Stephen Mumford
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Stephen Mumford's Degrees
- PhD Philosophy University of Nottingham
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Dean Mumford is a British philosopher, who is currently Head of Department and Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. Mumford is best known for his work in metaphysics on dispositions and laws, but has also made contributions in the philosophy of sport.
Stephen Mumford's Published Works
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Published Works
- Getting Causes from Powers (2011) (446)
- Laws in nature (2004) (288)
- Powers: A Study in Metaphysics (2003) (221)
- The Ungrounded Argument (2006) (94)
- Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion (2011) (64)
- Ellis and Lierse on dispositional essentialism (1995) (55)
- Causation and evidence-based practice: an ontological review. (2012) (54)
- At the borders of medical reasoning: aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms (2013) (46)
- Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery (2018) (44)
- Causation: A Very Short Introduction (2013) (40)
- PASSING POWERS AROUND (2009) (37)
- III—Negative Truth and Falsehood (2007) (36)
- Effects of context (2011) (35)
- Dispositions and Ethics (2012) (33)
- The true and the false (2005) (32)
- A powerful theory of causation (2010) (28)
- What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality (2018) (27)
- Double Prevention and Powers (2009) (25)
- Laws and Lawlessness (2005) (25)
- Metaphysics and Science (2013) (25)
- Causal Powers and Capacities (2009) (25)
- Kinds, Essences, Powers (2005) (25)
- The Genius in Art and in Sport: A Contribution to the Investigation of Aesthetics of Sport (2010) (24)
- Emergence and Demergence (2017) (24)
- Spoils to the Vector: How to Model Causes if you are a Realist About Powers (2011) (19)
- Evidence based on what? (2015) (19)
- Athlete health protection: Why qualitative research matters. (2020) (19)
- Dispositions, supervenience and reduction (1994) (18)
- Philosophy of science and physiotherapy: An insight into practice (2008) (18)
- Mere Possibilities (2021) (17)
- Realism and the Conditional Analysis of Dispositions: Reply to Malzkorn (2001) (17)
- Miracles: metaphysics and modality (2001) (17)
- Moderate Partisanship as Oscillation (2012) (16)
- Intentionality and the Physical: a New Theory of Disposition Ascription (1999) (16)
- A new argument against compatibilism (2014) (16)
- Conditionals, functional essences and Martin on dispositions (1996) (16)
- Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction (2012) (14)
- Allegiance and Identity (2004) (13)
- A philosophical argument against evidence-based policy. (2017) (12)
- Legal Responsibility and Scalar Causation (2013) (12)
- CauseHealth: integrating philosophical perspectives into person-centered healthcare (2015) (11)
- POWERS AND PERSISTENCE (2009) (10)
- Normative and Natural Laws (2000) (10)
- Dispositions as Causes (2003) (8)
- Causal Insights from Failure: Post-marketing Risk Assessment of Drugs as a Way to Uncover Causal Mechanisms (2020) (8)
- The Tendential Theory of Sporting Prowess (2014) (8)
- Ways of Watching Sport (2013) (8)
- Function, structure, capacity (2006) (8)
- Laws of Nature Outlawed (2005) (8)
- Emotions and aesthetics: an inevitable trade-off? (2012) (7)
- The lawless world (2004) (7)
- Freedom and Control. On the modality of free will (2015) (7)
- The Power of Power (2013) (6)
- Powers, Non‐Consent and Freedom (2015) (6)
- Causes as powers (2013) (6)
- All the Power in the World (2007) (6)
- Analysis of scientific truth status in controlled rehabilitation trials. (2013) (5)
