Daphne Wiggins
Biographic Data
| ID | 108770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daphne Wiggins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daphne |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiggins |
| SIGNATURE | WIGGINS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5349-4620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Jimmie McDaniel, Don Budge, and the 1940 Exhibition Tennis Match in Harlem
This article assesses the significance of the July 29, 1940, interracial exhibition tennis match between Jimmie McDaniel and Don Budge held at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club in Harlem. Sponsored by the Wilson Sporting Goods Company, the match was brimming with racial symbolism, pitting Budge, the great white champion, against Jimmie McDaniel, an outstanding Black player from Xavier University in New Orleans, at a time when the United States Lawn Te…
Elliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art (1986)
Some of the scholarly books on the history of sport I admire the most were published during the 1980s. The decade, impacted by the influence of the recently created North American Society for Sport History, increasing recognition by academicians of the importance of “taking sport seriously,” and the addition of sport-related courses in university curriculums, saw the publication of a plethora of monographs that have furnished important insights i…
Deliberation and Practical Reason
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Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis
This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. The book opens with a summary but selective account of a century’s work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and Wittgenstein to the late twentieth century…
Kobe Bryant’s Second Act
Vince Matthews, Wayne Collett, and the Forgotten Disruption in Munich
This essay assesses the refusal of Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett to adhere to expected decorum on the victory stand during the 1972 Summer Olympic games. The two athletes failed to act within stipulated parameters by turning their backs to the American flag during the playing of the national anthem and casually chatting with hands on hips. Because of their refusal to act appropriately, Matthews and Collett were banned from the Olympic games fo…
Charles Holston Williams
Charles Holston Williams, a long-time faculty member at Hampton Institute, the historically black college and university founded by the American Missionary Association that trained both African American and Native American students, had an enduring career and a significant impact on higher education for minority groups. A native of Kentucky and alumnus of Hampton Institute who took an undergraduate degree in physical education from Springfield Co…
The Color of My Writing”
In this essay, I reflect on my many years of researching and analyzing the interconnections among race, sport, and American culture. To some extent, it is a look back at my experiences as a white academic studying African American athletes and how they have navigated the racial lines in their efforts to become full participants in sport. The essay is also my assessment of the role of sport in African American communities and what part it has play…
Sport and Revolutionaries
This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more romantic view of sport and believe in its apolitical nature, the chapters in this book help make clear how sport has served as a site for political activism and the revolutionary thought and practices of such individuals as Henry Mayers Hyndman, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Harry…
Black Athletes in White Men's Games’
This essay provides an overview of the efforts made by African Americans to compete with and against their white counterparts on an equal basis in highly organised sport in the USA. These efforts have resulted in a relatively large number of African Americans participating in football, basketball, and track and very small representation in baseball, golf, tennis, stock car racing and a host of other national pastimes. A result of historical conte…
The Struggle That Must Be ’
This essay assesses the contributions of Harry Edwards to the Civil Rights Movement and the quest for racial equality in the USA. Through the utilisation of Edwards' own writings and a number of other primary and secondary sources, it examines how Edwards attempted to secure equality of opportunities for Black athletes and how he used sport in the battle for racial justice and fairness. It is evident that Edwards is a revolutionary who has altere…
Symbols of Possibility
Taking Morality Seriously
It has been felt for a long time that there must be some intimate connection between people's needs and the abstract rights they have. H. L. A. Hart was giving voice to a strong and widespread intuition when he wrote: A concept of legal rights limited to those cases where the law ... respects the choice of individuals would be too narrow. For there is a form of the moral criticism of law which ... is inspired by regard for the needs of individual…
An Indefinibilist cum Normative View of Truth and the Marks of Truth
With All Deliberate Speed”
Research Article| October 01 2010 "With All Deliberate Speed": High School Sport, Race, and Brown v. Board of Education David K. Wiggins David K. Wiggins School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism, George Mason University Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (3): 329–346. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.3.329 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Solidarity and the Root of the Ethical
This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 2008, given by David Wiggins, a British philosopher.
