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  1. Sport, rules, and values: philosophical investigations into the nature of sport.Graham McFee - 2004 - New York: Routledge.
    Sport, Rules and Values presents a philosophical perspective on some issues concerning the character of sport. Central questions for the text are motivated from real life sporting examples as described in newspaper reports. For instance, the (supposed) subjectivity of umpiring decisions is explored via an examination of the judging ice-skating at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games of 2002. Throughout, the presentation is rich in concrete cases from sporting situations, including baseball, football, and soccer. While granting the constitutive nature of (...)
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    On Sport and the Philosophy of Sport: A Wittgensteinian Approach.Graham McFee - 2015 - New York: Routledge.
    What is the 'philosophy of sport'? What does one do to count as a practitioner in the philosophy of sport? What conception of philosophy underpins the answer to those questions? In this important new book, leading sport philosopher Graham McFee draws on a lifetime's philosophical inquiry to reconceptualise the field of study. The book covers important topics such as Olympism, the symbolisation of argument, and epistemology and aesthetics in sport research; and concludes with a section of 'applied' sport philosophy by (...)
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    Understanding Dance.Graham Mcfee - 1993 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (4):644-646.
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    Making Sense of the Philosophy of Sport.Graham McFee - 2013 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (4):412-429.
    Beginning from an earlier claim of mine that there was really no such area of study as the philosophy of sport, Part One of the paper reconsiders the place previously given to David Best’s distinction between purposive sports and aesthetic sports. In light of a famous cricketing event in the 1977 contest between England and Australia (‘The Ashes’), in which Derek Randall turned a cartwheel after taking the winning catch, the paper clarifies that not all aesthetically-pleasing events taking place in (...)
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    Fairness, Epistemology, and Rules: A Prolegomenon to a Philosophy of Officiating?Graham McFee - 2011 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 38 (2):229-253.
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    Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sports Research: An Epistemology of Sport.Graham McFee - 2009 - Routledge.
    The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation. In this groundbreaking study, Graham McFee argues that sound high-level research into sport requires a sound rationale for one’s methodological choices, and that such a rationale requires an understanding of the connection between the practicalities of researching sport and the philosophical assumptions which underpin them. By examining (...)
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    Philosophy and the 'Dazzling Ideal' of Science.Graham McFee - 2019 - Springer Verlag.
    Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science. In this book, Graham McFee defends the claims of philosophy against attempts to minimize either philosophy’s possibility or its importance by deploying a contrast with what Wittgenstein characterized as the “dazzling ideal” of science. This ‘dazzling ideal’ incorporates both the imagined completeness of scientific explanation—whereby completing its project would leave nothing unexplained—and the exceptionless character of the associated conception of causality. On such a (...)
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  8. The artistic and the aesthetic.Graham McFee - 2005 - British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (4):368-387.
    The paper addresses the intuitions of aestheticians concerning a fundamental contrast between the judgement, appreciation, and interest appropriate to artworks and those judgements, appreciations, and interests appropriate to all the other (non-art) cases of aesthetic interest. Then terms such as beauty must amount to something different in art-cases from that in other (aesthetic) cases. For the fact of being an artwork is transfigurational, allowing artistic properties to be (truly) ascribed. In arguing against the univocality of terms such as beauty (by (...)
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    Defusing Dualism: John Martin on Dance Appreciation.Graham Mcfee - 2013 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71 (2):187-194.
  10. Are there philosophical issues with respect to sport (other than ethical ones)?Graham McFee - 1998 - In M. J. McNamee & S. J. Parry (eds.), Ethics and sport. New York: E & FN Spon. pp. 3.
     
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    A Not-So-Beautiful Game.Graham McFee - 2015 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 9 (2):166-181.
    Although football is often referred to as ‘the beautiful game’, to take that idea very seriously — by aestheticizing the target of spectating — is to misunderstand a purposive sport such as football. Yet such a view seems required by Stephen Mumford’s endorsement of the purist spectator, in contrast to the partisan, as attending to ‘… only aesthetic aspects of sport’. But, first, not all non-purposive appreciation is thereby aesthetic appreciation, as Mumford assumes. And, second, while a technical understanding of (...)
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    The Intrinsic Value of Sport: A Reply to Culbertson.Graham McFee - 2009 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 3 (1):19-29.
    Leon Culbertson's recent contribution, 'Does Sport Have Intrinsic Value?' objects to the account of the value of sport as intrinsic value I had developed in my Sport, Rules and Values ; in particular, as this occurs in my argument that the value of some sports resided in the possibility of their functioning as a moral laboratory. He identifies two accounts of intrinsic value; and shows that neither would fit my purposes seamlessly. He urges that my account of the place of (...)
