Robert L. Simon is Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College. He is author of numerous articles in social and political philosophy as well as "Fair" "Play "(1991) and "Neutrality and the Academic Ethic" (1994), and co-author of "The Individual and the Political Order," (third edition, 1998). He is currently working on issues in discourse ethics and on the ethics of competition in athletics, and is a past president of the International Association of the Philosophy of Sport.