Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport by M. McNamee and W. J. Morgan (eds.)

Book review

Abstract

After more than forty years of organised and institutionalised philosophy of sport, the establishment of Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport (PSSS) in 1972 (today International Association for the Philosophy of Sport – IAPS), and several pioneering symposiums the same year (Munich, Brockport New York, Ontario, and again New York), the discipline deserved its first broad overview edition. Mike McNamee and Bill Morgan, two of the most prominent,
distinguished and influential scholars in the field, carriers and promoters of the discipline and its academic strivings, not only in Great Britain (McNamee) and North America (Morgan), but in global terms as well, are the most obvious and in fact unerring choice for being an editors of this edition. I assume that every scholar dealing with sportphilosophy has welcomed this unique edition with acclamation. It is a requisite introspection of the discipline,seeming to have a crucial role in the further development of the discipline for several reasons.