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Rockford University is hosting the Fourth Annual Sport Studies Symposium on Friday, April 24, 2015 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm (CT) in Severson Auditorium, Scarborough Hall, Rockford University, Rockford, IL. The conference is free to attend and light refreshments will be served. Panel One: The Study of Sport  “Breaking Down Binaries: Considering the Possibilities of a Dialogue Between Science Studies and Play Studies” – Matthew Adamson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   “The Long, Slow, Tortured Death of Sport Studies in American Colleges (And the Possible Path Toward Resurrection)” – Stephen D. Mosher, Ph.D. (Ithaca College)   “Conceptualizing the Nature of Sport” – Synthia Sydnor, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Panel Two: Sport Studies as Interdisciplinary  “Interpreting Interpretivism: A Legal Realist Account of Cheating in Sport” -Aaron Harper, Ph.D. (West Liberty University)   “Then and Now:  Sport a...

The University of Gloucestershire Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics website  has several short videos about the Philosophy of Sport with fellow Philosophy of Sport blogger  Dr. Emily Ryall . Dr. Ryall is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire. What is the Philosophy of Sport? A short video interview Should we regard Elite Athletes as Heroes? Is Sport a form of Art? A video interview with Dr Emily Ryall. Sport as form of moral education. Can Sport make us Good? The videos are good introductions to some interesting questions and important issues in Philosophy of Sport.

Introduction,  Cesar R. Torres Part I: History and Development A History of Philosophic Ideas about Sport,  David Lunt and Mark Dyreson Part II: Research Methodology The Philosophy of Sport and Analytic Philosophy,  Scott Kretchmar The Philosophy of Sport and Continental Philosophy,  Vegard Fusche Moe The Philosophy of Sport, Eastern Philosophy and Pragmatism,  Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Koyo Fukasawa and Mizuho Takemura Part III: Current Research and Key Issues Theories of Sport,  Robert L. Simon Fairness and Justice in Sport,  Sigmund Loland The Ethics of Enhancing Performance,  Sarah Teetzel Disability and Sport,  Carwyn Jones Sport, Risk and Danger,  Leslie A. Howe Sport and the Environment–Ecosophical and Metanoetical Intersections,  Ron Welters The Aesthetics of Sport,  Stephen   Mumford Sporting Knowledge,  Gunnar Breivik Sport and Ideology,  Lamartine P. DaCosta Competitive Sport, Moral Development and Peac...

Some UK viewers might have seen the recent BBC Horizon programme on Artificial Intelligence which was a remarkable account of the current abilities of cutting edge computers. However, despite computers having surpassed human ability in many areas (memory, calculations, even general knowledge of trivia) they struggle in many areas where humans excel including the ability to learn new skills - particularly that of kinaesthetic skill development. The programme's presenter, Marcus Du Sautoy, demonstrated how he was able to learn the new skill of balancing across a tightrope with an ease which a machine would find nigh on impossible if they had a body equivalent to ours. This thought led me to a quick online search which produced the 2012 robot football cup which shows you how far machines have to go with being as graceful and skillful as a human player. Nevertheless, even if machines were developed to play football with the same skill as a human, the question remains whether they wou...

For those of you in the UK who can access BBC iplayer, there is a really interesting programme on sex ('gender') tests in sport. Definitely worth a listen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0132l7q/The_Sex_Test/

Readers might be interested in this opinion piece from the BBC on professionalism in sport: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14462759