Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

This book is a collection of papers examining philosophical perspectives of adventure sports and related concepts of risk, danger, death, elation, authenticity and wilderness, written by well-known academics with personal experience of these fascinating sports.

Mike J. McNamee

1. The Quest for Excitement and the Safe Society Gunnar Breivik 2. Legislators and Interpreters: an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of 'being a mountaineer' Paul Beedie 3. Philosophy Outdoors: First Person Physical John Michael Atherton 4. Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting' Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson 5. Reading water: risk, intuition, and insight Douglas Anderson 6. Nature and Risk in Adventure Sports Kevin Krein 7. Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places Alan P. Dougherty 8. Outline of a Phenomenology of Snowboarding Sigmund Loland 9. The Performative Avant-Garde and Action Sports: Vedic Philosophy in a Postmodern World Robert E. Rinehart 10. Extreme sports and the ontology of experience Ivo Jirásek 11. Kant Goes Skydiving: Understanding the Extreme by way of the Sublime Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza 12. Can BASE jumping be morally defended? Gunnar Breivik 13. Walking the Edge Verner Møller