Philosophical Telescope: Should We use Big Data Statistics as Analytic Tools in Philosophy of Sport?

Abstract

If philosophy of sport is a representative of philosophy for sport studies as a whole, it should be a philosophical telescope of sport studies. Due to a wide range of the area of study, it is difficult to observe and grasp the whole of sport studies beyond the field of individual researchers. Here, the big data statistical method could be considered function as a tool capable of handling multiple data through quantitative metering of individual researcher. However, quantification is not the traditional method of philosophical research, it is necessary to examine again the meaning of big data statistics using a method of philosophy. This article therefore examines what philosophical thought was based on to analyze the big data statistical method, what it means philosophically. The real principle of philosophy is not the unconditional application of methods, but the consideration of methods. This article was not written to borrow the big data method which is used by other branches in sport studies, but to examine the big data methods from a philosophical point of view.