Philosophy, risk, and adventure sports / edited by Mike J McNamee.
Contributor(s): McNamee, M. J. (Mike J.).
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2007Description: xi, 202 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415351843 (hbk.).Subject(s): Outdoor recreation | Extreme sports | Sports -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 796.5Item type | Current location | Shelf location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU |
Floor 4, Shelf Transit , Side 1, TierNo 4, BayNo 8 |
796.5 PHI (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | SHTEx,70005,02,GR | 5000038101 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk / Mike Mcnamee -- The quest for excitement and the safe society / Gunnar Breivik -- Legislators and interpreters : an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of being a mountaineer / Paul Beedie -- Philosophy outdoors : first person physical / John Michael Atherton -- Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of bolting / Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- Reading water : risk, intuition, and insight / Douglas Anderson -- Nature and risk in adventure sports / Kevin Krein -- Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places / Alan P. Dougherty -- Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding / Sigmund Loland -- The performative avant-garde and action sports : vedic philosophy in a postmodern world / Robert E. Rinehart -- Extreme sports and the ontology of experience / Ivo Jirasek -- Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza -- Can basejumping be morally defended? / Gunnar Breivik -- Walking the edge / Verner Mller.