Books
Dispositions, Oxford University Press 1998 The Non-League Football Grounds of West Yorkshire, Newlands 2002
Oxford University Press 2011 |
Publications by year Publications by subject area
In Preparation
- A Book About Nothing
- 'Emotion and the Aesthetics of Sport', Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (special issue on aesthetics of sport)
- with Rani Lill Anjum and Thomas Bøhn: ‘It’s Not all in Your Genes: The Dispositional Nature of Causal Mechanisms in Biology’.
- ‘Why do we Have Any Idea of Modality at All?'
- with Matthew Tugby (eds) Metaphysics and Science
- with Matthew Tugby, 'What is Metaphysics of Science?', in S. Mumford and M. Tugby (eds), Metaphysics and Science.
- ‘The
Beautiful Game: the Aesthetics of Football’ for John Hughson, Joseph
Maguire, Kevin Moore and Ramon Spaaij (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies,
Forthcoming
- Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Fundamentals of Causality', in K. Boff, W. Rouse and P. Sanderson (eds), Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Understanding and Influencing the Causality of Change.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Effects of Context' in K. Boff, W. Rouse and P. Sanderson (eds), Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Understanding and Influencing the Causality of Change.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Powers and Potentiality’ in M. Quante and K. Engelhard (eds), Handbook of Potentiality, Dordrecht: Springer.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility' in M. Stepanians (ed.), Berlin: de Gruyter.
- 'The Power of Power', in John Greco and Ruth Groff (eds), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, London: Routledge.
- 'Contemporary Themes: Aristotelian' in T. Schmaltz (ed.), Efficient Causation: Oxford Philosophical Concepts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ‘Powers and Mereology’, in H. Burkhardt, J. Seibt and G. Imaguire, Handbook of Mereology, Philosophia Verlag.
- Max Kistler’s Causation and Laws of Nature, Review, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- 'A Pornographic Way of Seeing', in H. Maes (ed) Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography, London, Palgrave.
- 'Moderate Partisanship as Oscillation' in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
- with Roger Kerry, Anthony Arthur and Aurelien Madouasse: 'Scientific Truth and Physiotherapy Trials: an Empirical Study of Truth Status in Published Controlled Trial Findings' in Journal of Evaluation of Clinical Practice.
- with Rani Lill Anjum and Svein Anders Noer Lie: 'Dispositions and Ethics' in John Greco and Ruth Groff (eds), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, London: Routledge.
2012
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causal Dispositionalism' in A. Bird (ed.) Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Lodnon: Routledge: 91-107.
- 'Combination Acts' in Times Higher Education, 2,037 (February 16 2012): 31
2011
- with Rani Lill Anjum: Getting Causes from Powers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN
978-0-19-969561-4.
- Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotions, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-37790-4.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘Spoils to the Vector: How to Model Causes if you are a Realist about Powers’ The Monist 94: 54-80
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'What We Tend to Mean', Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 46: 20-33.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘Dispositional Modality’, in C. F. Gethmann (ed.) Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft: Deutsches Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2, Hamburg: Meiner Verlag: 468-82.
- 'The Aesthetically Pleasing Game', Times Higher Education, 2,006 (July 7th 2011): 40-43.
- 'La référence et le nouvel essentialisme', Etudes de Philosophie, 9/10: 28-46.
- 'Les lois et leurs exceptions', Etudes de Philosophie, 9/10: 47-65.
2010
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘A Powerful Theory of Causation’, in A. Marmadoro (ed.) The Metaphysics of Powers, London: Routledge: 143-59.
- 'Dispositions to Lawlessness'. Times Higher Education, 1,942 (April 8th 2010): 36-9.
- ‘'No Power in Unger's World', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80: 476-83.
- Ascribing Dispositions’, in Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, G. Damschen, R. Schnepf and K. Stüber (eds), Berlin: DeGruyter: 168-85.
- ‘Dispositions’ [expanded version], in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online version.
- ‘5 Questions’, in Metaphysics: 5 Questions, A. Steglich-Peterson (ed.), Copenhagen: Automatic Press/VIP: 53-61.
- with Teresa Oliveira Lacerda: ‘Genius in Art and Sport’, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 37: 182-93.
- ‘Breaking it or Faking it?’, Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 4: 254-68.
2009
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘Double Prevention and Powers’, Journal of Critical Realism, 8: 277-93.
- ‘Causal Powers and Capacities’, in Oxford Handbook of Causation, H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock and P. Menzies (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press: 265-78.
- 'Metaphysics of Science' [conference report], The Reasoner, 10(3): 9.
- with Roger Kerry and Matthew Maddocks: ‘Philosophy of Science and Physiotherapy: an Insight into Practice’, Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 24: 397-407.
- 'Powers and Persistence’, in Unity and Time in Metaphysics, L. Honnefelder, E. Runggaldier and B. Schick (eds), Berlin: Dr Gruyter; 223-36.
- ‘Passing Powers Around’, The Monist, 92: 94-111.
- ‘Laws and Dispositions’, in Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, R. LePoidevin, P. Simons, A. McGonigal and R. Cameron (eds), London: Routledge, 2009: 471-9.
2008
- ‘Russell’s Defence of Idleness’, Russell: the Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives, n.s. 28: 5-19.
- ‘Metaphysics’, in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, S. Psillos and M. Curd (eds), London; Routledge, 2008: 26-35.
