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Bernard Williams (1929-2003)

by A. W. Moore
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Obituary]

Sports and Drugs (and rock and roll?)

Jessie Burdick wonders whether it is cheating for athletes to take dietary supplements, and we ask you, the reader, to tell us what you think.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]

You’ll Swing For This!

Adam Carter examines the most morally corrupting sport of all.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]

Dilemmas

by Adam Carter
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Articles]

Myles Brand

Myles Brand has just become President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Formerly a philosophy professor, his academic research is into the nature of human action. Tim Madigan finds out how sport’s new philosopher-king sees his new job.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Interview]

Sport and Moral Relativity

Hal Charnofsky argues that in a society obsessed with competition, sport is bad for our souls.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]

Philippa Foot

Philippa Foot has for decades been one of Oxford’s best-known and most original ethicists. Her groundbreaking papers won her worldwide recognition but at the dawn of the new century she has finally published her first full-length book. Editor Rick Lewis asked her about goodness, vice, plants and Nietzsche.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Interview]

The Kantian Coach

Tim Madigan thinks that Immanuel Kant wouldn’t have made a very popular coach, but would have worked wonders for the spirit of fair play.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]

Gladiator

Stoics on the Big Screen? John Sellars examines the ancient philosophy which surfaces in Gladiator.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Films]

Wrestling with Ideas

by Peter Rickman (a.k.a.“The Professor”)
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]