Jim Parry

Jim Parry
Charles University in Prague | CUNI · Faculty of Physical Education and Sport

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September 2010 - present
Charles University in Prague
Position
  • Professor
January 1987 - July 2010
University of Leeds
Position
  • Head of Department

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This paper discusses the nature and values of eligibility rules in sport. It shows the relationship of eligibility rules to constitutive rules, and highlights their importance for the inclusion of different kinds of athletes. The main function of eligibility rules is to categorize of athletes and to prescribe who is and is not permitted to take par...
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This introductory article in the special section of the journal Movimento explores global perspectives on sports ethics, highlighting that philosophical thought focuses on “open” questions and values conceptual precision and critical inquiry. The text provides an overview of the section's articles, covering topics such as the career and reflections...
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The aim of this article is to examine how different types of sports rules place unique demands upon athletes with regard to their weight and how these demands condition different strategies of weight management. We categorized sports rules into three main categories according to their relationship to weight: 1) sports with weight-prescribing rules;...
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Since Olympism achieves its ends through the medium of sport, it cannot escape the requirement to provide an account of sport which reveals both its nature and its ethical potential. I define ‘Olympic sports’ as institutionalised rule-governed contests of human physical skill. This conceptual account provides both a definition of Olympic sport and...
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BACKGROUND: The development of moral competence seems to be an important factor in the context of youth development. The problem with lack of moral competence among youth has often been observed. Physical education (PE) as a subject in school seems to provide space in the curriculum where moral development can and should be experienced and practice...
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Despite reservations over the status of esports as sports, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has, for policy reasons, encouraged International Federations to pursue links with providers of ‘virtual and simulated’ sports, in part by the introduction of an event, the Olympic Virtual Series, first held in 2021. In providing an account of ‘virt...
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This is a book symposium on Kevin Krein’s Philosophy and Nature Sports. Gunnar Breivik, Jim Parry and Irena Martínková, and Rebekah Humphreys provide critical commentary on the text. The critical comments are followed by a response from Krein. The discussion covers a broad range of topics. These include the definition of “sport,” comparisons betwee...
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The recent alleged doping case of the figure skater Kamila Valieva at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing 2022 dramatically raised the issue of the protection of minors in anti-doping policy. We firstly present the literature on doping in relation to minors. Secondly, we present WADA’s Protected Person (PP) concept and its implications. Thirdly, we...
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This paper side-steps the question of whether ‘the’ concept of sport exists, or can be usefully analysed. Instead, I try to explain the much more modest aim of exhibition-analysis, which is to seek a description of an actually existing example of some concept of sport internal to a normative position. My example is that of Olympic-sport. I try to s...
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It is difficult to develop good arguments when the central terms of the discussion are unclear – as with the current confused state of sex and gender terminology. Sports organisations and sports researchers often talk in gender terms when they mean sex; or use the sex and gender vocabularies interchangeably. We propose the use of terminology that d...
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This paper offers a discussion of the rationale for the creation of sports categorization criteria based on sporting genealogy and the gendered body, as proposed by Torres et al. in their article ‘Beyond Physiology: Embodied Experience, Embodied Advantage, and the Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport’. The strength of their ‘pheno...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the basis of eligibility rules in sport by exhibiting the logic of categorisation, with its associated ethical problems. We shall be concerned mainly with pre-competition categories – age, sex, weight and dis/ability – because they are directly relevant to sport performance, and are relatively stable inequalities...
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Questions about the definition of winter sports (and what ‘winter’ means) are central to interpretations and understandings of Olympic Winter Games. The Olympic Charter gives the current International Olympic Committee (IOC) definition: ‘only those sports which are practised on snow or ice are considered as winter sports’. This is a very narrow and...
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Our aim is to support improved understanding of phenomenology, especially amongst those researching in education. In the first part of this chapter we seek to comprehend the complex spread of phenomenologies, but not by tracing the many trails of phenomenological inquiry (Cibangu & Hepworth, 2016), or somehow conflating or reconciling them. Rather...
