IAPS Newsletter The Official Newsletter of the International Association of Philosophy of Sport 2003, Fall

In this issue,

Editor’s Note:     Please read and respond to the following:

1. President's Message

2. IAPS Call for Abstracts, 2004

3. IAPS Conference 2004, September 16-19

4. IAPS 2003. University of Gloucestershire, UK, annual meeting and conference.  Pictures

5. News from Journal of Philosophy of Sport

6. Meetings, Executive Session, 2003

7. Meetings, Business Meeting, 2003

8. Other News, Announcements

9. IAPS Membership Forms.

10. About IAPS and Executive Board

President’s Message

It has been over a year since the Penn State Conference, a conference I thought would be difficult to match.  That conference showed the commitment that our members have to the study of sport and philosophy.  Like any professional conference it is difficult to decide just which papers to attend, and that was certainly true of this conference. The Cheltenham conference once again demonstrated the commitment, with nearly100 submissions for the conference.  This I believe must be a record.  The selection committee spent much time in reading the abstracts to narrow the conference down to 60 presentations. This is still a large number.  Unfortunately due to family situations I was unable to attend this conference.  But I want to thank the selection committee, Bill Morgan and Dennis Hemphill, Heather Sheridan and Mike McNamee for the conference arrangements, and my research assistant at UNC, Andrew Courtwright.  Your work was greatly appreciated and was shown in the success of the 2003 Conference.  Thank you.

The 2004 Conference place and dates have now been set, Fort Worth, Texas, September 16-19, 2004.  Spencer Wertz has graciously agreed to make the conference arrangements.  Abstracts should be sent to me; they should be 300-500 words long and must be received by April 1, 2004. Let’s take the excitement from the previous conferences to Ft. Worth, Texas.

Each year Human Kinetics reviews the costs associated with each of the journals it publishes and determines what, if any, adjustments to the subscription price might be needed for the year to come.  I am pleased to say that the regular subscription rates to JPS for individuals will remain the same in 2004 as in 2003, and thus there will be no change to the fee HK charges IAPS to provide the journal to members; the fee will remain $33 per year for each professional member, and $20 per year for each student member. 

I wish everyone Happy Holidays and that you will make your plans to come to Ft. Worth in September, 2004.

2004 Call for Abstracts

Jan Boxhill, President

IAPS 2004 CONFERENCE
Call for Papers
Jan Boxill, President

The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2004 IAPS meeting. It will take place at September 16-19, 2004, in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. 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, 2004. 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 15, 2004

IAPS 2004 Conference Fort Worth, Texas

The 2004 IAPS conference is slated to be held at Fort Worth, Texas, USA.  We will be at the Worthington Hotel for our conference meeting.  The dates are: Sept. 16-19.  More news is unavailable. Check this site through the next few months for more information.

News from Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

Nicholas Dixon, Editor

Volume XXX, issue 2 has been published and IAPS members should receive their copies shortly, if they have not done so already.  Please be advised that Human Kinetics inadvertently published outdated material in the page beginning “Notes to Contributors.”  Submission deadlines for each issue should not appear.  Starting with the previous issue (Vol. XXX, issue 1) we had decided to drop these published deadlines, because it is misleading to suggest that articles submitted by a certain date will be, if accepted, published in the next issue, or that articles not received by then will be ineligible.  The amount of time required for initial review, potential revision and resubmission, and further review is unpredictable.  We are better advised to simply accept submissions throughout the year and publish articles that have been accepted and are ready to run in their final version by the time that Human Kinetics’ publishing deadline for each issue arrives. 

 More important, the incorrect page published in this issue fails to mention that our online review system (JORS) is now (and has been since spring 2003) the preferred method of submission to JPS.  To submit papers through this system, simply visit the JORS web site http://www.humankinetics.com/jors/ and log on as an author.  This will require a very simple registration process for those of you who have not used JORS before and you will subsequently be able to access the site by using just your e-mail address and password.  Papers must be submitted as Word (preferred format) or Rich Text Format (RTF) files.  This system saves time and postage costs for authors, referees and editors.  However, we will still accept submissions the old-fashioned way (4 hard copies sent to the editor) by authors unable to use JORS.  

 Please also note two errors in the list of members of the editorial review board.  (I had sent a correct list to Human Kinetics, but this may have been mislaid.)  (1) The fifth member of the review board prefers to be called “Leslie Francis,” without the initial “R” and “Pickering.”  (2) Bill Morgan’s institutional affiliation is Ohio State University.  Apologies to both Leslie and Bill.

 We still have space left for more articles in the spring 2004 issue of JPS.  Bearing in mind the uncertainties mentioned in the first paragraph of this update, papers submitted very soon might be eligible for publication in this issue.  But this depends on prompt return of referees’ comments, a judgment that a paper is acceptable with minimal revisions, and prompt completion of those revisions.  So time is of the essence in submitting your papers!

IAPS 2003:  University of Gloucestershire, UK

Mike McNamee and Heather Sheridan, Co-Chairs of Organising Committee

We would like to thank everyone involved in the 2003 annual conference hosted by the Centre for Ethics, Equity and Sport, University of Gloucestershire, UK.  In all, there were a record 59 presentations (55 papers and 1 workshop in three parallel sessions, 2 keynotes, and Sigmund Loland’s Presidential address).  Topics included aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics and epistemology which were located in themes such as sport and religion, genetic modification of athletes, extreme sports and death, sports education, and regulation and decision making in sport.   

Although the conference provided old friends with the opportunity to meet again, there were lots of new faces too, many of whom were from Europe as well as a large Japanese contingent.  The ‘old hands’, as usual, did a great job in creating a collegial and stimulating environment for those participating for the first time.  Presenters came from a total of 14 countries including, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Taiwan, UK and USA.

 The conference banquet on the Saturday evening was very well attended.  In between courses Keith Thompson and Warren Fraleigh, both in their decades after retirement, shared their reflections on their 1^st and 31^st conferences respectively.  But perhaps the highlight of the evening was the entertainment kindly provided by Tor Stornes from Norway who sang a few songs he had composed especially for the conference, including ‘ The Banquet Song’.  At the end of the evening guests were last seen (and heard) walking back to their hotels singing ‘Sigmund Loland is the man …’   

Pictures of 2003 Conference 

Heather Sheridan through Jim Parry's camera and Jim Parry's photography provided some pictures of the conference, just for fun.

 IAPS Executive Session Minutes: 2003

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IAPS General Business Meeting Minutes:  2003

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Text of Constitution Revision

Please click here for the 2003 Constitution Revisions.

Announcements:

Conference on Sport and Religion

Call for Papers on Cricket Symposium

Skating into the Future Conference Call

Sport Dictionary Available