The Conflicting Excellences of Oppositional Sports

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 15 (1):74-87 (2020)
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In this article I develop my argument for a shallow interpretivist theory of sport by showing that whereas it applies to all oppositional sports, the standard theory of sport for the past twenty ye...

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