Sport and Moral Conflict

“Morgan is a top scholar, and he presents a fully novel and provocative interpretation of sport ethics. His cross-disciplinary approach of using both history and philosophy to provide ethical guidance is unique. The employment of essentially deep historical tradition as a warrant for defensible moral positions is bold.”— R. Scott Kretchmar, Professor Emeritus of Exercise and Sport Science in the Department of Kinesiology at Penn State University

“A full study of the moral status of sport is necessary and long overdue. Morgan looks seriously at the relative merits of the basic positions, ultimately defending one of them—conventionalism. He displays a complete mastery of the literature, an attention to detail, and a balanced approach to the subject. This work is indispensable in our field: there is no one in the history of the philosophy of sport who has presented such a thorough and challenging critique of moral realism in sport. Sport and Moral Conflict showed me how much richer and more difficult the argument truly is.”—Paul Gaffney, Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University and Editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport