Publications

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Human Rights, Goods, and Preferences in Sport.” In Sex, Gender Identity, and Sport, Cathy Devine (ed.). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003568582-12

“Women, autonomy, and sport: different situations, different dangers”. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Special issue on dangerous sport. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2026.2641555

“How not to use sport for virtue: moral standing, self-conceit, and principled exclusions.”  Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy.  Special issue on Sport and Justice.  (2025).  https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2025.2512512

“On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports.” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Special issue on Nature Sport. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2024.2310189

“Fame, Narrative, and the (Im)Permanence of Memory”. In The Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity, eds Alfred Archer, Catherine Robb, and Matthew Dennis, Bloomsbury Press, 2024.

“Bullshit as a Practical Strategy for Self-Deceptive Narrators”. Philosophical Forum. 53, 3: 195-206 (Fall 2022). http://doi.org/10.1111/phil.12318

“Altering the Narrative of Champions: Recognition, Excellence, Fairness, and Inclusion”. Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy, Special Issue: Women in Sport, 14, 4 (2020):496-510. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2020.1754281

“Bad Faith, Bad Behaviour, and Role Models”.  Journal of Applied Philosophy. (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12437

“Not Everything is a Contest: Sport, Nature Sport, and Friluftsliv”.  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 46, 3 (2019).  DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2019.1622126

“Intensity and the Sublime: Paying Attention to Self and Environment in Nature Sports” Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy.  19, 1 (2019): 94-106.  DOI:10.1080/17511321.2017.1388272

“Simulation, Seduction, and Bullshit: Cooperative and Destructive Misleading”. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. 44, 3 (2017): 300-314.  DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2017.1341325.

“Ludonarrative Dissonance and Dominant Narratives”. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 44, 1 (2017): 44-54.

“Feminism in the Philosophy of Sport”. In Mike McNamee and William J. Morgan (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport, 161-177.  Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.

“Sport, Risk, and Danger”. In Cesar R. Torres. The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport, 148-162. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

“Different Kinds of Perfect: The Pursuit of Excellence in Nature Based Sports.” Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy, 6, 3 (2012): 353-368.

“Convention, Audience, and Narrative: Which Play is the Thing?” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 39, 2 (2011): 135-148.

“On Competing Against Oneself, or ‘I need to get a different voice in my head’”, Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy. Vol. 2, no. 3 (2008): 353-366.

“Self and Pretence: Playing with Identity”, Journal of Social Philosophy vol.39, no. 4 (2008): 564-582.

“Remote Sport: Risk and Self-Knowledge in Wilder Spaces”, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 35, no. 1 (2008): 1-16.

“Play, Performance, and the Docile Athlete”, Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy, vol. 1 no. 1 (2007): 47-57.

“Vicarious Pain and Genuine Pleasure: Some Reflections on Spectator Transformation of Meaning in Sport,” in Sporting Reflections: Some Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Heather Sheridan, Leslie A. Howe, and Keith Thompson, 32-44. Oxford: Meyer & Meyer Verlag (UK), 2007.

“Queer Revelations: Desire, Identity, and Self-Deceit,” Philosophical Forum vol. 36 no. 3 (2005): 221-243.

“Gamesmanship,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 31, no. 2 (2004): 212-225.

“Athletics, Embodiment, and the Appropriation of the Self,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 17 no. 2 (2003): 92-107.

“Being and Playing: Sport and the Valorization of Gender,” Philosophy and Everyday Life: The Quest for Meaning, edited by Laura Duhan Kaplan, 108-126. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2001.

“Kierkegaard and the Feminine Self,” Hypatia, vol. 9 no. 4 (1994): 131-157

Books:

On Habermas. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Press, 2000.

On Goldman. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Press, 2000.

Reports and Other Articles:

Tommy R. Lundberg, Leslie A. Howe, Jon Pike, Gregory Brown, Jim Parry & Irena Martínková, Anna Di Giandomenico, Miroslav Imbrišević. “Sex Verification in Female Sport”. Idrottsforum–Nordic Sports Science Forum 2026-05-19. https://idrottsforum.org/imbrisevicetal260519/

Submission of Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee for the Status of Women on the Participation of Women and Girls in Sport. 15 December 2022.

Cathy Devine, Emma Hilton, Leslie Howe, Miroslav Imbrišević, Tommy Lundberg, Jon Pike. “When Ideology Trumps Science: A response to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport’s Review on Transwomen Athletes in the Female Category”. Idrottsforum. 29 November 2022. https://idrottsforum.org/devineetal221129/

Cathy Devine (Principal Researcher) and Leslie A. Howe. “Canadian High-Performance Female Athletes’ Voices: Transgender Inclusion in Elite and Olympic Sport Guidelines.” Sport Canada. 96 pages. August 2022.

Cathy Devine (Principal Researcher) and Leslie A. Howe. “Policy Review: International and National Transgender Inclusion Strategies”. Sport Canada. 69 pages. August 2022.