Faculty Detail

Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza

Professor, Department Chair

Education:

PhD in Philosophy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, MA in Philosophy and MS in Sociology of Sport from the same institution, BS in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh with honors.

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Publications:

PUBLICATIONS (Selected - see CV for full list)

Books

• Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance: Skillful Striving. 2016. London: Routledge. 

Edited version of a two-volume Special Issue monograph, Skillful Striving: Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performative Endeavors:(200,000 words/370 pp.). See section on Journal Articles and Book Chapters, Please. 

• Editor, with Michael W. Austin, Cycling—Philosophy for Everyone: A Philosophical Tour the Force. Wiley & Blackwell. 2010.275 pages. Also published in German. Die Philosophie des Radfahrens. Mairish Verlag. 2013.

2018 – Forthcoming (F) or Under Review (R)

• Chapter (F): Culture in mind – An enactivist account: Not cognitive penetration but cultural permeation. With Hutto, D., Gallagher, S., J., & Hipólito, I. In Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, models, application.sL. J. Kirmayer, S. Kitayama, C. M. Worthman, R. Lemelson, & C. A. Cummings (Eds.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Chapter (F): High Performance, Risk Sports, and Japanese Thought and Culture, [PI] with Krein, K. and Ericson, K. The MIT Press Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology. Cappuccio, M. Ed. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Article (F): With D. Hutto. Selfless Activity and Experience: Radicalizing Minimal Self-Awareness Special Issue: The Relational Self - Basic Forms Of Self-Awareness. TOPOI, an International Journal of Philosophy.
• Chapter (R):Dewey Goes the Distance: On Habit, Radical Enactivism, and Endurance Sports[PI] with Gallagher S., Hutto D, Beam, K. American Pragmatism and Endurance Sports. D. Hochstetler (Ed.). Lexington Books.
• Chapter (R): Self- and other-awareness in joint expert performance, with Gallagher, S. The Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise.  Pavese C. and Fridland E.  Routledge. (Eds.). London: Routledge.
• Article: (F): Encuentro EH y JP: Apuntes para una filosofía del deporte radical y global, El futuro de los juegos y deportes tradicionales en los márgenes de la globalización deportiva.Kazuyuki Taketani, (Ed.). University of Kobe Press.
•  Academic – Journal Articles & Book Chapters – Peer Reviewed
• 2018.“On The Compatibility Between Confucianism And modern Olympism,” with Leo Hsu, Journal of Chinese Philosophy.DOI: 10.1111/1540-6253.12241     
• 2017. “Muscular Imaginings—A Phenomenological and Enactive Model for Imagination.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. 2017. 11 (1): 92/108. 
• 2017. “A Different Way to Play: Holistic Sporting Experiences In Philosophy: Sport.Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks, edited by R. Scott Kretchmar. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan: 319–343.
• 2017. High-level Enactive and Embodied Cognition in Expert Sport Performance, with Kevin Krein, Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 11 (3): 370-384.
• 2016. “Taijiquan and the Body without Organs” with Tien-Deng Yu.  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport.2016. 43 (3): 424-439  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00948705.2016.1227263.
• 2016, “Sports and Disciplined Movement – Paths To Stimulating Strivings” Recerca: Revisa de Pensament I Anàlisi.18: 49-72. http://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca/article/view/1879
• 2015.From Unskilled Failure to Skillful Fluency: A phenomenological analysis of and Eastern solution to sport’s choking effect. Special issue on Choking in Sport. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.Cappuccio, M. (Ed.). 2015.DOI10.1007/s11097-014-9408-5. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-014-9408-514 (2). 397-421.
• 2015. “Eastern Philosophy” in Handbook for the Philosophy of Sport. [PI] with Hata Takayuki. Morgan, W. and McNamee, M. (Eds.) (London: Routledge). 98-114.

