IAPS Newsletter
The Official Newsletter of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
November, 2007
IAPS NewsletterThe Official Newsletter of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport November, 2007 |
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Editor’s Note: Please read and respond to the following:
IAPS Dues on Line - Information incomplete at Press
Danny Rosenberg
I am deeply honored and feel privileged to be serving you as the new IAPS president. The list of past presidents is a who’s who of those dedicated to the advancement of sport philosophy on so many fronts and across the globe these past 35 years. It is a humbling thought just to be in the company of such illustrious individuals.
On that note, I’d like to thank our immediate past president, Heather Reid, for her outstanding leadership and the guidance she provided me personally when I held the position of conference chair. I also want to extend my appreciation to Heather Sheridan, who has left academe to take up more solemn pursuits, for her years of devoted service as secretary-treasurer. Other outgoing members of the Executive Council to thank include Ivo Jirasek and Carwyn Jones as members at large, and Andy Miah, our long-time webmaster. I would like to welcome the new members of the Executive Council: Doug McLaughlin, secretary-treasurer, Heather Reid and Stephen Finn, members at large, and Emily Ryall, the new webmaster. Those who continue to serve on the Executive include: Alun Hardman, conference chair, Nao Masumoto and Cesar Torres, members at large, John Russell, JPS editor, Terry Roberts, elections chair and Sharon Stoll, newsletter editor. Milan Hosta, Doug McLauglin and Charlene Weaving are this year’s members of the honors, awards and future sites committee.
In my 26 years as a member of the PSSS and IAPS, I have seen the ebb and flow and maturation of sport philosophy as a respected academic discipline. It is encouraging to witness the growth of our field in more countries, under new organizations, as affiliated with several national and international scholarly bodies, in regional venues and academic societies, and through numerous publications by veteran and emerging scholars. Although I was unable to attend the recent annual meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, by the looks of the program and from personal accounts I heard, the conference was a tremendous success. Much appreciation is extended to the hard work of Alun Hardman and Milan Hosta and the dedicated site organizing team on the ground. This meeting and next year’s conference in Tokyo offer evidence to the flourishing of sport philosophy in different parts of the world. And of course it goes without saying that what fuels these positive trends are the hundreds of committed students, athletes, coaches, teachers, professors and researchers who contribute to the development and prosperity of sport philosophy. It is gratifying to know that IAPS has been and continues to be in the forefront of these positive changes.
During the current period of transition, I and the Executive are attending to a few issues I’d like to share with you. While our online membership registration and renewal payment system is being re-formatted, I would ask existing and prospective members to please complete the application form and send your dues checks to either the new secretary-treasurer, Doug McLaughlin, or one of the two member agents by post (snail mail). The form and their addresses may be found at the IAPS website (www.iaps.net). If you would, please attend to your new or renewed membership as soon as possible, the deadline was October 1, 2007.
Some members received final JPS subscription notices from Human Kinetics. I was informed by HK that the notices were sent out in error due to a coding mistake and members should disregard the letter. Those in good standing will continue to receive their copy of JPS as part of their membership in a timely manner and should not receive a second renewal notice. We are also in discussion with HK regarding the placing of early back issues of the JPS online and a new association management service being offered by HK.
The Executive recently endorsed a symposium on drugs and sport and Sigmund Loland as an invited keynote speaker at next year’s ICSEMIS (formerly the pre-Olympic Congress) convention in Beijing. These sessions are made possible by our affiliation with ICSSPE and much appreciation is extended to Mike McNamee who is the IAPS representative to ICSSPE. We are also considering whether or not to affiliate with the American Kinesiology Association. Heather Reid, Jim Fry and Doug McLaughlin are coordinating sport philosophy sessions in different regional conferences of the American Philosophical Association in 2007 and 2008, and Ben Letson who is doing the same is in contact with the organizing committee of the 2008 World Congress of Philosophy in Korea (the latter due to our affiliation with FISP). Alun Hardman, Cesar Torres and a yet to be named graduate student are part of an ad hoc committee to investigate travel grants for student members. These important initiatives ensure that IAPS and sport philosophy are well represented in different national and international venues.
I am pleased to announce that Mike McNamee is this year’s Distinguished Scholar recipient. Those familiar with Mike’s consistent, high quality research know that this is a well deserved honor and we look forward to his address in Tokyo next year. It also gives me great pleasure to announce that Nick Dixon, Sharon Stoll and Spencer Wertz are this year’s Distinguished Service award recipients. Each of these exceptional individuals has devoted many years of selfless service to the Association in several different capacities, and for this we are all grateful.
In closing, my main goal over the next two years is to continue making sure that IAPS is the flagship organization that represents and promotes sport philosophy on an international scale. In part, this means new lines of communication and relationships must be forged between regional and global organizations and IAPS, efforts must be sought to attract new members from familiar and less well known places around the world, the JPS remains the gold standard journal publication in sport philosophy, and any interests related to sport philosophy with an international bent lead directly to the IAPS address. I encourage the membership individually and collectively to help fulfill these objectives and promote the association within your own spheres of influence and beyond.
Finally, assuming this position is one of the highlights of my professional career. I have always considered the members of IAPS to be more than just academic colleagues. Believe it or not, I have never met an IAPS member I didn’t like. I look forward to the challenges ahead and would welcome your thoughts and comments on strengthening our organization, so please write to me at: danny.rosenberg@brocku.ca
The web site is migrating to a new server and should be up and running in about a month. Our new webmaster is Emily Ryall at eryall@glos.ac.uk.
Hello everyone, the online payment system is migrating and as soon as it is up and running I will send a message to everyone. Attached here is an old membership form and if you want to mail me a check, you may send it to: Douglas McLaughlin, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330-8287.
There are two major items of information for members.
A special section in the fall 2008 issue devoted to Bernard Suits' work in philosophy of sport and related areas. Mark Holowchak has kindly agreed to guest edit this section. I expect this issue will be a commemoration and celebration of the late Professor Suits' contributions to philosophy of sport and to our journal. I would be very happy to see the entire issue devoted to critical discussion of Suits' work, so I encourage submissions.
The International Association of Philosophy of Sport invites papers on the work of Bernard Suits to celebrate his life and work and to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Grasshopper. Over the decades, Suits wrote abundantly and substantially on philosophy-of-sport issuesmost notably on play, games, and sport. His most celebrated workThe Grasshopperhas become a classic in philosophy of sport. We invite papers to be submitted on any topic that concerns Suits’ contribution to philosophy-of-sport issuesincluding papers on play, games, or sport. Papers will be reviewed by guest editor M. Andrew Holowchak and JPS editor John Russell. Accepted papers will be published in the fall issue (2008) of Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. To be considered for this issue, completed papers must be submitted no later than March 31, 2008 through the on-line review system for the JPS at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hk_jps .
The second major item of information is that the fall 2007 issue of the journal has been published (Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 2007). The electronic version has been available on-line since September, and by the time this has been published members should have received their hard copies in the mail. Thanks to guest editor Gabriela Tymowski for her work on the children and sport special section. She, Angela Schneider, and I convened a conference on children and sport at the University of Western Ontario in the spring this year, from which these papers were drawn. The conference was a success, which is evident, in part, in the quality of the papers that have been published on what has been a neglected area in sport philosophy. See also Alister Browne's epistemological debunking of the slogan "good pitching beats good hitting" and Gunnar Breivik's thoughtful application of Heidegger and Dreyfus to understanding skilled motor behaviour.
Good Pitching Beats Good Hitting
Skillful Coping in Everyday Life and in Sport: A Critical Examination of
the Views of Heidegger and Dreyfus :Gunnar Breivik
Do Children Have a Right To Play? Michael W. Austin
Sport, Parental Autonomy, and Children’s Right to an Open Future
Sport and Moral Education in Plato’s Republic
De-emphasizing Competition in Organized Youth Sport: Misdirected Reforms
and Misled Children Cesar Torres and Peter Hager
100 Heroes: People in Sports Who Make This a Better World v(by
Richard Lapchick, with Jessica Barrtter, Jennifer Brenden, Stacy Martin,Drew
Tyler, and Brian Wright). Reviewed by Jeffrey Fry
Philosophical Kinanthropology: The meeting point of philosophy, body
and movement (by Ivo Jirásek). Reviewed by Irena Martin
The Honors, Awards and Future Sites Committee is pleased to announce that the 36th Annual IAPS Conference for 2008 will be held in Tokyo, Japan between Wednesday, September 10th and Monday, September 15th. The conference will be held in conjunction with and receive support from the Japan Society for the Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education which will be celebrating its 30th anniversary as a society. The venue will combine accommodations and the conference in two nearby facilities, the international exchange building and the accommodations building.
The 2008 Conference will be hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan University. Alun Hardman will serve as the Conference Chair, and Prof. Dr. Naofumi Masumoto will Chair the Site Organizing Committee. A conference website will soon be posted at the IAPS web-site (www.iaps.net/), and additional information will be forthcoming in future newsletters and via the e-mail listserve. For now, please note in your calendar Tokyo, Japan, September 10th to 15th, 2008, for what should be a spectacular and inspiring IAPS meeting.
(Editor note). Dr. Naofumi Masumoto has submitted a plan, see attached and a tentative outline of the conference. Check it out... Looks like a great trip and the housing and food appear to be very reasonable.The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 36th annual 2008 IAPS meeting. The conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan between September 10th and 15th, 2008. Details about the conference may be found in the IAPS fall 2007 newsletter. 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. Graduate students and emerging scholars are encouraged to submit works in progress. Abstracts should be 300-500 words long and must be received by April 1, 2008. The preferred mode of submission is by e-mail. Please send the 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 the Conference Chair at: ahardman@uwic.ac.uk
Please send hard copies (only if e-mail is not available) to:
Alun
Hardman
The
Cardiff School of Sport
University of Wales Institute Cardiff,
Cyncoed Rd.,
Cardiff,
CF23
6XD
United Kingdom
FAX: +44 (0)29 2041 6589/6768
Abstracts will be reviewed by a Program Committee of three IAPS peers. Contributors will be notified about the status of their abstracts by May 14, 2008.
ICSSPE
Dr. Herbert Haag kindly offers all ICSSPE members
now the "Dictionary. Sport, Physical Education and Sport Science", edited by
Haag, H. & Haag, G. for a special price of EURO 10,00.You can simply order the
sport dictionary online at www.sportdictionary.de (ICSSPE Members please
indicate your Membership number) or if you require additional information
please contact Prof. em. Dr. Herbert Haag at info@sportdictionary.de or call
+49.89.997.459.02. The dictionary will then be sent directly to you by surface
mail. Allow 1-4 weeks delivery time depending on the region of the world and
the speed of your own postal system.
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About IAPSEstablished in 1972 as the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport with its 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: Danny Rosenberg , danny.rosenberg@brocku.ca Secretary Treasurer: Douglas McLaughlin, douglas.mclaughlin@csun.eduJournal Editor: John Russell, Canada, Jsrussell@shaw.ca Conference Chair: Alun Hardman, ahardman@uwic.ac.uk Elections Chair: Terrence Roberts, Australia, Terence.Roberts@vu.edu.au Members at Large: Naofumi Masumoto, Japan, naomasumoto@tmu.ac.jp Heather Reid, USA, reid@morningside.edu Steven Finn, USA, finns@seattleu.edu Cesar Torres, USA, crtorres@brockport.edu Webmaster: Emily Ryall, eryall@glos.ac.uk Newsletter Editor: Sharon Kay Stoll, USA, sstoll@uidaho.edu |