ABSTRACT
In the light of the dismissive views for the prospects of philosophy of sport expressed in Chapter 3 and partly reiterated in Chapter 4, moving forward in the philosophy of sport might seem to require working on the ethical questions arising in respect of sport, especially if, as Richard Hare (1971: 98) urged, “the bearing of philosophy on practice [such as sport exemplifies] comes . . . chiefly through moral philosophy”: that is, if that emphasis on the ethical were fairly general. But (to speak personally), moral philosophy or philo sophical ethics just does not ‘float my boat’, not least because its concerns slip readily into those of sociology or psychology when discussing what people do, as a matter of fact, do. One might infer, then, that developments in other directions should be to my taste, insofar as I hold out hope for the future of philosophy of sport. But here one must be circumspect: at least three of the potential areas for philosophical writing, emergent within the litera ture and with their own advocates there, strike me as relatively unpromising directions for a philosophy of sport.
