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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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Aarhus, Lisbon, Dundee, Sasketchewan, University of Granada, Porto, Melbourne and the Australiasian Association of Philosophy, Valparaiso and Oslo.


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Grenoble, Köln, Lund, Hertfordshire, Cardiff, Essen, Tokyo, Kings College London, Oxford, Lausanne, Tromsø, Cambridge, Aarhus, Warsaw, Buffalo, Istanbul (Bogazici), Athens, Granada, Nottingham.


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Durham, Aarhus, Münster, Granada, Halifax Nova Scotia, St Francis Xavier College Antigonish, UNB Fredericton, Berlin, Ljubljana, Lund, Porto, Tromsø, Leeds, Stellenbosch.


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Trinity Dublin, The Aristotelian Society, Nottingham, Lund, Niagara Falls, Wittenberg, Cardiff, Lancaster, Tromsø, APA Chicago, Liverpool, Di Tella Buenos Aires, UBA Buenos Aires, Dublin, Moral Science club Cambridge.


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Bristol, Massey University, Otago, Sydney, Monash, Melbourne, La Trobe, Edinburgh, Pietermaritzburg.


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Aix-en-provence, Lampeter, Bilkent Ankara, NAMICONA at Koldingfjord, Oxford, Nottingham, Lund, Reading, Rennes, Institut Jean Nicod Paris.


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Glocuestershire, York, Athens, Sydney, RSSS ANU Canberra, Macquarrie, Oxford, Durham, Bristol, Lund, Birmingham Alabama.


2002

• ‘Essences Kinds, and Laws of Nature’: review essay on Brian Ellis’s Scientific Essentialism, Metascience, 11: 324-8.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Edinburgh, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered HPS Cambridge, Vercelli.


2000

• ‘Normative and Natural Laws’, Philosophy, 75: 265-82.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Edinburgh, North London.


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.

Conference and seminar talks delivered at Grenoble, Nottingham, LSE.


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.