Objectives and competences
Students should understand philosophy as a formal field of study and should understand the discipline of sport philosophy.
Students should understand how sport philosophy contributes to the practice of sports.
Students should understand the difference between philosophy and empiricism. They should know that philosophy involves asking questions, posing challenges, and searching for deeper meanings of various issues, while 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 spirit perceive as real.
Content (Syllabus outline)
he 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
Lectures
Position papers-controversial topics.
Research papers and their presentations
Guest speaker-topics of interest
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
The ability to read and comprehend philosophical writings.
The ability to critically and philosophically examine significant issues in sport.
The ability to cogently argue (verbal and written) for or against a variety of issues
The ability to offer new viewpoints on competitive and/or educational practices in sport in order to ultimately improve practices in sport.
The ability to rationalize and defend physical education as having equal value with other academic disciplines and as being integral to the general educational process.
The ability to make sound ethical decisions relative to educational and sport processes and practices.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
The ability to critically examine significant issues in different fields of social practices.
The ability to cogently argue (verbal and written) for or against a variety of issues
The ability to make sound ethical decisions relative to social processes and practices.
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.
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Dodatno literaturo bo nosilec/ka določal/a sprotno v vsakoletnem učnem programu. / Additional literature will be defined every study year by the lecturer.
