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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Philosophy of Sport is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Violence and values in combat sport	25
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	18
Use of logic as a Suitsian game	11
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	11
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	10
Nature sport’s ism problem	8
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	8
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	7
Dangerous sport and organizational responsibility: the case of football and the duty of care	7
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	6
The allure of sports in western culture	6
A just organized youth sport	6
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	5
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	5
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	5
Death in sport: a philosophical paradox of existential modes of necrophilia and biophilia	4
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	4
Boredom, sport, and games	4
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	4
The puzzle of sports fandom	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	4
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	3
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781942956945	3

Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3
Paradox in the process of gamification and its consequences within the play–game–sport triad	3
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	3
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	3
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki	3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement	3
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2
Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport,	2
The argument from self-respect for gender wage equality in sport	2
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport	2
Time and spectacle: an insight of chess at the era of late capitalism	2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
Magnificent Utopian games	2
The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagons The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagons , edited by Holt, Jason and Ramsay, Marc, Routled	2
Athletes as workers	2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport	2
On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport , by Matt Hoven, J. J. Carney, Max T. Engel Eugene, Oregon, Cascade Books	2
The parental dilemma of talented children	2
From schizophrenic desiring-machines to neoliberal spectators: deleuzian notes on Turkish football fandom	2
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
Surfing and the philosophy of sport Surfing and the philosophy of sport , by Daniel Brennan, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7936-4078-9 (hardback), ISBN 978-1	1
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White	1
The power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism	1
How bad can good sport be?	1
The role of risk in programming the skater’s eye	1
The role of risk in nature sports	1
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?	1
Cowboy professionalism: a cultural study of big-mountain tourism in the last frontier	1
The real ethical problems with strategic fouling in basketball	1
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition	1
Games as agential yoga: athletic virtues and their agential counterparts	1
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports	1
Strengthening the status quo: moral regulation of anti-doping policy	1
Meaning in extremis	1
W. J. Morgan and the return of philosophical elitism (to sport and beyond): hierarchy of games in debate	1
World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development	1
The concession rule	1
Democracy, philosophy and sport: animating the agonistic spirit	1
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players	1
American football, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and discontinuity of psychological personhood	1
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy	1
Easy games are still games for Suits	1
Women, autonomy and sport: different situations, different dangers	1
Scales of ignorance: an ethical normative framework to account for relative risk of harm in sport categorization	0
The idle life of the Grasshopper: a response to J. S. Russell	0
Embodied wisdom: philosophical reflections on boxing as a formative educational practice	0

Restoring Trust in Sport: Corruption Cases and Solutions	0
Tracking devices as extensions of the mind	0
Trash talk and Kantian values	0
What do players do in a game? A Habermasian perspective	0
Skateboarding’s sovereign excellence	0
Transworld sport: formalism and the identification problem	0
Risky rescues revisited	0
Latin American bodies matter: a decolonial approach to reimagining the ‘perfect’ body in artistic gymnastics	0
Marx’s repulsion and Serres’s turbulence: a Lucretian philosophy of movement	0
Categorization, virtues in sport, and the relevance of social injustice: a tribute to J.S. Russell	0
‘Life outside the diamond is a wrench’: on experiencing talent loss in sports	0
J.S. Russell and the democratization of perfectionism	0
Fairness in handicap and championship sport	0
Husserl’s three-part model for intentionality: an examination of players, play acts, and playgrounds	0
Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education , by Oyvind Standal, New York, Routledge, 2016, $149.98 (hardback), ISB	0
On the justification for World Rugby’s ban on trans women: assessing key arguments in the debate	0
Wonder and the sublime in surfing and nature sports	0
Mapping the terrain of sport: a core-periphery model	0
A Confucian mutualist theory of sport	0
The scythe and hourglass: games, death, and the good life	0
Sport Realism: A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport	0
The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games	0
Responses to contributors to ‘ the sport philosophy of J.S. Russell ’	0
The myth of ‘records get broken, medals are forever’	0
Situated internalism for adapted sport: constraints, àskēsis and challengeability	0
Risky rescues – a reply to Patrick Findler	0
Play it again: the irony of watching recordings	0
Competing for the gods: agonistic rituals in the ancient world (Competiendo para los dioses: los rituals agonísticos en el mundo antíguo)	0
On the good conduct of sports	0
Ultra sports as nature sports (proper)	0
Into the glidescape: an outline of gliding sports from the perspective of applied phenomenology	0
‘To walk or not to walk’: a critical examination of the arguments for walking in cricket	0
Atmospheres in sport: a neophenomenological approach	0
Foul-weather fandom	0
Phenomenology of embodiment and spatiality: a qualitative study of the Georgian National Blind Football Team	0
Aesthetic reading of speed in contemporary sports	0
Death, pain and virtue in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy of sport	0
Interpretivism, sport realism, and the vice of formalism	0
Epistemological and cognitive aspects of the phenomenon of dance and corporeality	0
The business and culture of sports: society, politics, economy, environment	0
Virtuous connections along Russell’s route	0
Freeride skiing – the values of freedom and creativity	0
A defence of tanking in sports	0
Two concepts of sporting excellence	0
The family, the team, and special responsibilities	0
Gratuitous risk: danger and recklessness perception of adventure sports participants	0
Russell’s jurisprudence of sport	0
The paradox of the perfect game	0
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium	0
Esports, real sports and the Olympic Virtual Series	0
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science	0
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport	0
How to be a fictionalist about sport: response to Archer and Wojtowicz	0
The intelligibility and adequacy of late-stage utopian games	0
Close calls, near misses and second chances: possible worlds and sport	0
Goals reconsidered: from brute prelusory states of affairs to the lusory complexity of sport	0
On the connection between sport and morality: does Russell’s ‘continuity thesis’ hold water?	0
Why have North American sport philosophers ignored race?	0
On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports	0
Steve Prefontaine: artist on the track?	0
Sex, fairness and the World Athletics regulations: a reply to Bowman-Smart et al.	0
Deleuze and sport: towards a general athleticism of thought	0
Between adventure and delicacy: sailing as a powerful experience for women	0
Sport and Moral Conflict	0
Sport as embodied oath: towards a theory of ‘game acts’	0
In defense of religion-sport separation in coaching	0
‘The hand of God’: hierophany and transcendence through sport	0
The morality of dangerous nature sport	0
Somaesthetics and Sport	0
MMA and the purist/partisan distinction	0
The moral proximity of rooting	0