Michael Mcnamee
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1727699 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Mcnamee |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Mcnamee |
| FIRMA | MCNAMEE M |
| AFILIACIONES | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5857-909X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science
The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and rules of international sport. Despite being the global repository of state-of-the-art science, diagnostic tools and guides to clinical practice, the ensuing consensus statements remain the object of ethical and sociocultural critic…
Clean athlete status’ cannot be certified
Beyond the orthodox/CAM dichotomy
Elite athletes face extreme challenges to perform at peak levels. Acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries are an occupational hazard while pressures to return to play post-injury are commonplace. Therapeutic options available to elite athletes range from novel 'cutting edge' biomedical therapies, established biomedical and surgical techniques, and physiotherapy, to a variety of non-orthodox therapies. Little is known about how different treatm…
Where biomedicalisation and magic meet
Autonomy, eating disorders and elite gymnastics
Participation in elite sport, and in particular those sports with special demands in terms of weight and shape, is associated with a higher risk for eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa [Sundgot-Borgen, J., & Torstveit, M. K. (2010). Aspects of disordered eating continuum in elite high intensity sports. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20, 112–121]. We report upon research exploring eating attitudes and behaviours with…
Sport, Medicine, Ethics
The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The professionalization of medical support services in sport and continuing debates around issues such as performance-enhancing technologies or the health and welfare of athletes mean that all practitioners in sport, as well as researchers with an interest in sports ethics, need to develop a clear understanding of the ethical aspects of the sport–medicine nexus.…
Physical education as an aesthetic-ethical educational project
Commencing with a discussion of the various conceptions of education for the development of humanity, this essay articulates four essential vectors of educational processes – epistemic, ethical, aesthetic, and political, as they are instantiated in Physical Education. Drawing on philosophical literature, it is argued that the sporting activities that typically comprise physical educational curricula can afford opportunities to experience and to o…
The Death of Sócrates
I hope that Platonists and art historians everywhere, who may have Googled the phrase that is the title of this editorial, will forgive my weakness of will. I simply could not resist penning some w
Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport
Introduction 1 Mike McNamee and Lauri Tarasti: Ethico-legal aspects of anti-doping legislation 2 James E. Coleman Jr. and Joshua Michael Levine: The Burden of Proof in Endogenous Substance Cases: A Masking Agent for Junk Science 3 David McArdle: Longitudinal profiling, sports arbitration and the woman who had nothing to lose. Some Thoughts on Pechstein versus the International Skating Union. 4 Werner Pitsch: Caught between mathematics and ethics:…
Sport, physical activity and well-being
It is widely maintained that sport and physical activities contribute to the development of young people's well-being. Others argue that sports’ contribution to good living is so strong that it is even thought to be a human right. Typically, however, the value of physical activity and sport to our well-being is conceptualized and researched within a subjectivist framework. We reject this framework on three grounds: (1) its impermanence; (2) its h…
Shifting boundaries in sports technology and disability
In Paralympic sports, athletes often depend on some form of equipment to enable activities of daily living, including the ability to participate in sport. Determining precisely when technology assists sports performance and when it transforms or distorts them presents a philosophical and ethical dilemma. We raise the conceptual problem of line-drawing between promoting rights of access to equipment that provide equal opportunity while proscribing…
Clean Olympians? Doping and anti-doping
The World Health Organisation's Rationale for Physical Activity
The World Health Organisation's Rationale for Physical Activity: a Philosophical Critique The World Health Organisation's rationale for physical activity draws heavily on scientific evidence regarding disease and obesity. Greater philosophical reflection on such concepts, along with a recognition that supposed scientific facts are rarely value-free, allow for a more positive and considered argument for physical activity and its benefits. Olympism…
Sports, Virtues and Vices
Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport. The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. T…
British Spectators’ Perceptions of the Values and Norms in Selected Professional Sports
In recent years the British media have made much of the apparent decline of standards in British sports. In order to interrogate the veracity of media assumptions regarding the standards of conduct in major British sports, a selection of British sports spectators were interviewed in order to examine: (i) their perceptions of the values and norms of sport; (ii) whether they thought that sporting conduct as currently demonstrated by UK sportsmen an…
The Nature and Values of Physical Education
There has always been an air of suspicion about those who think philosophically about the nature and values of physical education. On the one hand, physical education teachers are apt to claim that theirs is essentially a practical vocation; a calling to the teaching of physical activities that can help students to live better lives. What need have they of a philosophy? On the other hand, philosophers of education, notably in the liberal-analytic…
Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport
Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport is a unique interdisciplinary study that calls on researchers in these disciplines to reflect more critically on the nature and aims of scientific enquiry. In doing so, the book questions the underlying assumptions and development of science itself. Written by a range of internationally respected philosophers, scientists and social scientists, each chapter addresses a key issue in research…
