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Defining Sport

ALSO SEE OUR SHORT VIDEO INTERVIEWS ON PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT AT: https://uniofglos.blog/rpe/category/sport/ As promised: a longer consideration of the nature of ‘Sport’. This is by my colleague, Dr Emily Ryall, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy over at the Faculty of…

Gloucestershire Philosophical Society

Hi – the Gloucestershire Philosophical Society programme for the coming months is below – or see their website for details: http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/gps/ The Phil Soc also now have their own blog at: http://glosphilsoc.blogspot.com – which is new, but will…

Darts, Sport and Classics

While reading around darts, I came across this quote from darts commentator Sid Waddell who once said (of Eric Bristow – “the crafty cockney”) : ‘When Alexander the Great was 33 he cried salt tears because there were…

Darts a sport?

See the discussion of what a sport is (and whether darts counts as one)at:http://r-p-e.blogspot.com/2007/01/defining-sport.html as well – as that offers more detail than this short version… OK – guess what I got for Christmas… As hinted at by…

Reading Lists (and more)

Well, firstly – Happy New Year to all – and secondly, to more pressing matters… Second years will be revising for the modules where they have exams – but of course, first year (level) Religion, Philosophy & Ethics…