What is the Order Among the Varieties of Goodness? A Question Posed by von Wright; and a Conjecture Made by Aristotle
The great variousness and plurality of goodness has given comfort to general scepticism about values and a multitude of metaethical attitudes or predilections. But is this variousness and plurality really the hotch-potch it has appeared? The paper recapitulates and expands von Wright's typology of the varieties of goodness and looks to explain the order or system that underlies the phenomena by developing and extending a conjecture of Aristotle's…
Objectivity in Ethics; Two Difficulties, Two Responses
The paper, based on the H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture in Jurisprudence and Moral Philosophy, delivered in Oxford on 11th May 2004, sets out to answer two difficulties which the late J. L. Mackie proposed (in his book Ethics: Inventing Right & Wrong) against the idea of objectivity in ethics. These were (1) the metaphysical peculiarity (‘queerness’) of values and obligations and (2) the ‘well known variation in moral codes from one society to anoth…
Précis of Sameness and Substance Renewed
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Neo-Aristotelian Reflections on Justice
Journal Article Neo-Aristotelian Reflections on Justice Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins New College, Oxford, OX1 3BN, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume 113, Issue 451, July 2004, Pages 477–512, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/113.451.477 Published: 01 July 2004
Sameness and Substance Renewed
In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he vindicates the absoluteness, necessity, determinateness and all or nothing character of identity aga…
II – David Wiggins
Evans was not wrong (i maintain) to say that the senses of genuine proper names invoke and require objects. Names in fiction or hypothesis mimic such names. Pace Evans, Sainsbury and free logicians, proper names are scopeless. (Evans’s ‘Julius’ is not a name.) Names create a presumption of existential generalization. In sentences such as ‘Vulcan does not really exist’, that presumption is bracketed. The sentence specifies by reference to story or…
Conditionals
Glory Bound
Journal Article Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America. By David K. Wiggins. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xx, 302 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8156-2733-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8156-2734-3.) Get access Rob Ruck Rob Ruck University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1472–1473, https://…
Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture
Journal Article Ethnicity and Sport in North American His m tory and Culture. Ed. by George Eisen and David K. Wiggins. (Westport: Greenwood, 1994. xx, 249 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-313-28814-3.) Get access William M. Simons William M. Simons State University of New York, Oneonta, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 675, https://doi.org/10…
Black Athletes in White Men's Games’
This essay provides an overview of the efforts made by African Americans to compete with and against their white counterparts on an equal basis in highly organised sport in the USA. These efforts have resulted in a relatively large number of African Americans participating in football, basketball, and track and very small representation in baseball, golf, tennis, stock car racing and a host of other national pastimes. A result of historical conte…
What is the Order Among the Varieties of Goodness? A Question Posed by von Wright; and a Conjecture Made by Aristotle
The great variousness and plurality of goodness has given comfort to general scepticism about values and a multitude of metaethical attitudes or predilections. But is this variousness and plurality really the hotch-potch it has appeared? The paper recapitulates and expands von Wright's typology of the varieties of goodness and looks to explain the order or system that underlies the phenomena by developing and extending a conjecture of Aristotle's…
The year of awakening’
This article is part of the following collections: The International Journal of the History of Sport Best Article Prize: Early Winners (1984-2009)
The Sense and Reference of Predicates
Journal Article The Sense and Reference of Predicates: a Running Repair to Frege’s Doctrine and a Plea for the Copula Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 136, July 1984, Pages 311–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218763 Published: 01 July 1984
Ethics, Value and Reality
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Ethics, Value and Reality.. BY Aurel Kolnai Bernard Williams David Wiggins. (London, The Athlono Press 1977. Pp. xxv + 251. Price £9) D. Z. Phillips D. Z. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 112, July 1978, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218854 Published: 01 July 1978
The Struggle That Must Be ’
This essay assesses the contributions of Harry Edwards to the Civil Rights Movement and the quest for racial equality in the USA. Through the utilisation of Edwards' own writings and a number of other primary and secondary sources, it examines how Edwards attempted to secure equality of opportunities for Black athletes and how he used sport in the battle for racial justice and fairness. It is evident that Edwards is a revolutionary who has altere…
The Right and the Good and W. D. Ross's Criticism of Consequentialism
David Ross made the first sustained attack on Moore's agathistic utilitarianism or ethical neutralism – the first attack, that is, on a consequentialism purified of ethical naturalism. Ross started out with an important idea about the difference (in the sphere of action) between the right and the good, and a good appreciation of the dialectical situation about consequentialism. His attack, based on the personal character of duty, is greatly hampe…
Sport and Revolutionaries
This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more romantic view of sport and believe in its apolitical nature, the chapters in this book help make clear how sport has served as a site for political activism and the revolutionary thought and practices of such individuals as Henry Mayers Hyndman, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Harry…
With All Deliberate Speed”
