Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
Description
In my dissertation, I develop a framework for analyzing ethics and integrity in medicine, sports and dance based on the philosophy of Michel Serres (1930-2019). This framework does not present sport as a closed entity, but as closely intertwined with other institutions, such as law, politics, media, and science. Serres was a rugby player himself in his youth and reflects on the referee from this experience in a publication of the French Referees' Association. In my presentation I will situate Serres's view of the referee and the sports field as a pre-judicial court and relate it to broader themes of education, violence, community, and law. I conclude that ethics and integrity are not peripheral phenomena that need to be fixed afterwards, but provide the initial conditions for the development of sport.