On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalizations in Sport
This article draws on and extends a series of empirical studies into the nature and extent of racism in selected sports and philosophical explorations of certain virtues and vices in sports more generally. In particular, the article explores dispassionately questions of responsibility and culpability for both committed and unacknowledged racism in sports, and critically evaluates sportspersons' attempts to rationalize it. We argue that it is nece…
Local justice and public sector leisure policy
In the leisure theory literature, local authority leisure services and professionals are frequently criticised as being inequitable in terms of service allocation. The aim of this paper is to extend the idea of leisure as a profession in the light of contrasted political conceptions of justice. We interrogate the problematic notion of social justice in resource allocation decisions made by leisure professionals in public organizations. We present…
The Guilt of Whistling-blowing
This chapter discusses the role conflict of the educational researcher who comes upon an unprofessional relationship between teacher and pupil. It is argued that the whistleblowing literature in related professions, with its focus on standard conditions and solutions framed as obligations, is inadequate. Reference is made to the idea of ‘guilty knowledge’: the feelings of guilt that attach when one comes to know of harm visited on innocent others…
Introduction
The limits of utilitarianism as a professional ethic in public sector leisure policy and provision
In a previous issue of this journal we developed a moral philosophical account of the relations between the paradigmatic leisure profession, leisure management, and it's clientele. Professional status was characterized as a set of relations necessarily involving moral authority and not merely technical expertise as is commonly supposed. In that account, professional paternalism was interpreted and justified differently in relation to the specific…
Moral Reasoning, Moral Action, and the Moral Atmosphere of Sport
Whether sport builds character is a perennial question. It has been argued separately that sport participation contributes to, detracts from, or is neutral when it comes to fostering certain valued traits and dispositions. In this paper we revisit this debate by examining the work of more recent and empirically based contributions to the debate (Bredemeier et al., 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994). Rather than propose certain philosophical arguments …
Paternalism, professionalism and public sector leisure provision
A significant body of research has emerged concerning issues of the professionalization of, and professionalism in, leisure. Much of this literature has focused on the political and/or technical dimensions of the leisure professional and the customers or citizens they purport to serve. In this paper we offer a moral philosophical account of the relations between the paradigmatic leisure profession, leisure management, and its clientele. An accoun…
The ethics of sports
On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalizations in Sport
This article draws on and extends a series of empirical studies into the nature and extent of racism in selected sports and philosophical explorations of certain virtues and vices in sports more generally. In particular, the article explores dispassionately questions of responsibility and culpability for both committed and unacknowledged racism in sports, and critically evaluates sportspersons' attempts to rationalize it. We argue that it is nece…
Philosophy and Physical Education
In this paper / offer both selective summary and critique of the recent philosophical contributions to this journal by Andrew Reid, David Carr and Jim Parry. In the first sections I offer some remarks about the nature of analytical philosophy and its impact on liberal educational writings that have had a significant impact on all British philosophers of physical education. I then offer a critique of the presuppositions of Carr's conceptualisation…
Shifting boundaries in sports technology and disability
In Paralympic sports, athletes often depend on some form of equipment to enable activities of daily living, including the ability to participate in sport. Determining precisely when technology assists sports performance and when it transforms or distorts them presents a philosophical and ethical dilemma. We raise the conceptual problem of line-drawing between promoting rights of access to equipment that provide equal opportunity while proscribing…
Moral Reasoning, Moral Action, and the Moral Atmosphere of Sport
Whether sport builds character is a perennial question. It has been argued separately that sport participation contributes to, detracts from, or is neutral when it comes to fostering certain valued traits and dispositions. In this paper we revisit this debate by examining the work of more recent and empirically based contributions to the debate (Bredemeier et al., 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994). Rather than propose certain philosophical arguments …
Where biomedicalisation and magic meet
The limits of utilitarianism as a professional ethic in public sector leisure policy and provision
In a previous issue of this journal we developed a moral philosophical account of the relations between the paradigmatic leisure profession, leisure management, and it's clientele. Professional status was characterized as a set of relations necessarily involving moral authority and not merely technical expertise as is commonly supposed. In that account, professional paternalism was interpreted and justified differently in relation to the specific…
The Guilt of Whistling-blowing
This chapter discusses the role conflict of the educational researcher who comes upon an unprofessional relationship between teacher and pupil. It is argued that the whistleblowing literature in related professions, with its focus on standard conditions and solutions framed as obligations, is inadequate. Reference is made to the idea of ‘guilty knowledge’: the feelings of guilt that attach when one comes to know of harm visited on innocent others…
Sport, physical activity and well-being