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    Normativity, Justification,and (MacIntyrean) Practices: Some Thoughts on Methodologyfor the Philosophy of Sport.Graham McFee - 2004 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 31 (1):15-33.
    (2004). Normativity, Justification,and (MacIntyrean) Practices: Some Thoughts on Methodologyfor the Philosophy of Sport. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 15-33.
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    Officiating in Aesthetic Sports.Graham McFee - 2013 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 40 (1):1-17.
    In 1974, David Best rightly contrasted purposive sports (exemplified by most sports) with aesthetic sports; and recently I was careful to exempt the issues for aesthetic sports from my critique of the prospects for an all-embracing philosophy of officiating. While discretion plays a part in umpiring or refereeing in both kinds of sports, it is especially important for aesthetic sports (such as gymnastic vaulting, ice-skating or diving), where the manner of execution determines victory. Here, it is urged that the issue (...)
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    Free Will.Graham McFee - 2000 - Routledge.
    The question whether human choices and actions are causally determined or are in a way free, and the implications of this for our moral, personal and social lives continues to challenge philosophers. This book explores the determinist rejection of free will through a detailed exposition of the central determinist argument and a consideration of the responses to each of its premises. At every stage familiar examples and case studies help frame and ground the argument. The discussion is at no time (...)
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    Wittgenstein on art and aspects.Graham McFee - 1999 - Philosophical Investigations 22 (3):262–284.
    For some aestheticians, Wittgenstein's notion of _seeing as (or aspect perception) could be used to explain perception of artworks as artworks (artistic appreciation). This paper urges that the idea of aspect perception cannot provide such a model, even for a perceptualist about artistic appreciation (like the author). First, this would be inconsistent with Wittgenstein's argumentative strategy in key passages in _Philosophical Investigations Part Two. Second, the characteristics of aspect perception make it unsuitable as a model, whatever Wittgenstein's intentions. Moreover (one (...)
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  17. The Best Way to Locate a Purpose in Sport: Considerations in Aesthetics?Leon Culbertson & Graham McFee - 2016 - Aesthetic Investigations 1 (2):191-213.
    The paper highlights the centrality of some concepts from philosophy of sport for philosophical aesthetics. Once Best conclusively answered negatively the fundamental question, ‘Can any sport-form be an artform?’, what further issues remained at the intersection of these parts of philosophy? Recent work revitalizing this interface, especially Mumford’s Watching Sport, contested Best’s fundamental distinction between purposive and aesthetic sports, and insisted that purist viewers are taking an aesthetic interest in sporting events. Here, we defend Best’s conception against considerations Mumford hoped (...)
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  18. Dance.Graham McFee - 2000 - In Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. New York: Routledge.
     
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    The historical character of art: A re-appraisal.Graham McFee - 1992 - British Journal of Aesthetics 32 (4):307-319.
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    The Surface Grammar of Dreaming.Graham McFee - 19934 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94:95 - 115.
    Graham McFee; VI*—The Surface Grammar of Dreaming, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 95–116, https://doi.org/10.10.
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  21. JME Referees in 2000.Mary Lou Arnold, Cary Buzzelli, David Carr, Shui Che Fok, Eileen Francis, Sarah Golden, Maria Cristina Moreno Gutiérrez, Graham McFee, Larry Nucci & Nona Lyons - 2001 - Journal of Moral Education 30 (2).
     
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    Art, Audience and Understanding: the Case of Dance.Graham McFee - 2003 - Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 15 (27-28).
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    Audiences Appreciating Dances.Graham McFee - 2019 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 44 (1):92-116.
    Midwest Studies In Philosophy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 92-116, December 2019.
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    Art, essence and Wittgenstein.Graham McFee - unknown
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    Art, Education, and Life-Issues.Graham McFee - 1988 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 22 (3):37.
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    ‘Adam made me’.Graham McFee - 1978 - British Journal of Aesthetics 18 (4):373-377.
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    Art, understanding and historical character: a contribution to analytic aesthetics.Graham McFee - unknown
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    Artistic Value: Its scope and limits (and a little something about sport).Graham McFee - unknown
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    Back to the future: A reply to Sharpe.Graham McFee - 1995 - British Journal of Aesthetics 35 (3):278-283.
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    Cognitivism and dance experience.Graham McFee - unknown
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    Criticism and perception.Graham McFee - 1986 - British Journal of Aesthetics 26 (1):26-38.
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    Collingwood.Graham McFee - 1992 - Idealistic Studies 22 (2):144-162.
