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    Obituary: Professor Graham McFee 22nd February 1951 – 10th October 2023.Leon Culbertson - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):588-590.
    Some people are, as it were, too big for their obituaries, and so it is with Graham McFee, who died on 10th October 2023. There is a great deal that should be said here about his life, work and ach...
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    Looking back over the last 8 years.Andrew Edgar - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):449-451.
    This is my final editorial, and my final issue as editor of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, so it inevitably feels like an occasion for a brief retrospective.In my first editorial (Edgar 2017), I ant...
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    Looking Back Over the Last 8 Years.Andrew Edgar - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):1-3.
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    Heidegger and the possibilities of ‘authenticity’ in sports participation.Neslihan Filiz - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):511-526.
    The aim of this paper is to analyze the possibility of ‘authenticity’, in other words, ‘authentic being’ in sports, based on the ideas in Heidegger’s Being and Time (Sein und Zeit). In order to do that, I firstly explain Dasein and its existentialia (which are significant for this paper: being-in-the-world, thrownness, understanding, attunement, and possibilities), the concept of ‘care’, and Heideggerian understanding of authenticity. Then, I examine the possibilities of authenticity in sports participation, and I look at some related studies (...)
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    Embodied experience, embodied advantage, and the inclusion of transgender athletes in competitive sport: expanded framework, criticisms, and policy recommendations.Francisco Javier Lopez Frias & Cesar R. Torres - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):527-547.
    In a previous paper entitled ‘Beyond Physiology: Embodied Experience, Embodied Advantage, and the Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport,’ we claim that analyses of the inclusion or exclusion of transgender athletes in competitive sport must go beyond physiological criteria and incorporate the notions of embodied experience and embodied advantage. Our stance has recently been challenged as impractical and excessively exclusionary. In this paper, we address these challenges and build upon them to expand on the policy implications of our original (...)
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    Book symposium on Return of the grasshopper: games, leisure and the good life in the third millennium.Francisco Javier López Frías, Christopher C. Yorke, Filip Kobiela, Christopher Bartel, Gwen Bradford, Scott Kretchmar, J. S. Russell & William J. Morgan - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):548-587.
    Bernard Suits’ groundbreaking work, The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, has profoundly shaped the philosophy of sport. Its sequel, Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure, and the Good Life in the Third Millennium, released in October 2022, enriches scholarly understandings of Suits’ views on games, emphasizing the normative aspects of gameplay and its impact on people’s pursuit of the good life. In this book symposium, world-leading Suits scholars analyze the Suitsian conception of gameplay and its relevance to his views on (...)
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  7. What is a metagame?Michael Hemmingsen - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):452-467.
    The concept of metagames can be of use to philosophers of sport and games. However, the term “metagame” is used throughout the literature in several different, distinct senses, few of which are clearly defined, and as a result there remains ambiguity about what, precisely, this term means. In this paper, I attempt to disambiguate the term metagame. I have come across at least four different senses of “metagame” in academic literature about games. Of these four senses, most relevant to philosophers (...)
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  8. A philosophical look at running friendships.Douglas Hochstetler - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):483-496.
    Friendship constitutes an integral part of human flourishing. Aristotle (1996) famously wrote, ‘For no one would choose to live without friends, but possessing all other good things’ (p. 205). Members of our respective practice communities (MacIntyre, 1984) understand and appreciate our passion for running or basketball, tennis or cycling. The friends we develop through sport, and herein I focus on running, have the potential to help us cultivate human flourishing in the Aristotelian sense. Highlighting this point, Austin (2007) writes that (...)
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    Why the rules do not prohibit cheating in sports.Sinclair A. MacRae - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):497-510.
    The idea that cheaters cannot (really) win in sports persists among philosophers, mainly due to the lingering influence of Bernard Suits’ logical incompatibility thesis. In this article I explain why the thesis does not apply to sports. I argue that the question whether cheating can be prohibited in sports is empirical rather than analytic, as is the case for games subject to the thesis. Thus, sports rules do not make cheating impossible and since game officials cannot always detect cheating and (...)
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    Meaning and morality in boxing.Michael-John Turp - 2025 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (5):468-482.
    While sport is often pursued more for reasons of meaning than morality, philosophers have had far less to say about the former. How are the ends of sport related to meaning and morality? I address the question through the case study of boxing. One reason for this approach is that the moral status of boxing is contested, which makes it an interesting candidate for immoral, meaningful activity. Drawing on Wolf’s hybrid account of meaning in life, I argue that boxing can (...)
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