It is widely maintained that sport and physical activities contribute to the development of young people's well-being. Others argue that sports’ contribution to good living is so strong that it is even thought to be a human right. Typically, however, the value of physical activity and sport to our well-being is conceptualized and researched within a subjectivist framework. We reject this framework on three grounds: (1) its impermanence; (2) its h…
British Spectators’ Perceptions of the Values and Norms in Selected Professional Sports
In recent years the British media have made much of the apparent decline of standards in British sports. In order to interrogate the veracity of media assumptions regarding the standards of conduct in major British sports, a selection of British sports spectators were interviewed in order to examine: (i) their perceptions of the values and norms of sport; (ii) whether they thought that sporting conduct as currently demonstrated by UK sportsmen an…
Introduction
Paternalism, professionalism and public sector leisure provision
A significant body of research has emerged concerning issues of the professionalization of, and professionalism in, leisure. Much of this literature has focused on the political and/or technical dimensions of the leisure professional and the customers or citizens they purport to serve. In this paper we offer a moral philosophical account of the relations between the paradigmatic leisure profession, leisure management, and its clientele. An accoun…
Valuing leisure practices; towards a theoretical framework
Physical education as an aesthetic-ethical educational project
Commencing with a discussion of the various conceptions of education for the development of humanity, this essay articulates four essential vectors of educational processes – epistemic, ethical, aesthetic, and political, as they are instantiated in Physical Education. Drawing on philosophical literature, it is argued that the sporting activities that typically comprise physical educational curricula can afford opportunities to experience and to o…
Local justice and public sector leisure policy
In the leisure theory literature, local authority leisure services and professionals are frequently criticised as being inequitable in terms of service allocation. The aim of this paper is to extend the idea of leisure as a profession in the light of contrasted political conceptions of justice. We interrogate the problematic notion of social justice in resource allocation decisions made by leisure professionals in public organizations. We present…
Contractualism and Methodological Individualism and Communitarianism; Situating Understandings of Moral Trust in the Context of Sport and Social Theory
In recent academic discussions about the nature of sport, education and society much has been made of the differing ways of conceiving social relations between individualists and communitarians. I explore some of the theoretical presuppositions of methodological individualism and show how it operates in game and rational choice theory. I set out, in contrast, three related versions of communitarianism. I show how these stances differently interpr…
Valuing leisure practices; towards a theoretical framework
Identity and the self
Contractualism and Methodological Individualism and Communitarianism; Situating Understandings of Moral Trust in the Context of Sport and Social Theory
In recent academic discussions about the nature of sport, education and society much has been made of the differing ways of conceiving social relations between individualists and communitarians. I explore some of the theoretical presuppositions of methodological individualism and show how it operates in game and rational choice theory. I set out, in contrast, three related versions of communitarianism. I show how these stances differently interpr…
Philosophy and Physical Education
In this paper / offer both selective summary and critique of the recent philosophical contributions to this journal by Andrew Reid, David Carr and Jim Parry. In the first sections I offer some remarks about the nature of analytical philosophy and its impact on liberal educational writings that have had a significant impact on all British philosophers of physical education. I then offer a critique of the presuppositions of Carr's conceptualisation…
Moral Reasoning, Moral Action, and the Moral Atmosphere of Sport
Whether sport builds character is a perennial question. It has been argued separately that sport participation contributes to, detracts from, or is neutral when it comes to fostering certain valued traits and dispositions. In this paper we revisit this debate by examining the work of more recent and empirically based contributions to the debate (Bredemeier et al., 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994). Rather than propose certain philosophical arguments …
Paternalism, professionalism and public sector leisure provision
A significant body of research has emerged concerning issues of the professionalization of, and professionalism in, leisure. Much of this literature has focused on the political and/or technical dimensions of the leisure professional and the customers or citizens they purport to serve. In this paper we offer a moral philosophical account of the relations between the paradigmatic leisure profession, leisure management, and its clientele. An accoun…
Just Leisure? The ethics of recognition
The Guilt of Whistling-blowing
This chapter discusses the role conflict of the educational researcher who comes upon an unprofessional relationship between teacher and pupil. It is argued that the whistleblowing literature in related professions, with its focus on standard conditions and solutions framed as obligations, is inadequate. Reference is made to the idea of ‘guilty knowledge’: the feelings of guilt that attach when one comes to know of harm visited on innocent others…
Introduction
The limits of utilitarianism as a professional ethic in public sector leisure policy and provision
In a previous issue of this journal we developed a moral philosophical account of the relations between the paradigmatic leisure profession, leisure management, and it's clientele. Professional status was characterized as a set of relations necessarily involving moral authority and not merely technical expertise as is commonly supposed. In that account, professional paternalism was interpreted and justified differently in relation to the specific…