Research Article| October 01 2010 "With All Deliberate Speed": High School Sport, Race, and Brown v. Board of Education David K. Wiggins David K. Wiggins School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism, George Mason University Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2010) 37 (3): 329–346. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.37.3.329 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Précis of Sameness and Substance Renewed
Essentialism, continuity, and identity
Sentence Meaning, Negation, and Plato’s Problem of Non-Being
An analysis of Sophist 236E ff. The sentential variant of the problem of non-being in dialogues earlier than Theaetetus and Sophist. II. The display theory of sentence meaning as an escape from Plato's problem of false judgement. The theory's inability to accommodate negation. III. Plato's analytical approach to the problem of sentence-sense in Sophist, and anticipations of this in Cratylus and Theaetetus. IV. Relevant points from the discussion …
Essentialism, continuity, and identity
Vi Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness
Ethics, Value and Reality
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Ethics, Value and Reality.. BY Aurel Kolnai Bernard Williams David Wiggins. (London, The Athlono Press 1977. Pp. xxv + 251. Price £9) D. Z. Phillips D. Z. Phillips Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 112, July 1978, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218854 Published: 01 July 1978
Deliberation and Practical Reason
Ethics, Value and Reality
Wiggins' Second Thoughts on Identity
Journal Article Wiggins’ Second Thoughts on Identity Get access David Wiggins, Sameness and Substance. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. Pp. 238. Price £12.50 Harold Noohan Harold Noohan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 260–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219116 Published: 01 July 1981
Heraclitus' conceptions of flux, fire and material persistence
Even when they are most worthy of amazement, things of daily occurrence pass us by unnoticed.Seneca, Quaestiones Naturales 7.1.1
Work, Leisure, and Sport in America
Sameness and Substance
The Sense and Reference of Predicates
Journal Article The Sense and Reference of Predicates: a Running Repair to Frege’s Doctrine and a Plea for the Copula Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 136, July 1984, Pages 311–328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218763 Published: 01 July 1984
XIV—Verbs and Adverbs, and Some Other Modes of Grammatical Combination
Categorical Requirements
Journal Article Categorical Requirements: Kant and Hume on the Idea of Duty Get access David Wiggins David Wiggins Birkbeck College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 74, Issue 1, 1 January 1991, Pages 83–106, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19917413 Published: 09 December 2014
Aborigines in Sport
The year of awakening’
This article is part of the following collections: The International Journal of the History of Sport Best Article Prize: Early Winners (1984-2009)
Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture
Journal Article Ethnicity and Sport in North American His m tory and Culture. Ed. by George Eisen and David K. Wiggins. (Westport: Greenwood, 1994. xx, 249 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-313-28814-3.) Get access William M. Simons William M. Simons State University of New York, Oneonta, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 675, https://doi.org/10…
Sortal Concepts
Congregation and Community
Deliberation and Practical Reason
In Book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle treats a restricted and technical notion of deliberation, which makes it unnecessary for him to consider anything but technical or so¬ called productive examples of practical reason. It is not surprising in the context of Book 3 that deliberation is never of ends but always of means. When he came to write Books 6 and 7of the Nicomachean Ethics and De Anima 3.7, Aristotle analysed a much less restricte…
Claims of Need
It has been felt for a long time that there must be some intimate connection between the needs of human beings and their abstract rights. H.L.A. Hart was giving voice to a strong and widespread intuition when he wrote: A concept of legal rights limited to those cases where the law... respects the choice of individuals would be too narrow. For there is a form of the moral criticism of law which ... is inspired by regard for the needs of individual…
Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life
Even now, in an age not much given to mysticism, there are people who ask ‘What is the meaning of life?’ Not a few of them make the simple ‘unphilosophical’ assumption that there is something to be known here. (One might say that they are ‘cognitivists’ with regard to this sort of question.) And most of these same people make the equally unguarded assumption that the whole issue of life’s meaning presupposes some positive answer to the question w…
The Right and the Good and W. D. Ross's Criticism of Consequentialism
David Ross made the first sustained attack on Moore's agathistic utilitarianism or ethical neutralism – the first attack, that is, on a consequentialism purified of ethical naturalism. Ross started out with an important idea about the difference (in the sphere of action) between the right and the good, and a good appreciation of the dialectical situation about consequentialism. His attack, based on the personal character of duty, is greatly hampe…
Glory Bound
Journal Article Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America. By David K. Wiggins. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. xx, 302 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8156-2733-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8156-2734-3.) Get access Rob Ruck Rob Ruck University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1472–1473, https://…
Needs, values, truth
II – David Wiggins
Evans was not wrong (i maintain) to say that the senses of genuine proper names invoke and require objects. Names in fiction or hypothesis mimic such names. Pace Evans, Sainsbury and free logicians, proper names are scopeless. (Evans’s ‘Julius’ is not a name.) Names create a presumption of existential generalization. In sentences such as ‘Vulcan does not really exist’, that presumption is bracketed. The sentence specifies by reference to story or…
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