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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spilled milk and burned toast: extrinsic pressure and sporting excellence16
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems14
Democracy, philosophy and sport: animating the agonistic spirit13
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport11
On the justification for World Rugby’s ban on trans women: assessing key arguments in the debate9
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences9
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport7
Why have North American sport philosophers ignored race?7
Freeride skiing – the values of freedom and creativity5
The poetics of everyday movement: human movement ecology and urban walking4
Athletic skill and the value of close contests4
Sport, games, and the fluidity of agency4
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, Routled3
World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development3
‘A vision of paradise lost’: coaching as a grasshopper rather than an ant3
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition3
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport3
Trans women participation in sport: A feminist alternative to Pike’s position3
The power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism3
Athletes as workers3
The parental dilemma of talented children3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization3
Games, motives, and virtue2
Easy games are still games for Suits2
Marx’s repulsion and Serres’s turbulence: a Lucretian philosophy of movement2
The moral proximity of rooting2
Games and the fluidity of layered agency2
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners2
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport2
The family, the team, and special responsibilities2
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement2
The paradox of the perfect game2
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?1
What do players do in a game? A Habermasian perspective1
Beyond agency: games as the aesthetics of being1
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art1
Embodied wisdom: philosophical reflections on boxing as a formative educational practice1
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 97819429569451
Epistemological and cognitive aspects of the phenomenon of dance and corporeality1
The business and culture of sports: society, politics, economy, environment1
A Husserlian contribution: concerning intentional movement and understanding in sporting activities1
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science1
Mapping the terrain of sport: a core-periphery model1
A critical note on sporting supererogation1
The role of risk in nature sports1
How bad can good sport be?1
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy1
Ants, grasshoppers, asshoppers, and crickets cohabit in Utopia: the anthropological foundations of Bernard Suits’ analyses of gameplay and good living1
In defense of medically supervised doping1
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by1
Between adventure and delicacy: sailing as a powerful experience for women1
What money can buy: technology and breaking the two-hour ‘marathon’ record1
Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity1
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki1
Striving play and achievement play in Games: Agency as Art1
‘Playing sport playfully’: on the playful attitude in sport1
Somaesthetics and Sport1
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement1
How to be a fictionalist about sport: response to Archer and Wojtowicz0
Esports, real sports and the Olympic Virtual Series0
Misaligned education0
Trash talk and Kantian values0
Deleuze and sport: towards a general athleticism of thought0
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports0
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’0
Risky rescues revisited0
Sport as part of a meaningful life0
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge0
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 978-10
Phenomenal experience and the aesthetics of agency0
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia0
Magnificent Utopian games0
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 Books0
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept0
A fair shake for the fair-weather fan0
Elements of excellence0
MMA and the purist/partisan distinction0
Boredom, sport, and games0
On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports0
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law0
The real ethical problems with strategic fouling in basketball0
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research0
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport0
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport0
A comparative philosophy of sport and art0
Foul-weather fandom0
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium0
A just organized youth sport0
A critical note on a purported disanalogy between cycling and mixed martial arts0
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites0
Athletic imagery as an educational tool in Epictetus0
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate0
Two concepts of sporting excellence0
Risky rescues – a reply to Patrick Findler0
Sport Realism: A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport0
The burden of over-representation: race, sport, and philosophy0
Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education , by Oyvind Standal, New York, Routledge, 2016, $149.98 (hardback), ISB0
Is bodybuilding a sport?0
Fun and (striving) games: playfulness and agential fluidity0
Sport, meritocracy, and praise0
Agential layering, the absurd and the grind in game-playing0
The puzzle of sports fandom0
Sport and Moral Conflict0
The opacity of play: a reply to commentators0
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White0
Game play, wholehearted engagement, and the good life0
Fairness in handicap and championship sport0
‘The hand of God’: hierophany and transcendence through sport0
In defense of religion-sport separation in coaching0
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship0
A defence of tanking in sports0
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports0
Husserl’s three-part model for intentionality: an examination of players, play acts, and playgrounds0
A Confucian mutualist theory of sport0
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’0
Nature sport’s ism problem0
Wonder and the sublime in surfing and nature sports0
Art, aesthetics, and the medium: comments for Nguyen on the art-status of games0
Ultra sports as nature sports (proper)0
Into the glidescape: an outline of gliding sports from the perspective of applied phenomenology0
Cowboy professionalism: a cultural study of big-mountain tourism in the last frontier0
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context0
Scales of ignorance: an ethical normative framework to account for relative risk of harm in sport categorization0
The allure of sports in western culture0
Gratuitous risk: danger and recklessness perception of adventure sports participants0
Competing for the gods: agonistic rituals in the ancient world (Competiendo para los dioses: los rituals agonísticos en el mundo antíguo)0
‘Life outside the diamond is a wrench’: on experiencing talent loss in sports0
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players0
The intelligibility and adequacy of late-stage utopian games0
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom0
Steve Prefontaine: artist on the track?0
0.043842077255249