New paper with Ludovica Lorusso “Uses and abuses of the concept of race in the genomics of sport performance and sport-related traumatic brain injury”

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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2024 McNamee Student Essay Prize in the Philosophy and Ethics of Sport

The British Philosophy of Sport Association (BPSA) invites submissions to the 2024 McNamee Student Essay Prize in the Philosophy and Ethics of Sport. The Prize is named in honour of Prof. Mike McNamee (KU Leuven and Swansea University), founder of the BPSA.

Eligibility 

Candidates must be enrolled in a university undergraduate or graduate level course at the time of submission. There is no geographical restriction on eligibility.  

Submissions must be single-authored and the candidate’s own work, and they must address an issue in the Philosophy or Ethics of Sport.

IMPORTANTthe essay must be a new essay. Candidates are not allowed to submit essays previously submitted as coursework (turnitin system will check this is the case).

Criteria 

Essays may address any topic in the Philosophy or Ethics of Sport.  

In assessing submitted papers, the jury will place a strong emphasis on the following considerations: 

  • Originality of the essay topic and its treatment; 
  • Analytical rigour of the essay’s argument; 
  • Critical engagement with relevant philosophical literature

The jury reserves the right not to award a prize if submissions fail to achieve an appropriate standard. Candidates will not usually receive feedback on their submission. 

To Enter 

Submissions should be emailed in Word or PDF format to Dr Silvia Camporesi, Deputy Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association, with subject line ‘BPSA Essay Prize 2024’ by Monday July 15th, at midnight.

Candidates should submit two separate documents:  

  1. Cover sheet that includes the candidate’s information (i.e. name, email address, university, and essay title); and 
  2. Essay document that is anonymised so as not to reveal the identity of the candidate.  

Essay Format 

The word limit is 2500 words (excluding references).

Please use Harvard style of referencing. Please avoid footnotes/endnotes.

Prizes

Winner – £500 cash (by bank transfer)

Runner-up – £200 cash (by bank transfer)

Commendations x 3 – each of the three commended essays will receive £100 cash (by bank transfer)

The Winner and Runner-up will be invited to present their essays at a BPSA online work-in-progress seminar in the fall of 2024 and will be encouraged to submit their papers to the the Association’s journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsep20/current 
For any questions, get in touch with me, and have fun writing!

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Normative Kinds: Values and Classificatory Decisions in Biomedicine, July 1st and 2nd, 2024

The workshop takes place at Salone Ulisse dell’Accademia delle Scienze, Via Zamboni 31,40126, Bologna: https://maps.app.goo.gl/u398DJjTCiMWXnxP7 and is open to all.

Draft Programme:

DAY 1 Monday July 1st

9:30-10:00 Greetings by the project PIs and general introduction of speakers.

10:00-11:15 1st paper ZAMORA-BONILLADiseases as social problems, or blame it on the boogie”

Comfort break 15’

11:30-12:45 2nd paper VESTERINEN “Ameliorative Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry”

13:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00 -16:15 3rd paper MALINOWSKA “Revising the Notion of Whiteness in Research on Racism and Health Inequities in relation to the European East-West Health Gap”

Comfort break 15’

16:30-17:45 4th paper LUDWIG “Southern Ontologies: Re-orienting agendas in Social Ontology”

DAY 2 Tuesday July 2nd

9:30-10:45  5th paper REYDONThe twofold normativity in biological taxa”

Comfort break 15’
11:00 -12:15 6th Paper SERPICO + GUALA “Homeorhetic dynamic kinds”

12:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:45 7th paper CAMPORESI + SERPICO “Ontological perspectives on eating disorders”

Comfort break 15’

16:00-17:00 DISCUSSION LED BY BIANCHINI AND CAMPANER and Conclusions