ABSTRACT
Mark Hamilton is associate professor of philosophy and NCAA faculty athletics representative at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, where he has taught since 1981. Dr. Hamilton has graduate degrees in philosophy, religion and counseling and has published numerous articles and chapters on sports ethics in books such as Baseball and Philosophy, The Image of God in the Human Body, Basketball and Philosophy, Football and Philosophy, and his article on the morality of surgical enhancement for athletic performance has been widely circulated. Besides sports ethics, he has taught numerous courses in philosophy of religion, ancient philosophy, ethics, Christian thought, human nature, and on C.S. Lewis. Hamilton is active in the International Association of Philosophy of Sport. He has been married 28 years with two adult daughters and sons-in-law and a granddaughter, co-pastors a reformed church and in 2007 he survived a liver transplant. He played and coached collegiate baseball.
