Publications
Books
Causation in Science: and the Methods of Scientific Discovery
Oxford University Press 2018
Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy
Bloomsbury 2017
Causation: a Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press 2013
Oxford University Press 2013
Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press 2012
Oxford University Press 2011
Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion
Routledge 2011
David Armstrong Acumen 2007
Dispositions Oxford University Press 1998
The Spirit of Adventure 2007-08: A Season of Groundhopping
Blurb 2008
The Non-League Football Grounds of West Yorkshire
Newlands 2002
Publications by year
In Preparation
with Sheree Bekker: Public Health in a Complex World.
with Sheree Bekker: Subversive Metaphysics.
Forthcoming
Absence and Nothing: The Philosophy of What There is Not, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
A Philosopher Writes about Sport, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2020
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causation, Powers and Probability', in A. S. Meincke (ed.), Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, Synthese Library, Springer, pp. 115-30.
with Elena Rocca and Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causal Insights from Failure', in A. La Caze and B. Osimani (eds), Uncertainty in Pharmacology: Epistemology, Methods and Decisions (Boston Series for the History and Philosophy of Science), Springer.
2019
Football: the Philosophy Behind the Game, Polity Press.
2018
with Rani Lill Anjum: What Tends to Be: the Philosophy of Dispositional Modality, London: Routledge.
with Rani Lill Anjum: Causation in Science: On the Methods of Scientific Discovery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Dispositionalism: a Dynamic Theory of Causation' in D. Nicholson and J. Dupré, (eds.). Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Powers and Potentiality’ in K. Engelhard and M. Quante (eds), Handbook of Potentiality, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 261-78.
'The Aesthetics of Sport and the Arts: Competing and Complementary', Sport in Society, Special Issue: 1-11.
'Can Our Jobs Make us Happy?' (originally 'Human Beings and Human Doings'), IAI news online.
2017
Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury (ISBN 9781474279482 paperback and 9781474279529 hardback).
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Emergence and Demergence', in M. Paoletti and F. Orilia (eds), Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation, London: Routledge, pp. 92-109.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Mutual Manifestation and Martin's Two Triangles', in J. Jacobs (ed.), Putting Powers to Work: Causal Powers in Contemporary Metaphysics.
'Powers' in Hans Burkhardt, Joanna Seibt and Stamatios Gerogiorgakis (eds), Handbook of Mereology, Muenchen, Philosophia, pp. 442-4.
'Proper Behavior in the Stands: the Ethics of Sports Spectating', in R. S. Kretchmar (ed.) Philosophy of Sport, Macmillan Cengage, pp. 167-84.
'The Best Evidence Tends to Get the Facts Right', CauseHealth blog
2016
'Armstrong on Dispositions and Laws of Nature', in F. Calemi (ed.), Metaphysics and Scientific Realism, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 161-75.
with Sebastián Briceño: 'Relations All the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism', in A. Marmodoro and D. Yates (eds) The Metaphysics of Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 198-217.
'The Aesthetics of Football: the Beautiful Game?' in John Hughson, Kevin Moore, Ramon Spaaij and Joseph Maguire (eds), Routledge Handbook of Football Studies, London: Routledge, pp. 236-44.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'A Philosophical Argument Against Evidence-Based Policy', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, online view.
Interview in Emily Ryall, Philosophy of Sport: Key Questions, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 155-6.
'University Life During the Summer', Times Higher Education (August 11th 2016)
'Watching Sport is Far More than Just Pure, Dumb Entertainment', The Conversation.
'It's Me or The Pistol-Packers', Times Higher Education (March 3rd 2016)
2015
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Powers, Non-consent and Freedom', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 91: 136-52. Early online view.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Freedom and Control: the Modality of Free Will'. American Philosophical Quarterly, 52: 1-11.
with Rani Lill Anjum and Roger Kerry: 'Evidence Based on What?', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Online view
with Rani Lilll Anjum, Samantha Copeland and Elena Rocca, 'CauseHealth: Integrating Philosophical Perspectives into Person-Centered Healthcare', European Journal for Person-Centered Healthcare, 3: 427-30.
'In Praise of Teamwork', Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 42: 51-5.
'Metaphysics of Sport' in M. McNamee and W. Morgan (eds) Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sport, London: Routledge, pp. 274-84.
'Miracles and Ebola', The Critique.
''Freedom Compromised', The Philosophers' Magazine online
'Enre más permanecen las cosas...' (The More Things Stay the Same ...), El Mundo es Extraño.
2014
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'A New Argument Against Compatibilism', Analysis 74: 20-25.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Powers as Causal Truthmakers', Disputatio 4: 5-31.
with Rani Lill Anjum, 'The Tendential Theory of Sporting Prowess', Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 41: 399-412.
'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian Themes' in Tad Schmaltz (ed.), Efficient Causation: A History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 317-39.
with Thor Eirik Eriksen, Roger Kerry, Svein Anders Noer Lie and Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causal Knowledge in Evidence-Based Medicine: Reply to Strand and Parkkinen', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Early online view.
'Bread and Circuses'. The Critique.
