Journal Articles:

"Women, autonomy, and sport: different situations, different dangers".  (Forthcoming).  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Special issue on dangerous sport.

"Human Rights, Goods, and Preferences in Sport".  (Forthcoming).

"How not to use sport for virtue: moral standing, self-conceit, and principled exclusions."  Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy.  Special issue on Sport and Justice.  (2025).  https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2025.2512512

"On not being alone in lonely places: preferences, goods, and aesthetic-ethical conflict in nature sports."  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. Special issue on Nature Sport. (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2024.2310189 

“Fame, Narrative, and the (Im)Permanence of Memory”.  In The Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity, eds Alfred Archer, Catherine Robb, and Matthew Dennis, Bloomsbury Press. (2024).

“Bullshit as a Practical Strategy for Self-Deceptive Narrators”.  Philosophical Forum 53, 3: 195-206 (Fall 2022).  https://doi.org/10.1111/phil.12318

 “Altering the Narrative of Champions: Recognition, Excellence, Fairness, and Inclusion”.  Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy 14, 4: 496-510 (2020).  https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2020.1754281

“Bad Faith, Bad Behaviour, and Role Models”.  Journal of Applied Philosophy. (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12437

“Not Everything is a Contest: Sport, Nature Sport, and Friluftsliv”.  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 46, 3 (2019).  DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2019.1622126

“Intensity and the Sublime: Paying Attention to Self and Environment in Nature Sports” Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy.  13, 1 (2019): 94-106.  DOI:10.1080/17511321.2017.1388272

“Simulation, Seduction, and Bullshit: Cooperative and Destructive Misleading”. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. 44, 3 (2017): 300-314.  DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2017.1341325.

“Ludonarrative Dissonance and Dominant Narratives”. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 44, 1 (2017): 44-54.

“Different Kinds of Perfect: The Pursuit of Excellence in Nature Based Sports.” Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy, 6, 3 (2012): 353-368.

“Convention, Audience, and Narrative: Which Play is the Thing?” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 39, 2 (2011): 135-148.

“On Competing Against Oneself, or ‘I need to get a different voice in my head’”, Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy. Vol. 2, no. 3 (2008): 353-366.

“Self and Pretence: Playing with Identity”, Journal of Social Philosophy vol.39, no. 4 (2008): 564-582.

“Remote Sport: Risk and Self-Knowledge in Wilder Spaces”, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 35, no. 1 (2008): 1-16.

“Play, Performance, and the Docile Athlete”, Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy, vol. 1 no. 1 (2007): 47-57.

“Queer Revelations: Desire, Identity, and Self-Deceit,” Philosophical Forum vol. 36 no. 3 (2005): 221-243.

“Gamesmanship,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 31, no. 2 (2004): 212-225.

“Athletics, Embodiment, and the Appropriation of the Self,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 17 no. 2 (2003): 92-107.

“Kierkegaard and the Feminine Self,” Hypatia, vol. 9 no. 4 (1994): 131-157

Book Chapters:

“Feminism in the Philosophy of Sport”. In Mike McNamee and William J. Morgan (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport, 161-177.  Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.

“Sport, Risk, and Danger”. In Cesar R. Torres. The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport, 148-162. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

“Vicarious Pain and Genuine Pleasure: Some Reflections on Spectator Transformation of Meaning in Sport,” in Sporting Reflections: Some Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Heather Sheridan, Leslie A. Howe, and Keith Thompson, 32-44. Oxford: Meyer & Meyer Verlag (UK), 2007.

“Being and Playing: Sport and the Valorization of Gender,” Philosophy and Everyday Life: The Quest for Meaning, edited by Laura Duhan Kaplan, 108-126. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2001.

Co-Edited Books:

Sheridan, Heather, Howe, Leslie A., and Thompson, Keith, Editors. Sporting Reflections: Some Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford: Meyer & Meyer Verlag (UK), 2007.

Books:

On Habermas. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Press, 2000.

On Goldman. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Press, 2000.

Recently Taught Courses:

PHIL 120 Knowledge, Mind, and Existence

PHIL 206 Early Modern Philosophy

PHIL 215 19th Century Philosophy: From Romanticism to Revolution

PHIL 218 Existentialism

PHIL 292 Metaphysics: Reality, Existence, and Change

PHIL 295 Philosophy of Bodies and Embodiment

PHIL 306 Topics in Early Modern Philosophy

PHIL 312 Great Philosophers I: Historical Figures

Advanced seminar topics have included:

Pretence, Deception, and Sincerity 

Desire and Volition in Early Modern Philosophy

Kierkegaard

Self, Desire, and Self-deception

Theories of the Emotions

Foucault and Habermas on Identity and Power

Hume

Bullshit Deception Desire Embodiment Identity Kierkegaard Narrative Play Pretence Self-Deception Selfhood Sport

My general research interests range over a number of areas. I am always interested in Kierkegaard but most of my work is either in the philosophy of sport or about selfhood, identity, self-deception, and desire. The importance of embodiment to self and self-explanation, as well as play, pretence, and striving, connect these two areas.  I am interested in how narrative, whether self-directed or in the form of a broader social discourse, both contributes to and distorts our understanding of who we are and the nature of our interaction as embodied subjects.  I have a strong interest in questions about how we respond to the natural environment, including nature sport and friluftsliv, and some issues in environmental aesthetics.  I am currently working on seduction, pretence, and the phenomena and moral categories that surround them, especially bullshit, deception and misleading, irony, and hypocrisy.

PhD: Philosophy, University of Toronto (1989)

MA: Philosophy, Dalhousie University (1980)

BA (Honours): Philosophy, McGill University (1979)