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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners19
Inclusion as the value of eligibility rules in sport17
High altitude, enhancement, and the ‘spirit of sport’16
Nature sport’s ism problem14
Spontaneous movement: an exploration of the concept14
On Esports and competitive cooking: once more on the nature of sport7
The allure of sports in western culture7
Why player political protest should be part of U.S. professional sports7
Nguyen meets his critics—Games: Agency as Art in a philosophy of sport context6
Rocks, scorned facts, and diamonds: experience, recollection, and sport philosophy scholarship6
A just organized youth sport6
The puzzle of sports fandom5
Between active and passive: a phenomenological discovery of sports sensation experiences4
A critical overview of the work of J.S. Russell and the problem of doping in sport4
The jurisprudence of sport: sports and games as legal systems4
Boredom, sport, and games4
Is bodybuilding a sport?4
Governing the society of competition: cycling, doping and the law4
Suffering and Schadenfreude in sport3
Why we care about who athletes are: on the peculiar nature of athletic achievement3
The wave commons: toward a (Rousseauvian) theory of entitlement and its rationalization3
The concept of a rule in baseball: an essay in honor of J.S. Russell, jurisprudent of sport3
Sport humanism: contours of a humanist theory of sport3
Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence3
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
On the ludic and strategic fouling in John Russell’s works2
In defense of sporting supererogation: a reply to Borge2
Beyond the finish line: images, evidence, and the history of the photo-finish, by2
Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki2
Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia2
Why do birds have wings? A biosemiotic argument for the primacy of naturogenic sporting sites2
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 97819429569452
A comparative philosophy of sport and art2
Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: a lively entanglement2
Illusion reconceived: foundations of a lusory theory of sport1
Strength as phenomenon: a pure phenomenology of sport1
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
Why ‘Meaningful Competition’ is not fair competition1
The real ethical problems with strategic fouling in basketball1
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
Cowboy professionalism: a cultural study of big-mountain tourism in the last frontier1
Magnificent Utopian games1
Democracy, philosophy and sport: animating the agonistic spirit1
Non-ideal theory, cultural studies, and the transgender inclusion debate1
How bad can good sport be?1
The shared innocence of cycling and mixed martial arts: a reply to Pho and White1
A functional analysis of cheating and corruption in sports1
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
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
Athletes as workers1
The parental dilemma of talented children1
What money can buy: technology and breaking the two-hour ‘marathon’ record1
In defense of medically supervised doping1
Why privilege the Europeans? A discussion of FIFA’s rules for international transfers for under-18 players1
The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games0
Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity0
Fairness in handicap and championship sport0
Is WADA creating and then prosecuting thought crimes?0
MMA and the purist/partisan distinction0
Sport as part of a meaningful life0
‘The hand of God’: hierophany and transcendence through sport0
Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport0
Sport Realism: A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport0
Scales of ignorance: an ethical normative framework to account for relative risk of harm in sport categorization0
Return of the Grasshopper: Games, Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium0
A critical note on a purported disanalogy between cycling and mixed martial arts0
Why have North American sport philosophers ignored race?0
Esports, real sports and the Olympic Virtual Series0
Sport and Moral Conflict0
Gratuitous risk: danger and recklessness perception of adventure sports participants0
Steve Prefontaine: artist on the track?0
A Husserlian contribution: concerning intentional movement and understanding in sporting activities0
Freeride skiing – the values of freedom and creativity0
The business and culture of sports: society, politics, economy, environment0
‘Life outside the diamond is a wrench’: on experiencing talent loss in sports0
A defence of tanking in sports0
The family, the team, and special responsibilities0
World Athletics regulations unfairly affect female athletes with differences in sex development0
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science0
Ethical discourses for and against doping in sport philosophy0
Interpretivism, sport realism, and the vice of formalism0
On the good conduct of sports0
Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education Phenomenology and pedagogy in physical education , by Oyvind Standal, New York, Routledge, 2016, $149.98 (hardback), ISB0
Ultra sports as nature sports (proper)0
Two concepts of sporting excellence0
The burden of over-representation: race, sport, and philosophy0
The idle life of the Grasshopper: a response to J. S. Russell0
The intelligibility and adequacy of late-stage utopian games0
Foul-weather fandom0
Virtuous connections along Russell’s route0
Sport, games, and the fluidity of agency0
How to be a fictionalist about sport: response to Archer and Wojtowicz0
Sex, fairness and the World Athletics regulations: a reply to Bowman-Smart et al.0
What do players do in a game? A Habermasian perspective0
Epistemological and cognitive aspects of the phenomenon of dance and corporeality0
Wonder and the sublime in surfing and nature sports0
On the justification for World Rugby’s ban on trans women: assessing key arguments in the debate0
In defense of religion-sport separation in coaching0
The moral proximity of rooting0
Risky rescues revisited0
Embodied wisdom: philosophical reflections on boxing as a formative educational practice0
The role of risk in nature sports0
Easy games are still games for Suits0
On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports0
Risky rescues – a reply to Patrick Findler0
Deleuze and sport: towards a general athleticism of thought0
Trash talk and Kantian values0
The opacity of play: a reply to commentators0
Into the glidescape: an outline of gliding sports from the perspective of applied phenomenology0
Competing for the gods: agonistic rituals in the ancient world (Competiendo para los dioses: los rituals agonísticos en el mundo antíguo)0
Russell’s jurisprudence of sport0
J.S. Russell and the democratization of perfectionism0
Categorization, virtues in sport, and the relevance of social injustice: a tribute to J.S. Russell0
Mapping the terrain of sport: a core-periphery model0
Marx’s repulsion and Serres’s turbulence: a Lucretian philosophy of movement0
Somaesthetics and Sport0
A Confucian mutualist theory of sport0
Elements of excellence0
Husserl’s three-part model for intentionality: an examination of players, play acts, and playgrounds0
Trans women participation in sport: A feminist alternative to Pike’s position0
Between adventure and delicacy: sailing as a powerful experience for women0
The paradox of the perfect game0
Atmospheres in sport: a neophenomenological approach0
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