Monograph:Skillful Striving: Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performative Endeavors

2014. Part I. Essays 1-5. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. 8 (3): 221-342.

• Preface.221-222 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2014.981364
• Introduction—Skillful Striving: Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performative Endeavors. 223-229.                                                               http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2014.981363
• 1– Nothing New Under the Sun: Holism and the Pursuit of Excellence. 230-257. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2014.981358
• 2 – William James—Pragmatic Pioneer. 258-270.                                        http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2014.981359
• 3 – John Dewey—Experiential Maverick. 271-284.                                       http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2014.981360
• 4 – José Ortega y Gasset: Exuberant Steed. 285-314.                               http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2014.981361
• 5 – Zhuangzi—Playful wanderer. 315-342.                                                  2http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2014.981362

2014. Part II. Essays 6-10 +Appendix. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. 8 (4): 343-584.

• 6 – Waking Up From The Cognitivist Dream—The Computational View of the Mind and High Performance.343-373.                                                                                                      http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1026629
• 7 – Riding The Wind—Consummate Performance, Phenomenology, and Skillful Fluency. 374-419.                                                                                http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1026630  
• 8 – Fractured Action—Choking in Sport and its Lessons for Excellence. 420-453.     http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1026631
• 9 – Reflections on a Katana— The Japanese Pursuit of Performative Mastery. 454-502.                 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1026632
• 10 – Everything Mysterious Under the Moon—Social Practices and Situated Holism. 503-566. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1026633
• Epilogue. 567-http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1080/17511321.2015.1026634
• Appendix—Much Ado About Nothing. 573-584. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1026628#.Vw94FEsspuY

• 2014. Encyclopedia Article: “Bicycles” for Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: An International Resource, 2nd Edition. Editor in Chief: J. B. Holbrook.  Assoc. Editor: C. Mitcham. 207-209
• 2014. “An East-West Comparative Analysis of Mushin and Flow,” with K. Krein for a special volume Philosophy and the Martial Arts. Young; Priest (Eds.). Routledge.  2014. 139-164. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138016606/
• 2014 Jogos Tradicionais: na encruzilhada entre a globalização e a preservação - um estudo de caso sobre a "Corrida de Toros". Also in English as “Traditional Games: at the Crossroads between Globalization and Preservation— A Case Study of the Running of the Bulls.”  In (Org) Zimmermann, A.; Saura, S.C. Jogos Tradicionais. São Paulo: Ed. Laços. pp. 69-88. [Commissioned]
• 2014. “The Quest for Meaningful and Lifelong Learning” in Philosophy, Sport and Education: International Perspectives. M. Isidori, F.J. López Frías & A. Müller (Eds.) Roma: Sette Citá. 43-70.
• 2014,“The Philosophy of Sport in Relation to Japanese Philosophy and Pragmatism” [PI] with Fukasawa Koyo and Takemura Mizuho, in A Companion for the Philosophy of Sport. C. Torres, (Ed.) (London & New York: Bloomsbury Editions). 66-82.
• 2013. “El componente formativo en los procesos de tecnificación deportiva: Una pócima filosófica legal y moral para el rendimiento en el deporte y la vida” in Formacción, el rol del deporte en la formación del talento humano.” Claudia Roca (Ed.)(Quito, Ecuador: Ministry of Knowledge and Human Talent). 114-135.
• 2013. “Moving Wisdom: Explaining Cognition Through Movement,” in Fair Play: Journal of Sport Philosophy, Ethics and Law. 1 (1): 58-87. http://www.upf.edu/revistafairplay/actual/#.UXlldOBR_L8
• 2013. “Ortega y Gasset, José,” Entry for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Print and online editions. H. Lafollette (Ed.). Wiley & Blackwell. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee376/full  
• 2012. “A New Heart for Turkish Soccer: a MacIntyrean analysis of the beautiful game,” with Cem Kuleli. Special issue, Routledge journal Soccer & Society. 2012. 13 (5-6), 667-687. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2012.730769
  • Anthologized in 2014. Soccer in the Middle East.  Ed. A. Raab and I. Khalidi. London: Routledge. 49-68. https://www.routledge.com/Soccer-in-the-Middle-East/Raab-Khalidi/p/book/9780415612449
• 2011.“El Equipo Justo,” with C. Torres, Revista de Ciências Sociais.42 (1) Jun-Jul 2011. 27-49.
  • Anthologized: 2015. Pensando la Educación Física como Área de Conocimiento: Problematizaciones pedagógicas del sujeo y el cuerpo.Ed. Adrián Ferreira. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila. 
• 2011. “Weaving the Magic: Philosophy, Sports and Literature” Philosophy of Sport: International Perspectives. A. Hardman & C. Jones (Eds.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 50-71.
• 2009. “Érase una vez…las fabulosas tribulaciones filosóficas del deporte, la niñez, y la sabiduría.” In Niñez, deporte y actividad física: reflexiones filosóficas sobre una relación compleja. C. Torres (Ed.).  Miño y Dávila Editores. Buenos Aires. (November 2008 in Argentina, March 2009 in Spain.) 195-230.
• 2008. “Athletic Bodies and the Bodies of Athletes: A Critique of the Sporting Build.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, Fall 2008. Vol. 25.2. 15-22.
• 2008. “Between the Horns. Part II: an existentialist solution to the dilemma on the running of the bulls.” Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy. Volume 2. Issue 1.18-38.
• 2007. Between the Horns. Part I: a dilemma in the interpretation of the running of the bulls.” Sport, Ethics, and PhilosophyVolume 1. Issue 3. 325-345.
• 2007. “Kant Goes Skydiving: Understanding the Extreme by way of the Sublime,” in Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports.Ed. Mike McNamee. Routledge.149-167.
  • Anthologized: 2015. Philosophy of Sport: Critical Concepts in Sports Studies. Ed. By R, Scott Kretchmar & Peter Hopsicker. Vol. III. London: Routledge. 302-321.
  • Anthologized: 2010. The Ethics of Sports. Ed. by Mike McNamee.  London: Routledge. 467-48
• 2006. “Goles Trascendentales,” in ¿La pelota no dobla? Reflexiones filosóficas en torno al fútbol.  Cesar R. Torres and Daniel G. Campos (Eds.). Buenos Aires: Zorzal. 25-57.

