A new episode of The Sports Ethicist Show is available!
Diving, flopping, going to ground, whatever you call it, it is a controversial issue in sport, especially in Soccer. Is it wrong? What is the nature of the wrongness? Is it cheating? Mike Austin, professor of philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University joins Shawn Klein to discuss these issues.
Related links:
- “Diving in Soccer: Keep the Outrage,” Ethics for Everyone
- “Cheating and Diving” SportsEthicist.com
- Philosophy of Sport Group Blog
- A Useful Inquiry
- Ethics for Everyone, Psychology Today
- The Olympics and Philosophy
- Cycling – Philosophy for Everyone
- Football and Philosophy
- Running and Philosophy
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https://blubrry.com/sports_ethics_show/2315564/the-sports-ethicist-show-diving-and-cheating-in-soccer/
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In slow motion things look like diving that do not look like diving in real time. Are we losing the capacity to view sport (a) in real time and (b) without technological interventions?