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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘A vision of paradise lost’: coaching as a grasshopper rather than an ant	18
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners	17
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport	15
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’	14
Nature sport’s ism problem	14
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept	7
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context	7
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport	7
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports	6
The allure of sports in western culture	6
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship	5
A just organized youth sport	5
Boredom, sport, and games	4
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law	4
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport	4
The puzzle of sports fandom	4
Is bodybuilding a sport?	4
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences	3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization	3
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence	3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport	3
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport	3
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems	3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement	3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport	3

Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate	2
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki	2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia	2
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement	2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’	2
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781942956945	2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art	2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites	2
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom	2
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art	2
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works	2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge	2
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by	2
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White	1
Democracy, philosophy and sport: animating the agonistic spirit	1
Athletic imagery as an educational tool in Epictetus	1
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research	1
Athletes as workers	1
Phenomenal experience and the aesthetics of agency	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
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	1
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport	1
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport	1
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	1
What money can buy: technology and breaking the two-hour ‘marathon’ record	1
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players	1
In defense of medically supervised doping	1
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 power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism	1
Magnificent Utopian games	1
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition	1
The parental dilemma of talented children	1
How bad can good sport be?	1
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports	1
The business and culture of sports: society, politics, economy, environment	0
Steve Prefontaine: artist on the track?	0
A defence of tanking in sports	0
Freeride skiing – the values of freedom and creativity	0
The burden of over-representation: race, sport, and philosophy	0
Elements of excellence	0
Ultra sports as nature sports (proper)	0
Embodied wisdom: philosophical reflections on boxing as a formative educational practice	0
Risky rescues – a reply to Patrick Findler	0
The moral proximity of rooting	0
Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity	0
World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development	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
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy	0
Scales of ignorance: an ethical normative framework to account for relative risk of harm in sport categorization	0

Two concepts of sporting excellence	0
Why have North American sport philosophers ignored race?	0
Russell’s jurisprudence of sport	0
How to be a fictionalist about sport: response to Archer and Wojtowicz	0
Marx’s repulsion and Serres’s turbulence: a Lucretian philosophy of movement	0
Virtuous connections along Russell’s route	0
Wonder and the sublime in surfing and nature sports	0
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science	0
In defense of religion-sport separation in coaching	0
‘Life outside the diamond is a wrench’: on experiencing talent loss in sports	0
On the good conduct of sports	0
On the justification for World Rugby’s ban on trans women: assessing key arguments in the debate	0
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport	0
The paradox of the perfect game	0
Sport as part of a meaningful life	0
Ants, grasshoppers, asshoppers, and crickets cohabit in Utopia: the anthropological foundations of Bernard Suits’ analyses of gameplay and good living	0
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?	0
Easy games are still games for Suits	0
Atmospheres in sport: a neophenomenological approach	0
Into the glidescape: an outline of gliding sports from the perspective of applied phenomenology	0
Mapping the terrain of sport: a core-periphery model	0
Foul-weather fandom	0
The intelligibility and adequacy of late-stage utopian games	0
The opacity of play: a reply to commentators	0
Sport, games, and the fluidity of agency	0
A critical note on a purported disanalogy between cycling and mixed martial arts	0
Fairness in handicap and championship sport	0
Somaesthetics and Sport	0
Epistemological and cognitive aspects of the phenomenon of dance and corporeality	0
Husserl’s three-part model for intentionality: an examination of players, play acts, and playgrounds	0
A Confucian mutualist theory of sport	0
Between adventure and delicacy: sailing as a powerful experience for women	0
What do players do in a game? A Habermasian perspective	0
Competing for the gods: agonistic rituals in the ancient world (Competiendo para los dioses: los rituals agonísticos en el mundo antíguo)	0
Trans women participation in sport: A feminist alternative to Pike’s position	0
Trash talk and Kantian values	0
The family, the team, and special responsibilities	0
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium	0
The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games	0
Categorization, virtues in sport, and the relevance of social injustice: a tribute to J.S. Russell	0
The role of risk in nature sports	0
MMA and the purist/partisan distinction	0
On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports	0
Gratuitous risk: danger and recklessness perception of adventure sports participants	0
‘The hand of God’: hierophany and transcendence through sport	0
J.S. Russell and the democratization of perfectionism	0
Sport Realism: A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport	0
Deleuze and sport: towards a general athleticism of thought	0
Risky rescues revisited	0
Esports, real sports and the Olympic Virtual Series	0
Sport and Moral Conflict	0
A Husserlian contribution: concerning intentional movement and understanding in sporting activities	0
Interpretivism, sport realism, and the vice of formalism	0