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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘A vision of paradise lost’: coaching as a grasshopper rather than an ant17
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners15
Nature sport’s ism problem14
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport14
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport13
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’7
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept6
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports5
Game play, wholehearted engagement, and the good life5
A just organized youth sport4
The puzzle of sports fandom4
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship4
The allure of sports in western culture4
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context4
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law4
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport3
Boredom, sport, and games3
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences3
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport3
Art, aesthetics, and the medium: comments for Nguyen on the art-status of games3
Beyond the Fields Beyond the Fields , by Randolph Feezell, Beaumont, Texas, Lamar University Literary Press, 2022, 168 pp., $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 97819429569453
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement3
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems3
Is bodybuilding a sport?3
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works2
Beyond agency: games as the aesthetics of being2
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement2
Conflating and misgendering: why World Athletics (and other sports governing bodies) should jettison the competitive labels ‘Women’s’/‘Men’s’2
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art2
A comparative philosophy of sport and art2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia2
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki2
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites2
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
The real ethical problems with strategic fouling in basketball1
World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development1
Phenomenal experience and the aesthetics of agency1
In defense of medically supervised doping1
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport1
Athletes as workers1
Athletic imagery as an educational tool in Epictetus1
It’s much more important than that: against fictionalist accounts of fandom1
How bad can good sport be?1
What money can buy: technology and breaking the two-hour ‘marathon’ record1
Fun and (striving) games: playfulness and agential fluidity1
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports1
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White1
Democracy, philosophy and sport: animating the agonistic spirit1
The power of nature (sports)? From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism1
The philosophy of sport in Brazil: in search of the construction of a field of research1
The parental dilemma of talented children1
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
The role of risk in nature sports1
Cowboy professionalism: a cultural study of big-mountain tourism in the last frontier1
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
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players1
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition1
Magnificent Utopian games1
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by1
Fairness in handicap and championship sport0
Trash talk and Kantian values0
Mapping the terrain of sport: a core-periphery model0
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium0
Two concepts of sporting excellence0
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?0
What do players do in a game? A Habermasian perspective0
Easy games are still games for Suits0
Into the glidescape: an outline of gliding sports from the perspective of applied phenomenology0
‘Life outside the diamond is a wrench’: on experiencing talent loss in sports0
On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports0
Husserl’s three-part model for intentionality: an examination of players, play acts, and playgrounds0
Elements of excellence0
Agential layering, the absurd and the grind in game-playing0
Somaesthetics and Sport0
Embodied wisdom: philosophical reflections on boxing as a formative educational practice0
The opacity of play: a reply to commentators0
Marx’s repulsion and Serres’s turbulence: a Lucretian philosophy of movement0
The intelligibility and adequacy of late-stage utopian games0
Virtuous connections along Russell’s route0
A defence of tanking in sports0
MMA and the purist/partisan distinction0
The burden of over-representation: race, sport, and philosophy0
How to be a fictionalist about sport: response to Archer and Wojtowicz0
Ultra sports as nature sports (proper)0
Epistemological and cognitive aspects of the phenomenon of dance and corporeality0
Misaligned education0
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science0
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy0
A Confucian mutualist theory of sport0
Games, motives, and virtue0
In defense of religion-sport separation in coaching0
Freeride skiing – the values of freedom and creativity0
Games and the fluidity of layered agency0
Wonder and the sublime in surfing and nature sports0
The moral proximity of rooting0
A critical note on a purported disanalogy between cycling and mixed martial arts0
Between adventure and delicacy: sailing as a powerful experience for women0
The family, the team, and special responsibilities0
Sport, games, and the fluidity of agency0
Scales of ignorance: an ethical normative framework to account for relative risk of harm in sport categorization0
‘The hand of God’: hierophany and transcendence through sport0
Risky rescues revisited0
Sport and Moral Conflict0
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport0
Deleuze and sport: towards a general athleticism of thought0
Sport as part of a meaningful life0
Ants, grasshoppers, asshoppers, and crickets cohabit in Utopia: the anthropological foundations of Bernard Suits’ analyses of gameplay and good living0
Risky rescues – a reply to Patrick Findler0
Esports, real sports and the Olympic Virtual Series0
Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity0
Steve Prefontaine: artist on the track?0
Atmospheres in sport: a neophenomenological approach0
The business and culture of sports: society, politics, economy, environment0
On the justification for World Rugby’s ban on trans women: assessing key arguments in the debate0
Foul-weather fandom0
A Husserlian contribution: concerning intentional movement and understanding in sporting activities0
The paradox of the perfect game0
Sport Realism: A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport0
Striving play and achievement play in Games: Agency as Art0
Trans women participation in sport: A feminist alternative to Pike’s position0
Why have North American sport philosophers ignored race?0
Gratuitous risk: danger and recklessness perception of adventure sports participants0
Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education , by Oyvind Standal, New York, Routledge, 2016, $149.98 (hardback), ISB0
Competing for the gods: agonistic rituals in the ancient world (Competiendo para los dioses: los rituals agonísticos en el mundo antíguo)0
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