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This paper provides an account of the values of sport in the idea of Olympism. It develops a concept of 'Olympic sports', as institutionalised rule-governed contests of human physical skill, and these six criteria form the basis of a normative account. The conceptual account provides both a definition of sport and a demarcation criterion, and it al...
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This chapter is the Introduction to Parry & Allison (eds) Experiential Learning and Outdoor Education.
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This book adds to the theoretical development of the emerging fields of experiential learning and outdoor education by examining the central concept, ‘experience’, and interrogating a central claim of experiential learning: whether, and if so how, a short-term singular experience can transform a participant’s life as a whole and in a permanent way....
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Background. Martial arts are safe educational activities. An integral aspect of martial arts is the development of the participants' moral approach to the self and to others. However, not all contemporary martial arts clubs take moral cultivation as important, which diminishes their potential. Problem and Aim. The paper presents various ways of cul...
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The conclusion of this paper will be that e-sports are not sports. I begin by offering a stipulation and a definition. I stipulate that what I have in mind, when thinking about the concept of sport, is ‘Olympic’ sport. And I define an Olympic Sport as an institutionalised, rule-governed contest of human physical skill. The justification for the sti...
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This study interrogates the ramifications for the integrity of sport of the McLaren Report (2016a McLaren, R., 2016a. The independent person report. Montreal: WADA, Available from: https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/20160718_ip_report_newfinal.pdf [Accessed 3 January 2017]. [Google Scholar]) into doping allegations concern...
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The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surrounding environment through consciousness, perception, knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking collection, leading scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy draw on research on topics as diverse as surfing, freediving, slacklining, parkour, bodybui...
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The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the sport philosophy literature published in 2015 and 2016
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Boxing has been featured in the Competitive Program of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) since the event was inaugurated in Singapore in 2010. This paper examines whether boxing is a suitable sport to advance the professed goals of the YOG. It concludes that it is not, and that it should be removed from the YOG's Competitive Program. One line of argume...
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The Kladruby Games, the Paralympics, and the Pre-history of Disability Sport Roman Reismüller and Jim Parry Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic ABSTRACT The place of Dr Ludwig Guttmann in the founding history of the Paralympic Games is universally acknowledged. Briefly stated, Guttmann is credited...
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The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the sport philosophy literature published in 2015 and 2016 in both English and Slavonic. Since the initial undertaking of this effort in 2005-2006 – the first year the Slavonic publications were included – the available content has grown steadily (see Hopsicker and Jirásek, 2006 and 2008, Hop...
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This article reconsiders the presence and value of danger in outdoor and adventurous activities and sports in safety-conscious societies, especially in relation to the education of children and youth. Based on an original analysis of the relation between the concepts of ‘risk’ and ‘danger’, we offer an account of the relation between challenge, adv...
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Research question: The paper is based on the contention that ‘integrity’ is a significantly under-theorised and under-conceptualised value within sports particularly in its use by a range of organisations fighting corruption in sport, which constitute what can be termed the ‘sports integrity industry’. The ‘sports integrity industry’ reveals: diffe...
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Whilst hermeneutics had been traditionally associated with the interpretation of texts, Martin Heidegger gave it a new meaning, associating it with the interpretation of the existence (the ‘being’) of Dasein. This paper will explain the Heideggerian understanding of hermeneutics, based on the early work of Heidegger (especially Being and Time and o...
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The gradual appearance and relative stabilisation of the names of different kinds of martial activities in different cultures and contexts has led to confusion and to an unhelpful and unjustifiable elision of meanings, which merges different modes of combat and other martial activities. To gain a clearer perspective on this area, we must enquire in...
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This paper presents the paradox of martial arts: martial arts are supposed to be safe educational activities, but they include combat that itself is usually understood as dangerous activity. The nature of combat within martial arts is explored, so that it is clear to what extent it has been changed, i.e. safetified and therefore made not efficient....
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So the Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez has confessed, apologised and given assurances as to future good behaviour, after his 2014 World Cup assault on the Italian defender Chiellini. There were three immediate excuses and mitigations offered, which we dismiss: that it was inconsequential; that it was no different from many other ‘assaults’; and th...
