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The Philosophy of Football

New York, NY: Routledge (2019)

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  1. Two concepts of sporting excellence.Steffen Borge - 2024 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 51 (2):302-315.
    This paper deals with the question of whether nature sports are to be counted among the (traditional) sports and Kevin Krein’s recent argument, based on sporting excellence, as to why they should. Krein argues that sports as such are ultimately about sporting excellence and because both so-called traditional sports and nature sports fulfil that criterion, nature sports belong in the sport domain. Here, I show that Krein’s argument rests on an equivocation between two concepts of sporting excellence. Sporting excellence in (...)
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  • Who Cares About Winning?Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):248-265.
    Why do we so often care about the outcomes of games when nothing is at stake? There is a paradox here, much like the paradox of fiction, which concerns why we care about the fates and threats of merely fictional beings. I argue that the paradox threatens to overturn a great deal of what philosophers have thought about caring, severing its connection to value and undermining its moral weight. I defend a solution to the paradox that draws on Kendall Walton's (...)
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  • Book Symposium. Steffen Borge, The Philosophy of Football.Steffen Borge, William J. Morgan, Murray Smith & Brian Weatherson - 2022 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 16 (3):333-396.
    This is a book symposium on Steffen Borge’s The Philosophy of Football. It has contributions from William Morgan, Murray Smith and Brian Weatherson with replies from Borge.
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  • A critical note on sporting supererogation.Steffen Borge - 2021 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 48 (2):247-261.
    Alfred Archer recently argued that there is good reason to think that sporting supererogation exists. In the present paper, I take a closer look at Archer’s two key cases from association football...
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  • What Is Sport?Steffen Borge - 2013 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 15 (3):308-330.
    In this paper, I am going to present a condensed version of my theory of what sport is from my book The Philosophy of Football. In that work, I took my starting point in Bernard Suits’ celebrated,...
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  • Rethinking the notion of prelusory goal.Steffen Borge - forthcoming - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy:1-23.
    In this paper, I address Bernard Suits’ notion of having a prelusory goal before playing a game or doing a sport and suggest that it needs rethinking. My focus is on sport. Before (pre) doing or playing a sport (lusory), we aim at the prelusory goal of sport, which Suits describes as a specific achievable state of affairs. I criticize Suits’ understanding of the prelusory goal of sport and argue that we need to leave it behind. Instead of the Suitsian (...)
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  • Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport.Kenneth Aggerholm - forthcoming - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport:1-24.
    The world of sports today is grappling with dehumanizing tendencies. New technologies are changing sport as we know it, altering the experience of being an athlete in radical ways. These tendencies call for new approaches to sport that consider the human elements of sport. To this end, and as a response to transhumanist and posthumanist arguments, I propose and draw the contours of a humanist theory of sport. I argue that it complements prevailing theories of sport like formalism, broad internalism (...)
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  • (1 other version)Book Symposium: Alfred Archer and Jake Wojtowicz’s Why it’s OK to be a Sports Fan.Alfred Archer, Jake Wojtowicz, Adam Kadlac, Joe Slater, Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt & Nina Windgätter - forthcoming - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
    This is a book symposium on Why It’s OK to Be a Sports Fan, by Alfred Archer and Jake Wojtowicz, with contributions from Adam Kadlac, Joe Slater, Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt, and Nina Windgätter. The discussion covers a range of topics, including the form of love involved in fandom, the epistemic status of fans, fictionalism, and the role of communities in fandom.
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  • It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom.Alfred Archer & Jake Wojtowicz - 2022 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 49 (1):83-98.
    Do sports fans really care about their team winning? According to several philosophers, the answer is no. Sports fans engage in fictional caring during the match, which involves a game of make-believe that the result is important. We will argue that this account does not provide a full account of the way in which fans relate to the teams they support. For many fans, the team they support forms a core part of their identity. The success or failure of their (...)
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