Local justice and public sector leisure policy
In the leisure theory literature, local authority leisure services and professionals are frequently criticised as being inequitable in terms of service allocation. The aim of this paper is to extend the idea of leisure as a profession in the light of contrasted political conceptions of justice. We interrogate the problematic notion of social justice in resource allocation decisions made by leisure professionals in public organizations. We present…
Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport
Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport is a unique interdisciplinary study that calls on researchers in these disciplines to reflect more critically on the nature and aims of scientific enquiry. In doing so, the book questions the underlying assumptions and development of science itself. Written by a range of internationally respected philosophers, scientists and social scientists, each chapter addresses a key issue in research…
On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalizations in Sport
This article draws on and extends a series of empirical studies into the nature and extent of racism in selected sports and philosophical explorations of certain virtues and vices in sports more generally. In particular, the article explores dispassionately questions of responsibility and culpability for both committed and unacknowledged racism in sports, and critically evaluates sportspersons' attempts to rationalize it. We argue that it is nece…
The Nature and Values of Physical Education
There has always been an air of suspicion about those who think philosophically about the nature and values of physical education. On the one hand, physical education teachers are apt to claim that theirs is essentially a practical vocation; a calling to the teaching of physical activities that can help students to live better lives. What need have they of a philosophy? On the other hand, philosophers of education, notably in the liberal-analytic…
British Spectators’ Perceptions of the Values and Norms in Selected Professional Sports
In recent years the British media have made much of the apparent decline of standards in British sports. In order to interrogate the veracity of media assumptions regarding the standards of conduct in major British sports, a selection of British sports spectators were interviewed in order to examine: (i) their perceptions of the values and norms of sport; (ii) whether they thought that sporting conduct as currently demonstrated by UK sportsmen an…
Sports, Virtues and Vices
Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport. The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. T…
The World Health Organisation's Rationale for Physical Activity
The World Health Organisation's Rationale for Physical Activity: a Philosophical Critique The World Health Organisation's rationale for physical activity draws heavily on scientific evidence regarding disease and obesity. Greater philosophical reflection on such concepts, along with a recognition that supposed scientific facts are rarely value-free, allow for a more positive and considered argument for physical activity and its benefits. Olympism…
Clean Olympians? Doping and anti-doping
Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport
Introduction 1 Mike McNamee and Lauri Tarasti: Ethico-legal aspects of anti-doping legislation 2 James E. Coleman Jr. and Joshua Michael Levine: The Burden of Proof in Endogenous Substance Cases: A Masking Agent for Junk Science 3 David McArdle: Longitudinal profiling, sports arbitration and the woman who had nothing to lose. Some Thoughts on Pechstein versus the International Skating Union. 4 Werner Pitsch: Caught between mathematics and ethics:…
Sport, physical activity and well-being
It is widely maintained that sport and physical activities contribute to the development of young people's well-being. Others argue that sports’ contribution to good living is so strong that it is even thought to be a human right. Typically, however, the value of physical activity and sport to our well-being is conceptualized and researched within a subjectivist framework. We reject this framework on three grounds: (1) its impermanence; (2) its h…
Shifting boundaries in sports technology and disability
In Paralympic sports, athletes often depend on some form of equipment to enable activities of daily living, including the ability to participate in sport. Determining precisely when technology assists sports performance and when it transforms or distorts them presents a philosophical and ethical dilemma. We raise the conceptual problem of line-drawing between promoting rights of access to equipment that provide equal opportunity while proscribing…
The Death of Sócrates
I hope that Platonists and art historians everywhere, who may have Googled the phrase that is the title of this editorial, will forgive my weakness of will. I simply could not resist penning some w
Sport, Medicine, Ethics
The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The professionalization of medical support services in sport and continuing debates around issues such as performance-enhancing technologies or the health and welfare of athletes mean that all practitioners in sport, as well as researchers with an interest in sports ethics, need to develop a clear understanding of the ethical aspects of the sport–medicine nexus.…
Physical education as an aesthetic-ethical educational project
Commencing with a discussion of the various conceptions of education for the development of humanity, this essay articulates four essential vectors of educational processes – epistemic, ethical, aesthetic, and political, as they are instantiated in Physical Education. Drawing on philosophical literature, it is argued that the sporting activities that typically comprise physical educational curricula can afford opportunities to experience and to o…
Autonomy, eating disorders and elite gymnastics
Participation in elite sport, and in particular those sports with special demands in terms of weight and shape, is associated with a higher risk for eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa [Sundgot-Borgen, J., & Torstveit, M. K. (2010). Aspects of disordered eating continuum in elite high intensity sports. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20, 112–121]. We report upon research exploring eating attitudes and behaviours with…
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