The article highlights the research project of the Department for Humanitarian Expertise and Bioethics on the philosophy of sports. The philosophical ideas of Boris Yudin were chosen as philosophical prerequisites for problems and approaches to their solution. Central to them is the idea of a subject turned in its activity (cognitive or constructive) on itself. The authors of the project proposed to explore the phenomenon of sport in the light of the philosophical concept of human, addressing at the same time to new general philosophical concepts and “synthetic” directions of philosophical knowledge. The anthropological vector in considering the philosophical problems of sports offers new approaches to solving both old and new philosophical and anthropological problems.