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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: William J. Morgan, "Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory" (Temple UP, 2020)
Description: Today we are joined by William J. Morgan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, and the author of Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory (Temple University Press, 2020). In our conversation, we discussed three theories of sports ethics (formalism, internalism/interpretivism, and conventionalism.) We looked at how sports philosophers use historical controversies as test cases for their philosophical theories, but also applied those philosophical approaches to contemporary sports issues including the use of performance enhancing drugs and the payment of college athletes.Sport and Moral Conflict takes sport as a moral laboratory and Morgan wrote it as an ext...