    Collingwood’s work has proved a rich source of ideas for aestheticians, and also fruitful in respect of metaphysical ideas; most especially, suggestive in ways in which a non-realist theory of meaning and understanding might be developed within contemporary directions in the philosophy of language. But these two areas of interest are traditionally seen as importantly different, as depending on different aspects of Collingwood’s works. This paper argues that a potentially fruitful line of development for aesthetics comes from importing into our (...)
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    Davies' Replies. A Response.Graham McFee - 1990 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 38 (1):177-184.
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  34. Defending 'the Artist's Theory': Wollheim's Lost Idea Regained?Graham McFee - 2010 - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 47 (1):3-26.
    The paper considers an argument of Richard Wollheim’s, originally presented in a 1976 symposium with Goodman and Wiggins, which disappeared when the symposium contribution was ‘reprinted’ in the supplementary essays to the expanded edition of Art and Its Objects (Wollheim, 1980). It lays out the argument’s original context, locating its objectives by means of a comparison with Goodman’s autographic/allographic distinction, with its attendant discussion of the ‘history of production’, and presents Wollheim’s defence of ‘the artist’s theory’. This defence coheres in (...)
     
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    Defending ‘The Artist’s Theory’: Wollheim’s Lost Idea Regained?Graham McFee - 2020 - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 47 (1):3.
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    Ethical considerations and voluntary informed consent in research in sport.Graham McFee - unknown
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    Freedom, justice and illusion.Graham McFee - 2004 - Res Publica 10 (1):69-78.
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    Gary Kemp and Gabriele M. Mras, eds., Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation: Seeing-As and Seeing-In.Graham McFee - 2020 - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 54 (2):293.
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    How to Be an Idealist.Graham McFee - 1981 - Idealistic Studies 11 (3):280-285.
    Idealism has not been well treated by recent philosophy in the Anglo-American Analytic tradition. When I was an undergraduate the situation did not differ markedly from that in Ryle’s time, fifty years previously.
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    How to Be an Idealist (II).Graham McFee - 1985 - Idealistic Studies 15 (1):41-53.
    1. In his important article, “A Defense of McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time,” Michael Dummett identifies, as a central assumption in McTaggart’s refutation of the reality of time, a view of what it is to be real, namely that, “A description of what there really is, as it really is, must be independent of any particular point of view.” For ease of exposition, let us call this “the Realist Assumption.” Following Dummett’s lead, I have argued that such an (...)
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    How to do philosophy: a Wittgensteinian reading of Wittgenstein.Graham McFee - 2015 - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
    Why should the philosophical achievement of Ludwig Wittgenstein be taken seriously in the twenty-first century? This text answers this question by elaborating the distinctive therapeutic conception of philosophy defended in Wittgenstein's later work, typified by Philosophical Investigations. Here, Wittgenstein's highly contextual, problem-specific and person-specific conception of the philosophical project is clarified with reference to his own writings. In so doing, this text challenges contemporary failures to properly acknowledge all publications from those writings as posthumous, Nachlass (Legacy), or to treat judiciously (...)
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    It's not a game: The place of philosophy in the study of sport.Graham McFee - unknown
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    Interrogating philosophy?Graham McFee - 1997 - Res Publica 3 (2):239-246.
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    Meaning and the art-status of ‘music alone’.Graham Mcfee - 1997 - British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (1):31-46.
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    Necessity and Language.Graham Mcfee - 1986 - Philosophical Books 27 (4):229-231.
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    Olympism and Sport's Intrinsic Value.Graham McFee - 2012 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 6 (2):211-231.
    An account of the intrinsic value of sport from previous work (McFee 2004; 2009) is sketched, presenting it as a ?moral laboratory?, as well as a scholarly attribution of such an account to Pierre de Coubertin, in explanation of his view of the moral educative potential of the Olympic Games (McFee 2011a).Then aspects of that account of intrinsic value are elaborated, and its educative possibility is defended, along with the possibility of its generalising beyond the sports field or stadium: these (...)
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    Occasions for Making Sense of Sport: Celebrating Morgan’s View.Graham McFee - 2018 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 12 (4):435-452.
    In endorsing a conventionalism about the rules of sport, Morgan fails (according to his critics) to ground the normativity of such rules, especially once the historical specificity of their invention and implementation is granted. But how can normativity be grounded in the contingencies of the sporting practices of particular times and places? In particular, do Morgan’s concerns with dependence on ‘conventions’ flow only from the choice of options apparently on offer: roughly the choice between a realism (to reflect ‘facts of (...)
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    Obituary: Professor David Best.Graham McFee - 2013 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (3):293 - 294.
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    On the interpretation of Wittgenstein.Graham McFee - 1981 - Mind 90 (360):592-599.
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    Psychology, Aesthetics and Richard Wollheim.Graham McFee - 1982 - Philosophical Inquiry 4 (2):99-109.
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