SPORTS ETHICS: AN ANTHOLOGY

Abstract

Notes on contributors -- Foreword by Dean Smith -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the moral significance of sport / Jan Boxill -- I. Sport and education -- Ch. 1. Sports, relativism, and moral education / Robert L. Simon -- Ch. 2. Why everyone deserves a sporting chance: education, justice, and school sports / Janice Moulton -- Ch. 3. Moral development and sport: character and cognitive developmentalism contrasted / Carwyn Jones and Mike McNamee -- Ch. 4. Philosopher in the playground: notes on the meaning of sport / Peter Heinegg -- Ch. 5. Foul play: sports metaphors as public doublespeak / Francine Hardaway -- II. Sport and sportspersonship -- Ch. 6. Sportsmanship as a moral category / James W. Keating -- Ch. 7. Three approaches toward an understanding of sportsmanship / Peter J. Arnold -- Ch. 8. Deception, sportsmanship, and ethics / Kathleen M. Pearson -- Ch. 9. On sportsmanship and "running up the score" / Nicholas Dixon -- Ch. 10. Sportsmanship and blowouts: baseball and beyond / Randolph M. Feezell -- III. Sport and competition -- Ch. 11. The ethics of competition / Jan Boxill -- Ch. 12. On winning and athletic superiority / Nicholas Dixon -- Ch. 13. In defense of winning / R. Scott Kretchmar -- Ch. 14. Winding down, looking ahead / Dean Smith -- Ch. 15. Personal best / W.M. Brown -- Ch. 16. Fair play as respect for the game / Robert Butcher and Angela Schneider -- IV. Sport and drugs -- Ch. 17. Good competition and drug-enhanced performance / Robert L. Simon -- Ch. 18. Enhancing performance in sports: what is morally permissible? / Laura Morgan -- Ch. 19. Sports and drugs: are the current bans justified? / Michael Lavin -- V. Sport and violence -- Ch. 20. What is sports violence? / Michael Smith -- Ch. 21. Values and violence in sports today: the moral reasoning athletes use in their games and in their lives / Brenda Jo Bredemeir, David L. Shields, and Jack C. Horn -- Ch. 22. Violence and sports / Robert E. Leach -- VI. Sport and gender -- Ch. 23. Sex equality in sports / Jane English -- Ch. 24. Human equality in sports / Peter S. Wenz -- Ch. 25. Gender equity and inequity in athletics / Robert L. Simon -- Ch. 26. Title IX and gender equity / Jan Boxill -- Ch. 27. Why women do better than men in college basketball, or "what is collegiate sport for, anyway?" / Nicholas Hunt-Bull -- Ch. 28. Women, self-possession, and sport / Catherine MacKinnon -- Ch. 29. Stronger women / Mariah Burton Nelso -- Ch. 30. The sports closet / Liz Galst -- VII. Sport and racial issues -- Ch. 31. Racial differences in sports: what's ethics got to do with it? / Albert Mosley -- Ch. 32. Race and college sport: a long way to go / Richard E. Lapchick -- Ch. 33. Sport and stereotype: from role model to Muhammad Ali / Mike Margusee -- VIII. Sport and role models -- Ch. 34. Do celebrated athletes have special responsibilities to be good role models? an imagined dialog between Charles Barkley and Karl Malone / Christopher Wellman -- Ch. 35. Get the message? / Rick Reilly -- Index