- ‘Power, Dispositions, Properties: or A Causal realist Manifesto’, in Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science, R. Groff (ed.), London: Routledge, 2008: 139-51.
2007
- David Armstrong, Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007, x + 206 pp, ISBN 978-1-84465-100-9.
- ‘Negative Truth and Falsehood’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 107: 45-71.
- ‘A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truth’, in Metaphysics and Truthmakers, J-M. Monnoyer (ed.), Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag: 313-29 (followed with a reply by Peter Simons).
- ‘Filled in Space’, in Dispositions and Causal Powers, M. Kistler and B. Gnassounou (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate: 67-80 [English version of ‘L’Espace comblé’].
- Peter Unger’s All the Power in the World, Journal of Philosophy, 104: 424-31.
2006
- ‘Truthmakers for Judgement Calls’, European Journal of Sports Science, 6: 179-86.
- ‘Function, Structure, Capacity: Vermaas on Function Ascription to Technical Artefacts and their Components’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 37: 76-80.
- ‘The Ungrounded Argument, Synthésè, 149: 471-89.
- ‘L’Espace comblé’ in Les dispositions en philosophie et en sciences, M. Kistler and B. Gnassounou (eds), Paris: CNRS editions: 53-66.
- ‘Dispositions’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online version.
- ‘Kinds, Essences, Powers’, in A. Drewery (ed.), Metaphysics in Science, Oxford: Blackwell: 47-62.
2005
- ‘Author’s Reply’, Symposium on Laws in Nature with Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis and Stathis Psillos, Metascience, 15: 462-9.
- ‘Kinds, Essences, Power’, Ratio, n.s. 18: 420-36.
- ‘The True and the False’ (Author Meets Critics with David Armstrong and Peter Simons) Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83: 263-9.
- ‘Laws and Lawlessness’, Synthésè, 144: 397-413.
2004
- Laws in Nature, London: Routledge, 2004, xvi + 230 pp, ISBN 0-415-31128-4.
- ‘Allegiance and Identity’, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 32: 184-95.
- ‘L’état des lois’, in La Structure du Monde: Objets, Propriétés, Etats de Choses. Renouveau de la Métaphysique dans l'école Australienne de Philosophie, J-M. Monnoyer (ed.), n° Hors série de Recherches sur la Philosophie et le Langage, Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2004: 235-62.
2003
- Powers: a Study in Metaphysics, by George Molnar, edited with an introduction by Stephen Mumford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xiv + 235 pp, ISBN 0-19-925978-X.
- Russell on Metaphysics, edited with introductions by Stephen Mumford. London: Routledge, 2003, viii + 256 pp, ISBN 0415-277450.
- Robert Koons’s Realism Regained, Philosophical Books, 44: 358-60.
- James Ladyman’s Understanding Philosophy of Science, Mind, 112: 353-5.
2002
- ‘Essences Kinds, and Laws of Nature’: review essay on Brian Ellis’s Scientific Essentialism, Metascience, 11: 324-8.
2001
- ‘Miracles: Metaphysics and Modality’, Religious Studies, 37: 191-202.
- ‘Realism and The Conditional Analysis of Dispositions: Reply to Malzkorn’, Philosophical Quarterly, 51: 375-8.
- The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Vol 11, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9: 284-6.
- Hugh Lacey’s Is Science Value Free?, Mind, 110: 495-7.
- Robert Klee’s Introduction to The Philosophy of Science, Mind, 110: 215-18.
2000
- ‘Normative and Natural Laws’, Philosophy, 75: 265-82.
1999
- ‘Intentionality and the Physical’, Philosophical Quarterly, 49: 215-25.
- Nancy Cartwright’s The Dappled World, Philosophy, 75: 613-16.
- Frank Jackson’s Mind, Matter and Conditionals, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 8: 259-61.
- Alexander Bird’s Philosophy of Science, Mind, 109: 325-7.
- John Leslie’s The End of the World, Mind, 109: 155-8.
- Daniel Hausman’s Causal Asymmetries, Philosophical Books, 41; 48-51.
1998
- Dispositions, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, xii + 249 pp, ISBN 0-19-823611-5. Paperback edition with a new Preface, 2003, ISBN 0-19-925982-8.
- ‘Laws of Nature Outlawed’, Dialectica, 52: 83-101.
- D. M. Armstrong, C. B. Martin and U. T. Place’s Dispositions: a Debate, Philosophical Quarterly, 48: 548-50.
- Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz’s Substance: Its nature and Existence, Philosophical Books, 39: 52-3.
1996
- ‘Virtus Dormitiva’, The Philosopher, 84: 12-15.
- ‘Conditionals, Functional Essences and Martin on Dispositions’, Philosophical Quarterly, 46: 86-92.
1995
- ‘Ellis and Lierse on Dispositional Essentialism’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73: 606-12.
- ‘Dispositions, Bases, Overdetermination and Identities’, Ratio n.s. 8: 42-62.
- ‘Perception’, Cogito, 9: 268-73.
- ‘Properties, Cogito, 9: 48-54.
1994
- ‘Dispositions, Supervenience, and Reduction’, Philosophical Quarterly, 44: 419-38.
- ‘Dispositions; Cogito, 8: 141-6.
- ‘Dispositions, Concepts and Ontologies’, in Language and Related Matters. H. Wallis (ed.), University of Leeds: 43-5.
1993
- ‘A Puzzle About Causation’, Philosophy Now, 7: 28-30.







