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  • Interview to Warren Fraleigh
    Unknown author (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
  • La corrupción en el deporte
    Malem, Jorge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    Corruption is a global phenomenon. It is not surprising that it affects sports too. The first step to understand properly this phenomenon is its conceptualization and typology. The effects of corruption destroy and affect ...
  • On Creativity in Sporting Activity: With Some Consequences for Education
    Campos, Daniel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    This paper proposes a definition of sporting creativity that is based on a phenomenological account of sporting experience. Taking philosophical cues from the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, it argues that creativity ...
  • Taking games seriously 
Sportmanship and the paradox of zero-sum games
    Azevedo, Marco Antonio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    Competitive games are zero-sum games; would be sports zero-sum practices? Aurel Kolnai said that game players exhibit an odd volitional posture that turns games into paradoxes. Bernard Suits disagreed. In zero-sum games, ...
  • The Aesthetic Experience of the Combat athletes in Taekwondo
    Cardozo Coelho, Rebeca; Kreft, Lev; Lacerda, Teresa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
     The research on the aesthetic experience may be focused both on the athlete's perspective and on the observer’s. Although some studies have already emphasized the importance of sportsman’s aesthetic experience, it is ...
  • What are we cheering? Sport and the value of valuing
    Smith, Tara (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    Against the dismissal of sport as “only a game” not worth the deep investment that so many fans make in it, sport is often defended on the grounds that it cultivates important virtues of character that are useful in a range ...

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