there will be a vote on constitutional amendments, among them the proposal of a two-year presidency. We are about to administer this vote and hope that members will take part. |
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Together with Cesar Torres on the Honors, Award and Future Sites committee, we will continue working on the possibility of arranging our 2004 conference in conjunction with the ICSSPE Pre-Olympic Congress in Greece. If this turns out to be too difficult, we have alternatives in Italy and in the US that will be further explored. |
Finally, thanks to Karin Volkwein - Caplan and Heather Reed as they depart from the executive board. As Members at Large, they served two years and we appreciate their dedication to our profession. I also thank our continuing board members who keep the Association on track and on task. A special thank you to R. Scott Kretchmar for his years of service as IAPS journal editor. The Journal is the single greatest definition of who we are as a scholarly body, and Scott was an excellent spokesman for our scholarly work.
I use the opportunity to wish all IAPS members a good December, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I am looking forward cooperating and working with all of you for the next year or so.
The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the
submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2003 IAPS
meeting. It will take place at Cheltenham, England from Thursday, September 18
to Sunday, September 21. More details about the conference will follow in
upcoming newsletters.
Abstracts are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport, including metaphysics,
epistemology, aesthetics and ethics, and from any theoretical approach,
including analytic philosophy and critical theory. In addition to abstracts for
papers, proposals for round table and panel discussions, including a tentative
list of participants, are also welcome and should follow the same format as
paper abstracts.
Abstracts should be 300-500 words long and must be received by April 1, 2003.
The preferred mode of submission is by e-mail. Please send your abstract as an
attachment, preferably in Word. Contributors who do not have access to e-mail
should feel free to send a hard copy instead.
Please submit e-mail copies of abstracts to jmboxill@email.unc.edu
Please send hard copies (only if e-mail is not available) to:
Jan Boxill
Department of Philosophy
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125
USA
FAX: 919-962-6094
Abstracts will be reviewed by a program committee of three peers in IAPS.
Contributors will be notified about the acceptance or rejection of their
abstracts by May 1, 2003
The Leisure & Sport Research Unit http://www.glos.ac.uk/lsru/ at the University of Gloucestershire, UK, welcomes you to attend the annual IAPS conference from 18 - 21st September 2003. The University has four main campuses, three in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester. The conference will be held at the Park Campus in Cheltenham. Please click on these links for information about the campus, travel, maps, Cheltenham town and the surrounding area http://www.glos.ac.uk/uog/content.asp?sid=2 and http://www.glos.ac.uk/lsru/content.asp?sid=4
England's Regency spa town has been welcoming visitors for nearly 300 years. Cheltenham became a spa town in 1716. Tradition has it that the first medicinal waters were discovered when local people saw pigeons pecking at salty deposits which had formed around a spring. The town received Royal patronage in 1788 when King George III visited the town to drink the waters. This contributed to the rapid development of Cheltenham as a fashionable spa between 1790 and 1840. The heritage of that earlier era can still be seen today in the town's Regency architecture, with intricate ironwork a feature of distinctive town house facades. Cheltenham is the most complete English Regency town. And you can still take the waters at the Pittville Pump Rooms!
Cheltenham is also a cultural centre of international repute, offering a broad variety of entertainment for visitors including excellent theatre, music, dance and comedy, antique and collectors' fairs.
For the sports fan, Cheltenham is known as the home of National Hunt horse racing; there are fine golf courses throughout the region; the premier tennis club in the county is located in Cheltenham, and; the county boasts one of the top rugby teams in the country in Gloucester Rugby Club. Cheltenham is also in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. With thousands of miles of paths, the Cotswolds present walkers and ramblers with unrivalled opportunities to experience the English countryside. If you want to explore the region's history and heritage some of the attractions you can visit include the Pittville Pump Rooms, Sudeley Castle, Hailes Abbey, Prinknash Abbey and Pottery, and Holst's Birthplace Museum.
For further information about what to do and see in and around Cheltenham and the Cotswolds please visit Cheltenham's tourist information website www.visitcheltenham.gov.uk
I would like to begin my tenure as editor of JPS by reiterating my thanks to outgoing editor Scott Kretchmar for four years of excellent stewardship. During this time, the journal has moved smoothly to two volumes a year and the number of submissions has steadily risen, while their quality has remained high. I would also like to thank Paul Davis for his fine work for the past year as associate editor and review editor. I am glad to announce that Paul will be continuing in this role for 2002-4. If you are interested in reviewing a book for JPS, please contact him at PDavis@uwic.ac.uk.
I am also pleased to announce that, after discussion with the editorial review board at Penn State and with the managing editor, I have decided to implement Human Kinetics’ Journal Online Review System (JORS) for JPS, for at least a trial period. The system is up and running. If the reaction is positive, we will adopt it more long-term. Under JORS, contributors upload their papers to the central JORS web site, where it can be accessed by the editor and by the referees chosen for each particular paper. Confidentiality is strictly preserved by restricting access for authors and referees to the appropriate section of the site. Referees then download the paper from the web site for review and post their comments on a part of the site that only the editor can access. Once a decision is made, authors are informed of the decision regarding publication and given access, again on the web site, to the referees’ and editor’s comments.
