Sport and Species

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the complex intersection between sports, animal welfare, and ethical considerations. The chapters in this thought-provoking collection challenge conventional wisdom about animal participation in sporting activities.

List of contents

Introduction: Sport and Species 1. Ethical Justifications for the Use of Animals in Competitive Sport 2. Hunting, the Duty to Aid, and Wild Animal Ethics 3. A 'Game' Bird? On Why Hunting is Not a Game and Thus Not a Sport 4. Self-affirmation in Sled Dogs? Affordances, Perceptual Agency, and Extreme Sport 5. Horses as Players in Equine Sports 6. Dogs and Tigers and Fish, Oh My! Sporting captivity

About the author

S.P. Morris is a Clinical Professor of Sport Leadership & Management at Miami University in Oxford, USA. His teaching and scholarship focuses on ethics, generally, and ethics in sports in particular. His scholarship focuses mostly on the use and abuse of animals in and for sport but he has written on broader philosophical topics as well.
Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. Her teaching and research focus on applied ethics within the realm of health and sport. Of late, she has been working on the morally problematic activity of "sport" hunting and animals' inherent vulnerability.

Product details

• Authors: S.p. Tymowski-Gionet Morris
• Assisted by: Morris S.P. (Editor), Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041133438
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4113343-8
• No. of pages: 82
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Sports & outdoor recreation, Ethics and moral philosophy, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, SPORTS & RECREATION / Animal Sports / General, Animals and society / Animal rights - issues and debates