Against deep conventionalism. Issue 3 (2nd September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moore, Eric
• Is Part Of: Journal of the philosophy of sport. Volume 45:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 228
• Page End: 240
• Publication Date: 2018-09-02
• Subjects: Conventionalism -- internalism -- interpretivism -- competition -- sport ethics; Sports -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 796.01
• DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2018.1497513
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0094-8705

Abstract

ABSTRACT: William Morgan presents two diametrically opposed normative conceptions of sport and athletic excellence from late nineteenth/early twentieth-century British and American athletes. He claims that this example shows that the normative theory of sport presented by broad internalism (interpretivism) is false or at least inadequate. As an alternative, he presents the concept of deep conventions, which, he claims, can successfully adjudicate such normative disputes. I argue that Morgan's counterexample is not nearly so decisive against broad internalism as it might seem and that his own solution, deep conventionalism (a) does no better in solving the dispute and (b) suffers from further issues of its own.