Delighted to have been invited to Trieste Next, the science research festival, which took place in Triest Sept 27-29.
Chaired by Marco Cambiaghi, University of Verona, and in conversation with Matija Mato Škerbić, University of Zagreb, I gave a talk on ‘bionic and modified bionic and future of sport’. You can watch the recording of our talk (in English) here:
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 BPSA McNamee Essay Prize.
This year we received an exceptionally high number of strong submissions and we would like to express our deep gratitude to all the applicants for their interest and contribution to the philosophy and ethics of sport.
After careful consideration the jury, comprised by Prof. Alfred Archer (BPSA Chair), Prof. Silvia Camporesi (BPSA Deputy Chair), and Prof. Sandra Meeuwsen, has awarded the following prizes and commendations:
1st prize goes to Danielle Mercado for an essay titled “Navigating the Tension: Balancing Egalitarianism and Elitism in the Paralympic Movement”.
Danielle Mercado recently graduated with a Master’s degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity from the Erasmus Mundus programme hosted by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Danielle’s main area of interest is Paralympic Studies. Danielle has worked with a number of organisations, including Athletics Integrity Unit and the Special Olympics Philippines, to promote integrity and safeguarding in sport.
The 2nd prize on equal merit goes to Xiner Tao for an essay titled “Is the display of “unwillingness to fight” against sportsmanship”, and to Lucas Contador Dourado da Silva for an essay titled “Failure as a Renunciation of Enjoyment: an Interpretation of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Discourse”.
Xiner Tao (also known as Mia) is an alumna of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Philosophy of Sport at Tilburg University, Netherlands, where she focuses on the meanings and values of sport.
Lucas Contador Dourado da Silva is a PhD candidate at the Physical Education School (Faculdade de Educação Física – FEF)/Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil.
Commendations go to Ke (Aria) Gong for an essay titled “Integrity exists not only in the game: an analysis of tennis governing bodies’ handling of Alexander Zverev’s domestic abuse allegations, and to Tommaso Ropelato for an essay titled “Reimaging talent: how genetic enhancement could shape the future of sports”.
Ke (Aria) Gong is currently in the second year of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master of Arts in Sports Ethics and Integrity (MAiSI) program, pursuing her research interests in gender equity and safeguarding in sports.
Tommaso Ropelato is a PhD candidate in philosophical and religious studies at Università degli Studi di Torino. As one of the Horizon Europe Young Ambassadors 2022, Tommaso is also passionate about creating and disseminating scientific knowledge that can inform and inspire Responsible Innovation for a better future.
The winner and runner ups will present their work at the BPSA online seminar series.
Stay tuned on:
New paper out with Ludovica Lorusso in Sports Ethics and Philosophy “Uses and abuses of the concept of race in genomics of sport performance and sport-related traumatic brain injury”:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17511321.2024.2361916
Ludovica Lorusso is a philosopher of science who has written extensively about race in the past. Ludovica and I decided to work together to and combine Ludovica’s philosophy of science expertise and my ethics of sport expertise to tackle the issue of the race in sport genomics and concussion research.
There’s not much written about race in the philosophy and ethics of sport literature, and that’s a problem for a variety of reasons.
We encourage you to read our paper and welcome your comments and criticisms to take our research forward!
We would also like to express our gratitude to the participants of the joint conference European Association for Philosophy of Sport and British Philosophy of Sport Association which took place at KU Leuven in April 2023, and to the participants of the 2023/24 seminar series of the Research Center for Knowledge in Cognition of the University of Bologna for their invaluable feedback.
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Prof. Silvia Camporesi 
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