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What is sport?
What distinguishes it from other activities?
That's the kind of question that preoccupies the few philosophers who write about sport.
But it's not the kind of question that interests sports fanatic David Papineau of King's College London.
He has a blog that he devotes to topics in philosophy and sport.
David Papineau, welcome to philosophy bites.
Good afternoon.
I'm very pleased to be here.
The topic we're going to talk about is philosophy and sport.
Why and and not of?
Well, there is a subject, philosophy of sport, philosophy of sport, and it tends to be rather limited in the topics it covers.
What's the nature?
What's the definition of sport?
Why is sport valuable?
Should we allow drugs to be used in sport?