Popular Imprints [to bring philosophy to the public sphere] - Peer Reviewed

• 2012. “Go tell the Spartans: Honor, Courage, and Excellence.” Chapter in The Olympics and Philosophy. H. Reid & M. Austin (Eds.) Kentucky University Press. 68-85.
• 2012. “On the Crest of the Wave: The Sublime, Tempestuous, Graceful, and Existential Facets of Sailing,” in Sailing—Philosophy for Everyone.Patrick Goold (Ed.). 109-121.
• 2010. “Embellishing the Ugly Side of Football,” Jesús M. Ilundáin-Agurruza and Cesar R. Torres, in Soccer & Philosophy. Ted Richards (Ed). Open Court. 185-196.
• 2010. “Life Cycles and the Stages of a Cycling Life,” inCycling—Philosophy for Everyone, Ilundáin & Austin (Eds.) Wiley & Blackwell. 253-265.
• 2010. “Taking a Shot” in Hunting—Philosophy for Everyone,N. Kowalski (Ed.), Wiley & Blackwell. 13-22

Book Reviews 

• 2016.Toward a Genealogy of Spectacle: Understanding contemporary spectacular experiences. Tuncel, Y. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2016.1197304
• 2014.Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport.H. Reid. 2014.  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 40 (1), 177-184.
• 2012.Climbing—Philosophy for Everyone: because it is there. Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy6 (1). 85-90. 
• 2011. Gol de Media Cancha: conversaciones para disfrutar del deporte plenament.Cesar R. Torres. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila Editores. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy  6 (3), 2012. 396-401. 
• 2011.Gol de Media Cancha: conversaciones para disfrutar del deporte plenamente. 2011. Cesar R. Torres. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila Editores. Dilemata. 209-215. [In Spanish; different content]
• 2009.Chinese Aesthetics and Literature: A reader, by Corinne H. Dale (Ed.) Chinese Studies. Vol. 27, No. 1. 339-344.
• 2003.Philosophy and Literature: An Introduction,by Ole Martin Skilleås for the American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter. Vol. 23, No. 1. 3-5.
• 2002.Philosophy of Literature: An Introduction,by Christopher New for the American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter. Vol. 21, No. 3. Winter issue. 6-7.
• 2001. A Stoppardian review of Chris Rojek’s Leisure and Culturein One Act in Aethlon: Journal of Sport Literature. Vol. 19, No. 1. Fall Issue. 191-193.

Academic Links

Academia.edu - Link to available publicaitons online  

https://linfield.academia.edu/JesusIlundainAgurruza

Research Gate Profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesus_Ilundain-Agurruza

Hobbies

Born and raised in Pamplona, Spain, he ran with the bulls for a number of foolish years. Today he is an avid cyclist, swimmer, and budding freediver with a passion for diving with sharks. He also enjoys sparring with his Regenyei steel longsword as I train in medieval/renaissance swordsmanship..

Aficiones

Natural de Pamplona, España, corrió en los encierros de toros durante unos cuantos años locos. Hoy día, es un ávido ciclista y nadador, además de apneísta en ciernes al qur le entusiasma bucear con tiburones. También disfruta mucho entrenando en esgrima medieval y renacentista, a la par que le encanta hacer ‘sparring’ con su espada de acero Regenyei.