- Dispositionalism (2018) (5)
- Truth makers for judgement calls (2006) (5)
- Powers : A Study in Metaphysics by George Molnar (2003) (5)
- In Praise of Teamwork (2015) (5)
- A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truth (2007) (4)
- David Armstrong: Sensations and perceptions (2007) (4)
- What We Tend to Mean (2011) (4)
- The Irreducibility of Dispositionality (2014) (3)
- What is the metaphysics of science (2013) (3)
- Breaking it or Faking it? Some Critical Thoughts on the Voluntary Suspension of Play and Six Proposed Revisions (2010) (3)
- Powers and Potentiality (2018) (3)
- The aesthetics of sport and the arts: competing and complementary (2019) (3)
- David Armstrong: Metaphysics of mind (2007) (2)
- Where the Real Power Lies: a Reply to Bird (2021) (2)
- Book Symposium: Jason Holt, Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport (2023) (2)
- CONSENSUS ON VASECTOMY (1982) (2)
- Essences, kinds, and laws of nature (2002) (2)
- Contemporary Efficient Causation (2014) (2)
- DISPOSITIONS, BASES, OVERDETERMINATION AND IDENTITIES (1995) (2)
- The Conditional Analysis (2003) (2)
- Causation in evidence-based medicine: in reply to Strand and Parkkinen. (2014) (2)
- The Logic of Causation (2011) (2)
- The Battle of the Java Sea (1976) (2)
- Powers, Probability and Statistics (2020) (2)
- Crossing the threshold of credibility (1995) (1)
- MAX KISTLER Causation and Laws of Nature: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (2013) (1)
- Fundamentals of causality (2011) (1)
- A Puzzle about Causation (1993) (1)
- Introduction: George Molnar and Powers (2006) (1)
- Natural necessitation relations (2004) (1)
- At the borders of medical reasoning: aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms (2013) (1)
- Powers as causal truthmakers (2014) (1)
- What’s in a Correlation? (2018) (1)
- Threats and Promises (2003) (1)
- A Philosopher Looks at Sport (1)
- Absence and Nothing (2021) (1)
- Causation by Absence (2021) (1)
- No Power in Unger’s World (2010) (1)
- Conclusion of This Book (2011) (1)
- The nomological argument (2004) (1)
- Conditional Probability from an Ontological Point of View (2013) (1)
- Flak jacket for editors. (1993) (1)
- Negative Properties (2021) (1)
- Stephen Mumford. Dispositions (2005) (1)
- Explanation, Absences and Counterfactuals (2011) (0)
- Eliminativism and Reductionism (2003) (0)
- Digging Deeper to Find the Real Causes? (2018) (0)
- Modelling Causes as Vectors (2011) (0)
- Powers of Wholes and Parts (2016) (0)
- Dispositions in Mind and Matter (2003) (0)
- Risky Predictions (2018) (0)
- A Pornographic Way of Seeing (2013) (0)
- 5. Counterfactual dependence: do causes make a difference? (2013) (0)
- Same Cause, Same Effect (2018) (0)
- What Probabilistic Causation Should Be (2018) (0)
- 5. What is a cause (2012) (0)
- Editorial Board (2013) (0)
- With great power comes great responsibility - on causation and responsibility in Spider-man, and possibly Moore (2011) (0)
- What RCTs Do Not Show (2018) (0)
- Jennifer McKitrick: Dispositional Pluralism (2019) (0)
- Getting Involved (2018) (0)
- Objections and replies (2004) (0)
- 4. Necessity: do causes guarantee their effects? (2013) (0)
- A Biologically Disposed Theory of Causation (2011) (0)
- Do We Need Causation in Science? (2018) (0)
- David Armstrong: Naturalism (2007) (0)
- 7. Pluralism: is causation many different things? (2013) (0)
- Plural Methods, One Causation (2018) (0)
- Is the Business of Science to Construct Theories? (2018) (0)
- 1. The problem: what's the matter with causation? (2013) (0)
- A Functionalist Theory of Dispositions (2003) (0)
- David Armstrong: States of affairs (2007) (0)
- 10. What is metaphysics (2012) (0)
- Negation and Denial (2021) (0)