'The Aesthetics of Sport', in C. Torres (ed.) The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 180-94.
with Roger Kerry and Rani Lill Anjum: 'Response to Miles and Mezzich "Causation as the Way Forward in Person Centered Medicine"', EuropeanJournal of Person Centred Healthcare, 2: 81-2.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'The Irreducibility of Dispositionality' in Rafael Hüntelmann and Johannes Hattler (eds) New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy, Heusenstamm: Editiones Scholasticae, pp. 105-28.
'In Memoriam: David Armstrong', The Philosophers' Magazine, 66: 9-10.
'May I Recommend ...', Times Higher Education (November 6th 2014).
2013
with Rani Lill Anjum: Causation: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 128 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-968443-4.
with Matthew Tugby (eds) Metaphysics and Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ix + 244 pp, containing, with Matthew Tugby, 'What is the Metaphysics of Science?', pp. 3-26. ISBN 978-0-19-967452-7.
'A Pornographic Way of Seeing', in H. Maes (ed) Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography, London, Palgrave, pp. 58-72.
Prefazione to Francesco Calemi's The Roots of Being, Roma: Armando Editore, pp. 9-13.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility' in B. Kahmen and M. Stepanians (ed.), Causation and Responsibility - Critical Essays, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 219-37.
with Thor Eirik Eriksen, Roger Kerry, Svein Anders Noer Lie and Rani Lill Anjum: 'At the Borders of Medical Reasoning: the Aetiological and Ontological Challenges of MUS', Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 8 (11).
with Roger Kerry, Anthony Arthur and Aurelien Madouasse: 'Analysis of Scientific Truth Status in Controlled Rehabilitation Trials' in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 19: 617-25 Online Early View.
'Ways of Watching Sport', Philosophy (supplement) 73: 3-15.
'Causes for Laws', Jurisprudence 4: 109-14.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causes as Powers' (reply to McKitrick and Marmodoro), Metascience, 22: 554-9
'Why Cheat?', The Philosophers' Magazine 61: 19-21.
'Hidden Powers', interview with Richard Marshall in 3AM Magazine.
Max Kistler’s Causation and Laws of Nature, Review, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64: 223-7.
2012
Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 113 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-965712-4..
'Emotions and Aesthetics: an Inevitable Trade-Off?', Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 39: 267-79.
'The Power of Power', in Ruth Groff and John Greco (eds), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, London: Routledge, pp. 9-24.
with Rani Lill Anjum and Svein Anders Noer Lie: 'Dispositions and Ethics' in Ruth Groff and John Greco (eds), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, London: Routledge, pp. 231-47.
with Roger Kerry, Thor Eirik Eriksen, Svein Anders Noer Lie and Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causation and Evidence-Based Practice: an Ontological Overview', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18 (5): 1006-12.
Interview of Anjum and Mumford with Maria Jose Garcia-Encinas, The Reasoner, 6 (10), Oct: 153-6.
'Peer Pressure', Times Higher Education, 2,067 (September 13th 2012): 31. (Norwegian translation: 'Fag og Feller', Forskerforum 9/2012: 38-9.)
with Isabel Chorão, João Lima and Teresa Lacerda: 'Technical Tactical Harmony as a Possibility to Redeem the Aesthetic Value of Tennis in the Future: a Study from the Perspective of the Tennis Expert', Revista Portuguesa de Ciências de Desporto, 12 (suppl): 57-60.
'Moderate Partisanship as Oscillation', Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 6: 369-75. Also in R. S. Kretchmar and P. Hopsicker (eds), Critical Concepts in Sports Studies: Philosophy of Sport, v. III, London: Routledge.
'Flow; the Optimum Performance of an Ability', Online at http://www.everything-flows.co.uk/'
Sport: Profound or a Complete Waste of Time?', The Philosophers' Magazine 3/2012: 72-6.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causal Dispositionalism' in A. Bird, B. Ellis and H. Sankey (eds) Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, London: Routledge, pp. 91-107.
'Combination Acts' in Times Higher Education, 2,037 (February 16th 2012): 31.
2011
with Rani Lill Anjum: Getting Causes from Powers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, xvi + 254 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-969561-4.
Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotions, London: Routledge, xi + 152 pp, ISBN 978-0-415-37790-4.
'Glory in Excelsior!', Times Higher Education, 2,030: 38-40.
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.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Fundamentals of Causality', Information Knowledge Systems Management 10: 75-84. Reprinted in W. Rouse, K. Boff and P. Sanderson (eds), Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Understanding and Influencing the Causality of Change, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2012.
with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Effects of Context', Information Knowledge Systems management 10: 101-110. Reprinted in W. Rouse, K. Boff and P. Sanderson (eds), Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Understanding and Influencing the Causality of Change, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2012.
2010
with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘A Powerful Theory of Causation’, in A. Marmadoro (ed.) The Metaphysics of Powers, London: Routledge, pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 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. Also forthcoming in R. Scott Kretchmar and Peter Hopsicker (eds) Philosophy of Sport: Critical Concepts in Sports Studies, London: Routledge. Also in R. S. Kretchmar and P. Hopsicker (eds), Critical Concepts in Sports Studies: Philosophy of Sport, v. II, London: Routledge.
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.
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.
1999
‘Intentionality and the Physical’, Philosophical Quarterly, 49: 215-25.
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.