Thursday, October 21, 3:00 pm

Gamesmanship and cheating has always been part of sport, but are the pressures on players and coaches to succeed in modern high-stakes sport leading to more (and more serious) types of cheating?

Listen to the audio of this panel on iTunesU. Watch it here.

Is gamesmanship cheating? Does sports culture conflate cheating with succeeding? And is that a bad thing? Does cheating in sports lead to cheating/illegal behavior in other domains (e.g., business)?

Participants:

Greg Dale
Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke Athletics

Joe Heath
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Jan Boxill
Director, Parr Center for Ethics at UNC

Moderator:
Wayne Norman
Professor of Ethics in the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Part of the Institute’s What is Ethics? seminar on Elevating the Game: A Series on Sport. The series seeks to provide an informal setting for students, academics, and sports enthusiasts to talk about some of the most pressing and interesting issues in sport today.

For more information, contact kie@duke.edu.