Online submission through JORS is now the preferred method of sending articles to JPS. The procedure is simplicity itself. Submissions must be either Word or RTF files. Visit the Human Kinetics JORS web site <www.humankinetics.com/jors> and follow the instructions for authors. The registration process is very user-friendly. In a trial run, I registered as an author, submitted a sample paper, sent it to myself as a referee, sent my comments as referee to the editor (also myself!), sent the editor’s decision to the author, and finally accessed the authors’ area to read the editor’s and referees’ comments. The whole process took me just a few minutes.
The savings of time and postage costs for everyone—authors, referees, and editor—promises to be significant. The automated e-mails that are sent to authors by the JORS system are a tad impersonal, but JORS permits the editor to send authors detailed, personalized messages through the web site that are just like regular letters. I urge all of you who have manuscripts to submit to JPS to do so via JORS. I would also like to hear back from you at dixon@alma.edu regarding the system after you have used it.
For those of you who do not have internet access, I will of course continue to accept submissions the old-fashioned way: just send four hard copies, as explained under “Instructions to Contributors” in the journal. My address is:
Nicholas Dixon, Editor
Alma College
614 W. Superior St.
Alma, MI 48801-1599
U.S.A.
ICSSPE (the International Council for Sport Science and Physical Education) is serving all its members world-wide. IAPS has now been a member for several years. We are also represented at the ICSSPE Executive Board with 2 of our members: Karin Volkwein (USA) and Mike McNamee (Great Britain). Since IAPS became an Association of ICSSPE in 2001 we are now going to the international meetings every year - this year's meeting was in Manchester, Great Britain. ICSSPE helps its members to distribute information about the organization as well as distributing current research throughout the world. These publications by ICSSPE are also a wonderful way to get our research published. The "Bulletin" is the ICSSPE journal that comes out several times per year and it holds research articles as well as theme and discussion section. As discussed at our recent IAPS meeting at Penn State, information about opportunities to write for and publish in the ICSSPE publications will be announced through our website - as this information becomes available. More information about ICSSPE can be found on their website (http://www.icsspe.org). The current president is Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper, and she has her office located in Berlin. However, the organization will have to elect a new president in the near future and is interested in any suggestions. If any of the IAPS members are interested in getting more involved with this international organization, PLEASE do not hesitate to contact either Karin Volkwein (kvolkwein@wcupa.edu) or Mike McNamee (MMcNamee@@chelt.ac.uk)
Paul Weiss, the founding president of IAPS passed away last summer at the age of 101. In the late 1960s, Paul Weiss through discussion with Warren Fraleigh and others helped organize the first meeting of the then organization: Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport at Brockport, NY. Weiss believed that sport was a venue to study and to understand the why of human participation. Dr. Weiss wrote nearly two dozen books, including his magnum opus at the age of 94, Being and Other Realities (Open Court, 1995) and The Philosophy of Paul Weiss (Open Court, 1995). Weiss worked with or had contacts with the leading philosophers of the day: Rudolf Carnap, Carl Gustav Hempel, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, and Martin Heidegger. His students at Yale included Richard Rorty, William F. Buckley, Jr., Dick Cavett, and George W. Bush, who he could not remember being in class. It is reported that Weiss was told that Bush probably didn't attend class often. Weiss brought many age discrimination cases against various universities who kept firing him because of age. The last case was in 1992 at the age of 91, when American University terminated his contract. He sued and won. American University was forced to give an apology and a yearly contract. Weiss finally retired in 1994. He wrote until he died. His latest work will be coming out this year, Surrogates, through Indiana Press.
John Rawls, the imminent American philosopher, died on November 24, 2002
after an extended illness. His obituary can be found at: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/obituaries/26RAWL.html
Wow!! We had a great time. If you missed it, check out our
picture gallery. Also, if you didn't get to read the
abstracts, click on.
Sports Ethics, an Anthology. (2002). Jan Boxill, Ed. UK: Oxford Press.
About IAPSEstablished in 1972 as the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport with it’s name changed in 1999. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate, encourage, and promote study, research, and writing in the philosophy of sporting (and related) activity; to demonstrate the relevance of philosophic thought concerning sport to matters of professional concern; to organize and conduct meetings concerning the philosophy of sport; to issue publications concerning the philosophy of sport; to support and to cooperate with local, national, and international organizations of similar purpose; to affiliate with national and international organizations of similar purpose; and to engender national, regional, and continental affiliates devoted to the philosophic study of sport. Executive Board: International Association of Philosophy of Sport President: Sigmund Loland, Norway, Sigmund.Loland@nih.no President-Elect: Jan Boxill, USA, jmboxill@email.unc.edu Secretary Treasurer: Alan Hardman, Great Britain, ahardman@chelt.ac.ul Journal Editor: Nicholas Dixon, USA, nicholasdixon99@hotmail.com Members at Large: Dennis Hemphill, Australia, dennis.hemphill@vu.edu.au; William Morgan, USA, morgan.523@osu.edu; Jeffrey Fry, USA, jfry@bsu.edu and Claudio Tamburinni, Sweden, claudio.tamburrini@mailbox.swipnet.se Webmaster: Andy Miah, Great Britain, andymiah@hotmail.com Newsletter Editor: Sharon Kay Stoll, USA, sstoll@uidaho.edu
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