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  1. Purism and the category of ‘the aesthetic’: the drama argument.Leon Culbertson - 2017 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 44 (1):1-14.
    This paper examines one component of Stephen Mumford’s case for the claim that we should regard sport, art and the aesthetic as more closely connected than has tended to be the case, under the influence of the work of David Best, in recent years. Mumford’s rejection of what I call ‘the drama argument’ is examined in detail and it is argued that all but one element of his case fails to do the job he envisages.
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  • Criteria, Defeasibility and Rules: Intention and the Principal Aim Argument.Leon Culbertson - 2018 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 12 (2):149-161.
    This paper builds on a previous discussion of Stephen Mumford’s rejection of what he takes to be David Best’s argument for a distinction between purposive and aesthetic sports. That discussion concluded that Mumford’s argument misses its target, but closed by introducing a possible alternative argument, not made by Mumford, that might be thought to have the potential to secure Mumford’s conclusion. This paper considers that alternative argument, namely, the thought that the ascription of psychological predicates conceived of in terms of (...)
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