Books
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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
Metaphysics
- Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
- A Book About Nothing (in preparation).
- ‘5 Questions’, in Metaphysics: 5 Questions, A. Steglich-Peterson (ed.), Copenhagen: Automatic Press/VIP: 53-61.
- 'Metaphysics of Science' [conference report], The Reasoner, 10.3 (2009): 9.
- ‘Metaphysics’, in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, S. Psillos and M. Curd (eds), London; Routledge, 2008: 26-35.
- David Armstrong, Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007, x + 206 pp, ISBN 978-1-84465-100-9.
- Russell on Metaphysics, edited with introductions by Stephen Mumford. London: Routledge, 2003, viii + 256 pp, ISBN 0415-277450.
- with Matthew Tugby, 'What is Metaphysics of Science?', in S. Mumford and M. Tugby (eds), Metaphysics and Science.
- with Matthew Tugby (eds) Metaphysics and Science
Dispositions
- 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
- 'The Power of Power', for Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, John Greco and Ruth Groff (eds), Routledge, forthcoming.
- 'Dispositions to Lawlessness', Times Higher Education, 1,942 (April 8th 2010): 36-9.
- 'No Power in Unger's World', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80 (2010): 476-83.
- ‘Dispositions’ [expanded version], in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009 online version.
- ‘Powers and Mereology’, in H. Burkhardt, J. Seibt and G. Imaguire, Handbook of Mereology, Philosophia Verlag, forthcoming.
- ‘Ascribing Dispositions’, in Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, G. Damschen, R. Schnepf and K. Stüber (eds), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2010: 168-85.
- ‘Powers and Persistence’, in Unity and Time in Metaphysics, L. Honnefelder, E. Runggaldier and B. Schick (eds), Berlin: Dr Gruyter, 2009; 223-36.
- ‘Filled in Space’, in Dispositions and Causal Powers, M. Kistler and B. Gnassounou (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007: 67-80 [English version of ‘L’Espace comblé’].
- ‘Function, Structure, Capacity: Vermaas on Function Ascription to Technical Artefacts and their Components’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (2006): 76-80.
- The Ungrounded Argument, Synthésè, 149 (2006): 471-89.
- ‘L’Espace comblé’ in Les dispositions en philosophie et en sciences, M. Kistler and B. Gnassounou (eds), Paris: CNRS editions, 2006: 53-66.
- ‘Dispositions’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006 online version.
- 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.
- ‘Realism and The Conditional Analysis of Dispositions: Reply to Malzkorn’, Philosophical Quarterly, 51 (2001): 375-8.
- ‘Intentionality and the Physical’, Philosophical Quarterly, 49 (1999): 215-25.
- 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.
- ‘Virtus Dormitiva’, The Philosopher, 84 (1996): 12-15.
- ‘Conditionals, Functional Essences and Martin on Dispositions’, Philosophical Quarterly, 46 (1996): 86-92.
- ‘Dispositions, Bases, Overdetermination and Identities’, Ratio n.s. 8 (1995): 42-62.
- 'Dispositions, Supervenience, and Reduction’, Philosophical Quarterly, 44 (1994): 419-38.
- ‘Dispositions; Cogito, 8 (1994): 141-6.
- ‘Dispositions, Concepts and Ontologies’, in Language and Related Matters. H. Wallis (ed.), University of Leeds, 1994: 43-5.
Causation
- with Rani Lill Anjum: Getting Causes from Powers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- 'Contemporary Themes: Aristotelian' in T. Schmaltz (ed.), Efficient Causation: Oxford Philosophical Concepts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘Spoils to the Vector: How to Model Causes if you are a Realist about Powers’ The Monist 94 (2011): 54-80
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'Causal Dispositionalism', in A. Bird (ed.) Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Lodnon: Routledge, 2012: 91-107.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘A Powerful Theory of Causation’, in A. Marmadoro (ed.) The Metaphysics of Powers, London: Routledge (2010): 143-59.
- ‘Causal Powers and Capacities’, in Oxford Handbook of Causation, H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock and P. Menzies (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009): 265-78.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘Double Prevention and Powers’, Journal of Critical Realism, 8 (2009): 277-93.
- ‘Passing Powers Around’, The Monist, 92 (2009): 94-111.
- ‘A Puzzle About Causation’, Philosophy Now, 7 (1993): 28-30.
Laws of Nature
- 'Les lois et leurs exceptions', Etudes de Philosophie, 9/10 (2011): 47-65.
- ‘Laws and Dispositions’, in Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, R. LePoidevin, P. Simons, A. McGonigal and R. Cameron (eds), London: Routledge, 2009: 471-9.
- ‘Author’s Reply’, Symposium on Laws in Nature with Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis and Stathis Psillos, Metascience, 15 (2005): 462-9.
- ‘Laws and Lawlessness’, Synthésè, 144 (2005): 397-413.
- Laws in Nature, London: Routledge, 2004, xvi + 230 pp, ISBN 0-415-31128-4.
- ‘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. [available only in French. No English version exists: it got lost in a computer crash!]
- ‘Normative and Natural Laws’, Philosophy, 75 (2000): 265-82.
