12 September 2007
Hello everyone, and thanks to Dave for trusting that I’m not going to abuse my privileges as a site author. For those of you that are unaware of the fact: believe it or not, the Sport, Health and…
8 January 2007
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…
8 January 2007
Further to recent darts entries, I have been thinking about whether engagement in sport is something that can foster ethical virtues. It has the rules, and ethics borrows phrases from the world of sports all the time –…
5 January 2007
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…
2 January 2007
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…