David Best's Argument on Physical Education and Sport in Universities

The Argument Against Static Stretching Before Sport and Physical Activity

KEY POINTS JTreexercise static stretching has been used by coaches and athletes for decades in the hope of improving performance and preventing injuries. The scientific literature of the 1980s and 1990s suggested that preexercise static stretching was a good addition to athletes' warm-up before initiation of physical activity.''^ This article reviews the current literature and provides informat...

Sport and Physical Education as a Means of Aesthetic Education

Aesthetics, the study of the philosophy of beauty, is not commonly thought of as a factor in the sporting education. It can be surprising therefore to find that sport and physical education provide innumerable opportunities for increasing aesthetic awareness. An aesthetic education can be attempted through the medium of the senses visual, musical, verbal and physical. It is the "physical" aspec...

On an Argument of David Deutsch

We analyse an argument of Deutsch, which purports to show that the deterministic part of classical quantum theory together with deterministic axioms of classical decision theory, together imply that a rational decision maker behaves as if the probabilistic part of quantum theory (Born’s law) is true. We uncover two missing assumptions in the argument, and show that the argument also works for a...

Foreword of the Special Issue on Motivation in Physical Education, Sport and Physical Activity and Health

1 Faculty of Teaching Training, University of Extremadura (Spain). 2 Faculty of Juridical and Social Sciences, Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain). . Authors submitted their contribution to the article to the editorial board. Accepted for printing in the Journal of Human Kinetics vol. 59/2017 in November2017. Foreword of the Special Issue on Motivation in Physical Education, Sport and Physical A...

Physical Education in the Universities of the U.S.A.