- ‘Laws of Nature Outlawed’, Dialectica, 52 (1998): 83-101.
Modality
- 'Potentiality and Modality’ for Handbook of Potentiality, Kristina Engelhard and Michael Quante (eds), in preparation, Dordrecht: Springer.
- with Rani Lill Anjum: ‘Dispositional Modality’, in C. F. Gethmann (ed.) Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft: Deutsches Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2, Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 2011: 468-82.
- ‘Why do we Have Any Idea of Modality at All?', in preparation.
Properties
- ‘Properties, Cogito, 9 (1995): 48-54.
- ‘Powers, 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.
Truthmakers
- ‘Negative Truth and Falsehood’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 107 (2007): 45-71.
- ‘A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truth’, in Metaphysics and Truthmakers, J-M. Monnoyer (ed.), Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007: 313-29 (followed with a reply by Peter Simons).
- ‘The True and the False’ (Author Meets Critics with David Armstrong and Peter Simons) Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83 (2005): 263-9.
Kinds and Essences
- ‘Kinds, Essences, Powers’, in A. Drewery (ed.), Metaphysics in Science, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006: 47-62.[reprint of item below]
- ‘Kinds, Essences, Powers’, Ratio, n.s. 18 (2005): 420-36.
- ‘Essences Kinds, and Laws of Nature’: review essay on Brian Ellis’s Scientific Essentialism, Metascience, 11 (2002): 324-8.
- ‘Ellis and Lierse on Dispositional Essentialism’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73 (1995): 606-12.
Philosophy of Biology
- with Rani Lill Anjum and Thomas Bøhn: ‘It’s Not all in Your Genes: The Dispositional Nature of Causal Mechanisms in Biology’ (in preparation)
Philosophy of Language
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'What We Tend to Mean', Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 46 (2011): 20-33.
- 'La référence et le nouvel essentialisme', Etudes de Philosophie, 9/10 (2011): 28-46.
Philosophy of Pornography
- 'A Pornographic Way of Seeing', in H. Maes (ed) Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography, London, Palgrave (forthcoming).
Philosophy of Law
- with Rani Lill Anjum: 'With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility' (forthcoming).
Philosophy of Sport
- Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotions, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-37790-4.
- 'Emotion and the Aesthetics of Sport', Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (special issue on aesthetics of sport) (in preparation).
- ‘The Beautiful Game: the Aesthetics of Football’ for John Hughson, Joseph Maguire, Kevin Moore and Ramon Spaaij (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies (in preparation).
- 'Moderate Partisanship as Oscilation', Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (forthcoming)
- 'The Aesthetically Pleasing Game', Times Higher Education 2,006 (July 7th 2011): 40-43.
- 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.
- ‘Truthmakers for Judgement Calls’, European Journal of Sports Science, 6 (2006): 179-86.
- ‘Allegiance and Identity’, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 32 (2004): 184-95.
Philosophy of Medicine
- with Roger Kerry and Matthew Maddocks: ‘Philosophy of Science and Physiotherapy: an Insight into Practice’, Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 24 (2009): 397-407.
- with Roger Kerry, Anthony Arthur and Aurelien Madouasse: 'Scientific Truth and Physiotherapy Trials: an Empirical Study of Truth Status in Published Controlled Trial Findings' Journal of Evaluation of Clinical Practice (forthcoming).
Social Philosophy
- ‘Russell’s Defence of Idleness’, Russell: the Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives, n.s. 28 (2008): 5-19.
Philosophy of Religion
- ‘Miracles: Metaphysics and Modality’, Religious Studies, 37 (2001): 191-202.
Perception
- ‘Perception’, Cogito, 9 (1995): 268-73.
Reviews
- Max Kistler’s Causation and Laws of Nature, Review, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (forthcoming).
- Peter Unger’s All the Power in the World, Journal of Philosophy, 104 (2007): 424-31.
- Robert Koons’s Realism Regained, Philosophical Books, 44 (2003): 358-60.
- James Ladyman’s Understanding Philosophy of Science, Mind, 112 (2003): 353-5.
- The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Vol 11, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9 (2001): 284-6.
- Hugh Lacey’s Is Science Value Free?, Mind, 110 (2001): 495-7.
- Robert Klee’s Introduction to The Philosophy of Science, Mind, 110 (2001): 215-18.
- Alexander Bird’s Philosophy of Science, Mind, 109 (2000): 325-7.
- John Leslie’s The End of the World, Mind, 109 (2000): 155-8.
- Nancy Cartwright’s The Dappled World, Philosophy, 75 (1999): 613-16.
- Frank Jackson’s Mind, Matter and Conditionals, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 8 (1999): 259-61.
- Daniel Hausman’s Causal Asymmetries, Philosophical Books, 41 (1999): 48-51.
- D. M. Armstrong, C. B. Martin and U. T. Place’s Dispositions: a Debate, Philosophical Quarterly, 48 (1998): 548-50.
- Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz’s Substance: Its nature and Existence, Philosophical Books, 39 (1998): 52-3.
Football
- I have written two books on football and I am a regular contributor to Groundtastic magazine. For one season, I was programme editor for Whickham Football Club. I have no bibliography for my football writings but hope to assemble one soon.







