Ethics in Sport

Ethics in Sport, Fourth Edition, offers a total of 33 essays from influential authors. These essays provide readers with classic and contemporary views on ethical issues in today’s sport culture.

The fourth edition of Ethics in Sport contains nine new essays that address the latest topics in the world of sport that have provoked widespread controversy. These issues concern, among other things, whether esports (electronic sports) are bona fide sports, whether gamesmanship is acceptable in sports competition, and whether transgender athletes who transition from male to female should be allowed to compete in sports reserved for women and under what conditions.

Each part begins with an introduction that encapsulates relevant ethical concepts and contextualizes the issues in the upcoming essays. Throughout the text, discussion questions prompt students to reflect on the information presented and to consider how ethical issues affect our society and their own lives. An instructor guide offers tools to facilitate these discussions as well as over 50 assignment recommendations.

With a wealth of new essays, Ethics in Sport, Fourth Edition, offers philosophical insights from the most influential minds in the study of ethics and keeps readers abreast of current issues.

William J. Morgan, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the division of occupational science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and holds a courtesy appointment in the university’s School of Communication. He has served as editor and has published extensively in the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. He currently serves on the journal’s editorial review board. He has presented numerous papers on the topic of ethics in sport throughout the world and has written several books on the topic: Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory, Why Sports Morally Matter, and Leftist Theories of Sport: A Critique and Reconstruction.

Dr. Morgan is former president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. In 1994, he received the association’s Distinguished Scholar Award. In the same year, he was elected an active fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology.