Philosophy, risk, and adventure sports
By: [edited by] Mike J McNamee.
Contributors: McNamee, M. J.
Publisher: New York; Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415351843; 9780415351850
Subjects: Outdoor recreation; Extreme sports; Sports -- Philosophy
Table of contents: title: The quest for excitement and the safe society / Gunnar Breivik; title: Legislators and interpreters : an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of being a mountaineer / Paul Beedie; title: Philosophy outdoors : first person physical / John Michael Atherton; title: Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of bolting / Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson; title: Reading water : risk, intuition, and insight / Douglas Anderson; title: Nature and risk in adventure sports / Kevin Krein; title: Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places / Alan P. Dougherty; title: Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding / Sigmund Loland; title: The performative avant-garde and action sports : vedic philosophy in a postmodern world / Robert E. Rinehart; title: Extreme sports and the ontology of experience / Ivo Jirásek; title: Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza; title: Can basejumping be morally defended? / Gunnar Breivik; title: Walking the edge / Verner Møller.