IAPS Newsletter The Official Newsletter of the International Association of Philosophy of Sport 2004, March

In this issue,

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

1. President's Message

2. IAPS Conference 2004, September 16-19

3. IAPS 2004 Conference Call for Papers

4. News from Journal of Philosophy of Sport

5. Other News, Announcements

6. IAPS Membership Forms.

7. About IAPS and Executive Board

President’s Message

Dear IAPS Members,

I can’t believe the year is nearly over and the IAPS Conference in Texas will be soon upon us.

I want to thank Spencer Wertz for being so accommodating in setting up the venue for the conference in September.  This year’s conference should be interesting and exciting as we have two outstanding keynote speakers, Bernard Suits to start us off, and David Vanderwerken to close the conference.  Suits will revisit the Grasshopper with, "Sudden Death Playoff: Grasshopper versus Grim Reaper."  And Vanderwerken will discuss playfulness in Modern American literature.  Since we didn’t have quite as many submissions as last year, it should make it easier for us not to have make so many choices of what to attend.

Several of our members have been invited to present papers at the 2004 Pre-Olympic Congress, in Thessaloniki,, August 6-11. The theme of the conference is: Sports Science Through the Ages: Challenges in the New Millennium. This is quite an honor and it is good that IAPS will have significant representation.

IAPS also has representation ion the Executive Board of ICSSPE (The International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education).  Dr. Karin Volkwein, Professor of Cultural Studies at West Chester University, has served on the board, but her term expires this year.  To retain representation, on behalf of IAPS and with the approval of the IAPS Executive Board, I nominated Heather Sheridan, Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethics, Equity and Sport, University of Gloucestershire, to fill the vacancy left by Karin.  The nomination was duly registered, but as this writing, I have no word regarding the results.  Thanks to Karin for her work on the board and for urging our representation be continued.

I was contacted by the Director of The International Child Art Foundation inquiring about possible collaborations.  ICAF organizes the world's most popular art program for children, and their 2004-2007 Arts Olympiad will link art and sport.  I, along with the members of the IAPS Executive Board, were unsure of how we might collaborate;  I did invite them to present a workshop and/or exhibit their art at the IAPS Conference in Texas, but it does not seem to fit their schedule.

 It has been impressive how many calls for papers for conferences and anthologies that have come across my email in the past year, too numerous to mention. I believe these have all been sent to the IAPS listserv.  This is testimony to the significance of the field of philosophy of sport and the dedication of our members to its development. I am looking forward to seeing you all at the IAPS Conference in Texas in September.

IAPS 2004 CONFERENCE
Call for Papers

Jan Boxill, President-Elect

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 Sept. 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 reid@morningside.edu
Please send hard copies (only if e-mail is not available) to:

Heather Reid

Philosophy Department

Morningside College

1501 Morningside Ave.

Sioux City, IA  51103
 USA
FAX: 712-274-5101

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 32^nd Annual Meeting of the IAPS will be September 16^th (Thursday)-19^th (Sunday) at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas—just five minutes north of DFW International Airport.  (Free airport shuttle both to and from DFW.)  For a virtual tour of the facilities, log onto www.dfwlakes.hilton.com   The guest accommodations and the modified meeting package rates per person per night are:  a single room $205, a double room $165, and early arrival/stayover is $129 (which doesn’t include meals) and people can double up and split this cost.  The rates initially sound high, but they are quite reasonable when you see what all is included—transportation, breakfast, lunch, refreshments in the mornings and afternoons, on-property recreation, and service charges.  (Also, our meeting rooms are covered in this cost.)   You will need to plan on staying here, for there are no other accommodations except for similar facilities around the airport.  (Moreover, there is a charge for a day guest [someone who does not stay on property overnight] of $75 per person per day.) 

To book rooms, go to http:// www.dfwlakes.hilton.com.  Phone number, address, and email address available.  Identify yourself as a member of IAPS 2004 Conference to get rates. Look for a link at the www.dfwlakes.hilton.com site for IAPS members, it should answer all of your questions for hotel registration.  Remember that hotel registration is separate from the conference registration.

As is our custom, Saturday afternoon will be set aside for recreation (horseback riding, golf (7 nearby courses to choose from), tennis, fishing, racquetball, volleyball, jogging, etc.) or shopping (Grapevine Mall which is nearby is one of the largest malls in the US and Pro Bass Fishing and Hunting Store)--to which the Hilton will provide transportation.   

Your dinners will be included in the Conference Fee ($125 by September 1^st, 2004, and late fee of $25 US, after September 1^st, $150):  Registration Form click here.  REMEMBER: Conference registration is separate from the Hotel reservation.

 Thursday dinner at Austin Ranch (within walking distance from the hotel) will be Texas barbecue with all the trimmings and an open cash bar.

Friday dinner at the Wertz’s mini-ranch in Parker County (a large bus will be provided) will be Uncle Julio’s famous Tex-Mex catered dinner, and beer and wine will be provided.

Saturday dinner will be the conference banquet at the Hilton (which serves excellent meals) and a wine list will be made available for those who want wine with their meal.

The program and detailed schedule will be available at a later date, so for now  I suggest that  you check out the Hilton website, submit a paper, and prepare yourselves for another Texas extravaganza!

Questions:  email Spencer at: skllw@flash.net or                 s.wertz@tcu.edu 

News from Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

Nicholas Dixon, Editor

Volume XXXI, Issue 1 (Spring 2004) is ready to go to press with seven articles and three reviews.  Four of the articles and two of the reviews are by first-time authors in JPS, which is a welcome sign.  Vol. XXXI, Issue 2 (Fall 2004) will contain a special section of invited papers on sport and moral realism.  Bill Morgan, making a welcome return to JPS duties, will guest edit the section.  The issue also has plenty of space for general submissions, so don’t hesitate send your recent work. 

Despite the unfortunate publication by Human Kinetics in the Fall 2003 issue of an outdated set of contributors’ guidelines that did not mention our journal online review system (JORS), over half of our submissions since then have still been sent through JORS.  I encourage you all to submit your papers through JORS, which saves time and postage costs for everyone involved.  The site is occasionally down for maintenance, but my experience is that it is always up and running within a few hours, and I urge you to simply wait and try again later if this happens.  The url of the JORS site for online submissions is http://www.humankinetics.com/jors/.

Announcements:

ICSSPE Newsletter

If you would like to make a submission to the next issue of ICSSPE's newsletter,  which will feature Sport Science Developments: An Olympic Perspective, please send it to tdevine@icsspe.org by no later than April 16th.

Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress

Preparations for the 2004 Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece, are well underway.  Don't forget that the deadline for earlybird registrations is March 31st, so submit your registrations now.  We look forward to seeing you in Greece from August 6th to 11th.

ICSSPE Online Shop

ICSSPE Online Shop.  Publications can be purchased onlineusing visa and mastercard.

British Philosophy of Sport Association 1^st Annual Conference,  

The British Philosophy of Sport Association invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2004 BPSA conference.  The conference will take place on 24-25 June, 2004, at the University of Gloucestershire, UK, hosted by the Centre for Ethics, Equity & Sport.  

For more information: http://www.philosophyofsport.org.uk/.

Chess and Philosophy

Interested in submitting a paper in the area of chess and philosophy,  The proposed book will be targeted for an audience of philosophers, chess players, and students/hobbyists of chess or philosophy. It will be geared to suit Open Court's "Popular Culture and Philosophy" series, though the finished volume, depending on the appropriateness of the papers, may be open to publication in Open Court's
larger collection. Contact the editor:

Benjamin Hale
Philosophy Department
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794
bhale@ic.sunysb.edu