Rate My Professor Kevin Krein

Krein's primary philosophical work lies in the philosophy of sport and philosophy of mind, with a focus on nature sports involving human-nature interactions, including skiing, climbing, and surfing. His monograph, Philosophy and Nature Sports (Routledge, 2019), examines these themes. Notable publications include "Nature Sports" (Journal of Philosophy of Sport, 2014), "Reflections on Competition and Nature Sports" (Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2015), "High-level Enactive and Embodied Cognition in Expert Sport Performance" with Jesus Ilundáin-Agurruza (Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2017), "COVID-19, Risk, and Nature Sports: Pandemic Dilemmas" (in Philosophy, Sport, and the Pandemic, Routledge, 2022), and "Excellence without mental representation: High performance in risk sports and Japanese swordsmanship" with Ilundáin-Agurruza and Karl Erickson (in Handbook on Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology, MIT Press, 2019). He has presented extensively at International Association for the Philosophy of Sport meetings, such as "The Glide Experience: A Phenomenological Account" (2022), "Aesthetic Experience in Nature Sports" (2019), and keynote "Nature Sport and Wilderness Experience" (2011).