There is a contention that sport can never be truly fair given that there are always inequalities between competitors: differences in height or metabolism, age, training, skill, etc. including differences that result from social inequalities, such as opportunities to develop abilities as a consequence of class, wealth, location, and so on. If we follow suchContinue reading “On Meaningfulness in Sport Competition”
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Fair Fights and Foul: Competition Categories and Human Rights in Sport
Note: The discussion of sport as a human right (and why it isn’t) was a central motivator for this paper. The final (for now) version of this discussion for me, and more or less the final version of this paper, is in “Human Rights, Goods, and Preferences in Sport”, published in Cathy Devine’s anthology Sex,Continue reading “Fair Fights and Foul: Competition Categories and Human Rights in Sport”
Rational Amateurs: Excellence and Authenticity
[I worked on this paper between 2011 and 2013. It put together two papers that were related but not very well integrated, and it was originally pretty polemical. It got savaged by reviewers. Eventually I gave up on it, but I had done a lot of research on amateurism and the amateur ideal and itContinue reading “Rational Amateurs: Excellence and Authenticity”
A Slightly Cluttered Desk 