Objectives and competences

Students should understand philosophy as a formal field of study and should understand philosophy of sport as its subfield.. • Students should understand how philosophy of sport contributes to the practice of sports. • Students should understand the difference between philosophy and common sense empiricism. They should know that philosophy involves asking questions, posing challenges, and searching for deeper meanings of various issues, while common sense empiricism involves the search for factual evidence that can be seen, heard, felt, measured, etc. • Students should understand that being a philosopher involves contemplating the differences between the “real world,” where knowledge and truth rest in concrete material existence and the “ideal world,” where knowledge and truth rest in what the mind and consciousness perceive as real.

Content (Syllabus outline)

Philosophy of sport is concerned with the conceptual analysis and interrogation of key ideas and issues of sports and related practices. At its most general level, it is concerned with articulating the nature and purposes of sport. The philosophy of sport not only gathers insights from the various fields of philosophy aTs they open up our appreciation of sports practices and institutions, but also generates substantive and comprehensive views of sport itself. The philosophy of sport is never fixed: its methods demand an inherently self-critical conception of intellectual activity; one that challenges its own preconceptions and guiding principles continuously both as to the nature and purposes of philosophy and of sports. An essential part of the course on philosophy of sport portion is naturaly more abstract, but there will be also substantial party which will be centered on applied work include research into diverse conceptions of equity in operation with respect to categories such as gender and race; arbitrating between proper and improper means of performance enhancement and genetic engineering; illuminating the fascistic tendencies of elite sports or the xenophobia of modern sporting nationalism.

Learning and teaching methods

lecture, the method of discourse, problem-solving, mehod of presentation, method of working with text, cooperative learning

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

Knowledge and understanding: • critically and philosophically examine significant issues in sport. • cogently argue (verbal and written) for or against a variety of issues • offer new viewpoints on competitive and/or educational practices in sport in order to ultimately improve practices in sport. • rationalize and defend physical education as having equal value with other academic disciplines and as being integral to the general educational process. • make sound ethical decisions relative to educational and sport processes and practices.

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

Readings

Klasični filozofski teksti – izbrani odlomki: Platon, Aristotel, Descartes, Locke, Mill, Rawls, Moore, Wittgenstein, Russell. (Po večini so prevedeni v slovenščino). Izbor temeljnhi tekstov iz filozofije športa (zgolj v tujih jezikih, zato navajam samo – kot možnost – tri): Holowchak, M. A. (Ed.). (2002). Philosophy of sport: Critical readings, crucial issues. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. McNamee, M., W. J. Morgan (eds.) (2014) ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT. London: Routledge. Torres, C. R. (ed.) (2015) The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport. London: Bloomsbury. Dodatno literaturo bo nosilec/ka določal/a sprotno v vsakoletnem učnem programu. / Additional literature will be defined every study year by the lecturer.

Prerequisits

There are no prerequisites for entering the subject.