Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone: Because It's There

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Stephen E. Schmid
John Wiley & Sons, Jan 13, 2011 - Philosophy - 256 pages
Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers.
  • Represents the first collection of essays to exclusively address the many philosophical aspects of climbing
  • Includes essays that challenge commonly accepted views of climbing and climbing ethics
  • Written accessibly, this book will appeal to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers
  • Includes a foreword written by Hans Florine
  • Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2010
 

Selected pages

Contents

Why Risk Climbing
11
Is Climbing Worth It?
24
Why Climb?
37
Cultivating the Climber
65
Values of Dangerous Sport
81
Mountaineering and the Value of SelfSufficiency
93
An Authentic Climbing Experience
106
Zen and the Art of Climbing
117
The Ethics of Free Soloing
158
Environmental
169
Philosophy on Varied Terrain
181
Are You Experienced? What You Dont Know About
195
What Is a Climbing Grade Anyway?
206
The Beauty of a Climb
218
Climbing Glossary
230
Notes on Contributors
237

Climbing Ethics
131
Why You May Be Wrong
145
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Editor
Stephen E. Schmid is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Rock County. His doctoral work was in philosophy of mind and his current research focuses on motivation in sport and education. Schmid has been playing in the mountains and on rock for more than 20 years.

Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).

Bibliographic information

TitleClimbing - Philosophy for Everyone: Because It's There
Philosophy for Everyone
EditorStephen E. Schmid
ContributorsFritz Allhoff, Hans Florine
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444341464, 9781444341461
Length256 pages
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Philosophy / General
  
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