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This book, The Spirituality of Movement Activities, combines two large topics – spirituality and human movement - and the authors´ main aim is to investigate the relations between them. The editor’s main aim has been to display spirituality as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, and so the book contains not just philosophical, but also reli...
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This paper defends philosophical phenomenology against a hostile review in the previous issue of this journal. It tries to explain what philosophical phenomenology is, and the possibilities for its empirical application; whilst also showing that Eichberg’s method is idiosyncratic, problematic and not interested in philosophical phenomenology at all...
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This paper argues that sport is not about conflict but competition; not about violence but controlled aggression; neither is it amoral and value-free but is itself a moral enterprise. The paper provides an analysis of the internal values and the internal logic of sport, which combine to ‘make peace’ via their isomorphism with political liberalism,...
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This paper presents some of the background to the development of the Youth Olympic Games, the principles underlying them, and some of the practical challenges in implementing them. Regarding the sports programme, modifications from the Olympic Games programme are noted, and innovations examined in terms of underlying values, such as immaturity and...
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This essay seeks to recover, extend and critique the work of David Best on the concept of Rhythm in Movement, the title of a chapter in his influential book Philosophy and Human Movement. Best shows how movement theorists have been confused by the concept of rhythm, and so we investigate some of the theses advanced. We argue for the following concl...
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In the literature related to the study of sport, the idea of phenomenology appears with various meanings. The aim of this paper is to sketch the nature, methods and central concepts of phenomenology, and thereby to distinguish philosophical phenomenology from its empirical applications. We shall begin by providing an overview of what we think pheno...
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This paper looks at the development of the Youth Olympic Games, first held in Singapore in August 2010, from the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), first held in Brussels in 1991. With about 3500 athletes between 14 and 18 years of age from all 205 National Olympic Committees, a full Olympic sports programme, a Youth Olympic Village, and a Cul...
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First, two concepts of time and their role in sport are discussed – time as linear, measurable, homoge- neous and objective; and time as discussed in the philosophy of existence, namely in the work of Martin Heidegger, in which he introduces the concept of “original temporality”. Second, sports are classified into four different groups depending on...
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The present paper looks at the development of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), first held in Singapore in August 2010, from the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), first held in Brussels in 1991. With 3500 athletes between 14 and 18 years of age from all 205 National Olympic Committees, a full Olympic sports programme, a Youth Olympic village, an...
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At first glance, it may seem inappropriate to attempt to connect Zen and sports. To a lay person in the West , Zen Buddhism is often considered a mystical religion that has nothing to do with the development of the human body and movement. On the other hand, to a Zen practitioner, it would seem unsuitable to associate Zen with sport and its promoti...
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When we think of performance enhancement in sport, our minds turn automatically to the issue of illicit performance enhancement – for example, by means of doping – and of course we shall give full consideration to such matters. However, we should never lose sight of the fact that the primary purpose of the coach is to help the athlete to improve an...
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It is clear that de Coubertin’s ‘devout contemplation’ of the idea of a ‘religion of athletics’ (the ‘religio athletae’) was central to his project to revive the Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century. The last chapter examined the ethical core of sport as exhibited by its rule structures and by the notion of ethos. This chapter will explore...
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This chapter examines the notion of 'ethos' and its role in explaining the nature of sport and the educational potential of sport.
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This paper examines the idea of the sports record and its relation to our ideas of excellence, achievement and progress. It begins by recovering and reviewing the work of Richard Mandell, whose definition of the record emphasizes three central ideas: statistic, athletic and recognition. It then considers the work of Henning Eichberg, Allen Guttmann...
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As ‘contractors to contest’, athletes must accept certain constraints, such as that against doping, in order to count as acceptable opponents. This essay is an attempt to explore the issue of doping in sport via applied ethics, showing how complicated and messy individual cases can be, and how our judgements about them are coloured by a range of mo...

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Hi Brian - enjoyed your skate ecology paper. This project: no M-Ponty?? Or is he included in 'contemp'??

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