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The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics: From Doping to Cyborgs
Author(s): Jose Luis Perez Trivino (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 25 April 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 140 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780739179987
- ISBN-13: 0739179985
Book Description
The book attempts to provide a wide overview of key ethical matters in the philosophy of sport: What is fair play? Is strategic fouling legitimate? What is the role of cheating and gamesmanship in sport? What can be said about doping and physical enhancement? How can we approach gender issues that come from the core of the practice of sport? Does sport share any common characteristics, or even roots, with racism, violence, or nationalism? Should cyborgathletes compete in equal conditions with organic athletes? What can we do with new technologies in sport? In the book there is an analyse of all possible solutions that the main authors or contemporary sport philosopher has brought forward on a topic, and after having laid out the current panorama, the author deal with each of them directly and personally.
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About the Author
José Luis Pérez Triviño is an associate professor of philosophy of law at the Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Law and Philosophy, he has realized research stages to the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics of the University of Oxford and in the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Genova (Italy) and Córdoba (Argentina). He has given conferences in several universities and international congresses on philosophy of sport. He has also been deputy director of the Law Department and coordinator of the Law PhD program at the Pompeu Fabra University (2007-2010).
