• Acknowledgements


• Prologue


• Chapter One: The Moral Significance of Sport


• Chapter Two: Winning, Cheating, and the Ethics of Competition


• Chapter Three: Health, Safety, and Violence in Competitive Sport


• Chapter Four: Enhancement, Technology, and Fairness in Competitive Sport


• Chapter Five: Competitive Sport: Education or Mis-Education?


• Chapter Six: Sports, Equity, and Society


• Chapter Seven: Concluding Comment: The Two Sides of the Force or are Sports so Great After All?


• Recommended Readings and References

Robert L. Simon is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Hamilton College. He has written widely on ethical issues is sports as well as on topics in political and social philosophy. He is a past president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and a recipient of its Distinguished Scholar award. He also was head golf coach for 14 years at Hamilton College and his teams participated in national championships.

The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports in a manner that is accessible to a wide audience but which also explores and evaluates arguments on different sides of major controversies in the world of sports, such as the controversy over the use of performance enhancing drugs.