Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘A vision of paradise lost’: coaching as a grasshopper rather than an ant17
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners14
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport14
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’13
A critical note on sporting supererogation13
Nature sport’s ism problem12
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport8
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept7
Game play, wholehearted engagement, and the good life6
The allure of sports in western culture5
A just organized youth sport4
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship4
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context4
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports4
Is bodybuilding a sport?3
Boredom, sport, and games3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement3
The puzzle of sports fandom3
Art, aesthetics, and the medium: comments for Nguyen on the art-status of games3
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences3
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport3
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law3
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization3
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 97819429569452
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom2
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate2
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki2
Beyond agency: games as the aesthetics of being2
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art2
How bad can good sport be?1
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White1
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 978-11
The parental dilemma of talented children1
Magnificent Utopian games1
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research1
Sport, meritocracy, and praise1
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, Routled1
What money can buy: technology and breaking the two-hour ‘marathon’ record1
In defense of medically supervised doping1
Democracy, philosophy and sport: animating the agonistic spirit1
The power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism1
Athletic imagery as an educational tool in Epictetus1
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’1
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport1
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition1
The real ethical problems with strategic fouling in basketball1
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players1
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 Books1
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites1
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge1
Athletes as workers1
The business and culture of sports: society, politics, economy, environment0
Ants, grasshoppers, asshoppers, and crickets cohabit in Utopia: the anthropological foundations of Bernard Suits’ analyses of gameplay and good living0
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports0
On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports0
Phenomenal experience and the aesthetics of agency0
Esports, real sports and the Olympic Virtual Series0
Ultra sports as nature sports (proper)0
A Confucian mutualist theory of sport0
Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity0
Freeride skiing – the values of freedom and creativity0
Into the glidescape: an outline of gliding sports from the perspective of applied phenomenology0
Risky rescues – a reply to Patrick Findler0
The moral proximity of rooting0
Risky rescues revisited0
In defense of religion-sport separation in coaching0
How to be a fictionalist about sport: response to Archer and Wojtowicz0
Mapping the terrain of sport: a core-periphery model0
Gratuitous risk: danger and recklessness perception of adventure sports participants0
Two concepts of sporting excellence0
Sport, games, and the fluidity of agency0
‘The hand of God’: hierophany and transcendence through sport0
Somaesthetics and Sport0
Husserl’s three-part model for intentionality: an examination of players, play acts, and playgrounds0
A critical note on a purported disanalogy between cycling and mixed martial arts0
Trash talk and Kantian values0
Deleuze and sport: towards a general athleticism of thought0
Fun and (striving) games: playfulness and agential fluidity0
A fair shake for the fair-weather fan0
World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development0
‘Life outside the diamond is a wrench’: on experiencing talent loss in sports0
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy0
Foul-weather fandom0
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?0
On the justification for World Rugby’s ban on trans women: assessing key arguments in the debate0
Competing for the gods: agonistic rituals in the ancient world (Competiendo para los dioses: los rituals agonísticos en el mundo antíguo)0
Misaligned education0
The paradox of the perfect game0
What do players do in a game? A Habermasian perspective0
Easy games are still games for Suits0
Scales of ignorance: an ethical normative framework to account for relative risk of harm in sport categorization0
Fairness in handicap and championship sport0
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science0
Why have North American sport philosophers ignored race?0
Sport and Moral Conflict0
Striving play and achievement play in Games: Agency as Art0
The opacity of play: a reply to commentators0
A Husserlian contribution: concerning intentional movement and understanding in sporting activities0
Marx’s repulsion and Serres’s turbulence: a Lucretian philosophy of movement0
Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education , by Oyvind Standal, New York, Routledge, 2016, $149.98 (hardback), ISB0
Sport as part of a meaningful life0
Embodied wisdom: philosophical reflections on boxing as a formative educational practice0
Cowboy professionalism: a cultural study of big-mountain tourism in the last frontier0
‘Playing sport playfully’: on the playful attitude in sport0
Games and the fluidity of layered agency0
Elements of excellence0
Games, motives, and virtue0
Steve Prefontaine: artist on the track?0
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium0
Trans women participation in sport: A feminist alternative to Pike’s position0
The burden of over-representation: race, sport, and philosophy0
The role of risk in nature sports0
The family, the team, and special responsibilities0
A defence of tanking in sports0
Agential layering, the absurd and the grind in game-playing0
The intelligibility and adequacy of late-stage utopian games0
Epistemological and cognitive aspects of the phenomenon of dance and corporeality0
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport0
MMA and the purist/partisan distinction0
Between adventure and delicacy: sailing as a powerful experience for women0
Sport Realism: A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport0
Wonder and the sublime in surfing and nature sports0
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