- 9. Dispositionalism: what tends to be? (2013) (0)
- 2. Regularity: causation without connection? (2013) (0)
- The Dispersed Famine of Today (1981) (0)
- Evidence of Causation Is Not Causation (2018) (0)
- Review: Understanding Philosophy of Science (2003) (0)
- Metaphysics and Sport (2015) (0)
- David Armstrong: Possibility (2007) (0)
- Conclusion: Law and metaphor (2004) (0)
- David Armstrong: Dispositions (2007) (0)
- 6. How does time pass (2012) (0)
- Reductionism, Holism and Emergence (2011) (0)
- The Modality of Causation (2018) (0)
- David Armstrong: Bibliography (2007) (0)
- David Armstrong: Necessity (2007) (0)
- 8. What is possible (2012) (0)
- 9. Is nothing something (2012) (0)
- Beyond ‘crude pragmatism’ in sports coaching: Insights from C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey: A commentary (2017) (0)
- Negative Truth (2021) (0)
- Learning from Causal Failure (2018) (0)
- Causes as Powers: BOOK SYMPOSIUM on Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum, Getting Causes from Powers (2013) (0)
- The Explanatory Power of Mechanisms (2018) (0)
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (2013) (0)
- 7. What is a person (2012) (0)
- Uncertainty, Certainty, and Beyond (2018) (0)
- Reply to Dr. Belton (1982) (0)
- In memoriam: David Malet Armstrong, 8 July 1926-13 May 2014 (2014) (0)
- Making a Difference (2018) (0)
- Uncovering Causal Powers (2018) (0)
- Formal Causes for Powers Theorists (2021) (0)
- Laws and Dispositions (2009) (0)
- The Aesthetics in Football (2016) (0)
- Are natural laws a natural kind (2004) (0)
- Causes as powers (2013) (0)
- Forum: what’s the point of sport?: Sport: profound or a complete waste of time? (2012) (0)
- Laws in science and philosophy (2004) (0)
- Soft Parmenideanism (2021) (0)
- 8. Primitivism: is causation the most basic thing? (2013) (0)
- Empty Reference (2021) (0)
- Making Nothing Happen (2018) (0)
- Metascience and Better Science (2018) (0)
- Book Review. Is Science Value Free? Values and Scientific Understanding Hugh Lacey (2001) (0)
- Does Science Need Laws of Nature? (2018) (0)
- One Effect, One Cause? (2018) (0)
- The Central Dilemma (2004) (0)
- David Armstrong: Universals (2007) (0)
- David Armstrong: Preface (2007) (0)
- David Armstrong: Truthmaking (2007) (0)
- David Armstrong: Laws of nature (2007) (0)
- Calculating Conditional Probability? (2018) (0)
- Are More Data Better? (2018) (0)
- Laws and Their Exceptions (2018) (0)
- Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game (2019) (0)
- 3. Are wholes just sums of parts (2012) (0)
- Perception of Absence (2021) (0)
- 6. Physicalism: is it all transference? (2013) (0)
- Physics and metaphysics (2003) (0)
- Conclusion: New Norms of Science (2018) (0)
- What is an introduction (2012) (0)
- 3. Time and space: do causes occur before their effects? (2013) (0)
- Regularities and best systems (2004) (0)
- David Armstrong: Abbreviations (2007) (0)
- Getting Real about the Ideals of Science (2018) (0)
- Have Your Cause and Beat It (2018) (0)
- Critical Discussion of David Armstrong, Truth and Truthmakers (2005) (0)
- Nonentities (2021) (0)
- Title: Causation in Evidence-based Medicine: Reply to Strand and Parkkinen Authors (2017) (0)
- It All Started with a Big Bang (2018) (0)
- David Armstrong: Knowledge and belief (2007) (0)
- 1. What is a table (2012) (0)
- 4. What is a change (2012) (0)
- Armstrong on Dispositions and Laws of Nature (2016) (0)
- From Regularities to Tendencies (2018) (0)
- 10. Finding causes: where are they? (2013) (0)
- Negative Belief (2021) (0)
- Crossing the threshold of credibility. (1995) (0)
- 2. What is a circle (2012) (0)
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