Ivo Van Hilvoorde

• PhD
• Professor at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences

Buildering—a combination of the words “bouldering” and “building”—is the activity of climbing urban structures, often without safety equipment. A dangerous, mostly illegal activity, buildering fi rst rose to prominence in the US along with the rise of the skyscraper at the beginning of the twentieth century, although an earlier form known as “roof...

According to recent Dutch policy, the level of integration between schools and sports is related to school bonding and long-term sport participation. A recent innovation in the Netherlands has been the development of sport campuses where schools and sporting clubs are located near each other, though without the curricular (or extra-curricular) inte...

Does elite sporting success have a lasting impact on national pride? Like many other countries, the Dutch government increased investments in elite sports in the last decennium, partly driven by the ambition to organize the Olympic Games in 2028 in the Netherlands. One of the most important legitimations for this ambition is that elite sports eve...

The Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) have their own traditions when it comes down to sports. Sports such as football, cycling (Belgium) or skating (the Netherlands) take center stage with the sports-minded public, and are a central element in popular culture, somewhat similar to the way cricket is part of the British culture. Since many...

Op het moment van schrijven wordt in de Tweede Kamer en door voetbalorganisaties nagedacht over aanscherping van de Voetbalwet, die het geweld in en rondom de stadions moet tegengaan. Hoewel de aanleiding in dit geval betreurenswaardig is, namelijk toenemende agressie in de sport, voert de combinatie van sport, geweld en politiek naar het werk va...

Technological developments for disabled athletes may facilitate their competition in standard elite sports. They raise intriguing philosophical questions that challenge dominant notions of body and normality. The case of 'bladerunner' Oscar Pistorius in particular is used to illustrate and defend 'transhumanist' ideologies that promote the use of t...

De markt van "de maakbaarheid" is enorm: van deep brain stimulation tot neuroprothesen, van bionische oren en ogen tot gendoping. Beheerst de mens de keuze en richting van deze technologiegolf nog?

Elite sport is often regarded as one of the main vehicles for articulating national pride and stimulating national cohesion. In this article, we explore a variety of different notions of pride and nationality as related to success in elite sport. We present the results of a public survey, which measured some of the effects on national pride in the...

Technological developments within elite sports for disabled athletes raise intriguing philosophical questions that challenge dominant notions of the body and of normality. The case of ‘bladerunner Oscar Pistorius’ in particular is used to illustrate and defend ‘transhuman’ ideologies, in which the use of technology is promoted to extend all human c...

Sports medicine ethics is neither a well established branch of sports medicine nor of medical ethics. It is therefore important to raise to more general awareness some of the significant ethical implications of sports medicine practices. The field of genetics in sports is likewise in its infancy and raises significant ethical concerns. It is not ye...

Technological progress offers a host of opportunities for people of all sorts, shapes and sizes. Yet everything in our society seems to be dominated by an urge for uniformity. Commerce and the media increasingly dictate how we look at ourselves and at others: perfection is the norm. But what is that norm and who actually meets it? Where do we draw...

While sports and physical education originated in the nineteenth century, fitness on the other hand is generally seen as a typically late-twentieth-century phenomenon. In order to understand how the modern fitness culture has become what it is today, it is important to recognize how some of its roots had already evolved more than a century before....

It seems fairly straightforward to describe what should and should not count as a disability Into two separate and opposing categories. In this paper we will challenge this assumption and critically reflect on the narrow relations between the concepts of ‘talent’ and ‘disability’. We further relate such matters of terminology and classification to...

The application of genetic technology seems to threaten what is considered natural in elite sport. This paper explores the role of genetic technology in elite sport and questions the significance of clichotomizing between the natural and artificial element. How do shifts in technology affect the attribution of the human element in athletic performa...

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In this paper, we explore and reflect critically on what elite sport may expect or fear from genetic technologies. In particular, we explore the language in which we (where ‘‘we’’ denotes scientists, sports scientists, the media, sports coaches, academics) tend to speak about genetics, elite sport, and the human body – we call this language ‘‘gene-...

Inleiding 'Onze welvaartsstaat, waarin de mensen steeds meer vrije tijd ter beschikking hebben gekregen en waarin de georganiseerde sportbeoefening een verworven goed is voor alle lagen van de bevolking, doet ons licht vergeten, dat de tijd nog niet ver achter ons ligt, dat de dagen geheel met de dagelijks arbeid gevuld waren en van sport nagenoeg...

The modern system of science is internally differentiated into disciplines. The boundaries of disciplines are not well-defined or stable. There is no longer an encyclopedic classification principle; modern disciplines organize themselves. The patterns of communication of a discipline are made possible by scientific periodicals. Publications can con...

Sportfilosofie en haar centrale vragen Sportfilosofie heeft haar academische wortels in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw, met de oprichting van de International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (in 1972) en het Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (1974). In Nederland heeft sportfilosofie een academische plek verworven aan het begin van de...