“In life there can be good reasons to break the rules. Some sports philosophers have suggested that this also holds for games. In this essay I will compare and contrast reasons for rule-breaking in life and in sports. Some of my focus will be on recent attempts to defend strategic fouling (by Eylon and Horowitz, Russell, and Flynn). Supporters of strategic fouling try to provide a philosophical underpinning for the practice, but they ignore the genealogy of such rule-violations. I will also discuss how some legal theorists view rule-breaking and contrast this with sport …” (more)
[Miroslav Imbrišević, idrottsforum.org, 17 June]
First posted 2020-06-18 06:15:45
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