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Ethics in Sport?
Following previous discussions on the blog about the nature of sport, I came across a past episode of Philosophy Talk. You can listen to this online at and the same page has a range of links useful to those…
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New Author – Emily Ryall
Hello everyone, and thanks to Dave for trusting that I’m not going to abuse my privileges as a site author. For those of you that are unaware of the fact: believe it or not, the Sport, Health and Social Care…
Defining Sport
ALSO SEE OUR SHORT VIDEO INTERVIEWS ON PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT AT: As promised: a longer consideration of the nature of ‘Sport’. This is by my colleague, Dr Emily Ryall, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy over at the Faculty of Sport, Health…
Sports, ethics and fairness
Further to recent darts entries, I have been thinking about whether engagement in sport is something that can foster ethical virtues. It has the rules, and ethics borrows phrases from the world of sports all the time – such as’playing…
Darts, Sport and Classics
While reading around darts, I came across this quote from darts commentator Sid Waddell who once said (of Eric Bristow – “the crafty cockney”) : ‘When Alexander the Great was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no more…
Darts a sport?
See the discussion of what a sport is (and whether darts counts as one)at: as well – as that offers more detail than this short version… OK – guess what I got for Christmas… As hinted at by the image,…