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Dispositions by Stephen Mumford 9780199259823
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.17Stephen Mumford puts forward a new theory of dispositions, showing how central their role in metaphysics and philosophy of science is. Much of our understanding of the physical and psychological... -
A Philosopher Looks at Sport by Stephen Mumford
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.14Why is sport so important among participants and spectators when its goals seem so pointless? Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, and argues... -
Laws in Nature Stephen Mumford 9780415407823
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws. His book begins with the question of whether there are any genuinely law-like phenomena in nature. The discussion addresses questions currently... -
David Armstrong Stephen Mumford 9781844651009
Booksplease Price: $94.56David (D. M.) Armstrong is one of Australia's greatest philosophers. His chief philosophical achievement has been the development of a core metaphysical programme, embracing the topics of universals,... -
Iron Jack Stephen Mumford 9781804399866
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804399866Author Stephen MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher... -
Metaphysics and Science by Stephen Mumford 9780199674527
Booksplease Price: $187.01Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. In the opening chapter, a definition of the metaphysics of science... -
Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people... -
Causation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.03Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be... -
Getting Causes from Powers by Stephen Mumford 9780199695614
RRP: $181.35Booksplease Price: $118.33Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do... -
Getting Causes from Powers by Stephen Mumford 9780198709626
Booksplease Price: $86.97Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do... -
Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game Stephen Mumford 9781509535316
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.79Football is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it's so simple to play - but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Stephen Mumford shows, behind the straightforward rules of the game... -
Absence and Nothing: The Philosophy of What There is Not by Stephen Mumford 9780198831532
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $149.99Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there... -
Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game Stephen Mumford 9781509535323
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.24Football is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it's so simple to play - but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Stephen Mumford shows, behind the straightforward rules of the game... -
Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy by Stephen Mumford 9781474279482
Booksplease Price: $33.52I firmly believed there was a world outside of our own minds . . . But all around me were challenges. . . . How could we be so sure there were such things existing apart from us? Philosopher... -
Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy by Stephen Mumford 9781474279529
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $122.97I firmly believed there was a world outside of our own minds . . . But all around me were challenges. . . . How could we be so sure there were such things existing apart from us? Philosopher... -
Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham, UK) 9780415857994
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21Do we watch sport for pure dumb entertainment? While some people might do so, Stephen Mumford argues that it can be watched in other ways. Sport can be both a subject of high aesthetic values and a... -
Russell on Metaphysics: Selections from the Writings of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72Is the world of appearances the real world?Are there facts that exist independently of our minds?Are there vague objects?Russell on Metaphysics brings together for the first time a comprehensive... -
Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery by Rani Lill Anjum 9780198733669
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $169.71Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests. Without causation, there would be no scientific understanding, explanation, prediction, nor application in new... -
Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport Sheree Bekker 9781836390534
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford argue that the category of 'women's sport' is not the feminist win some would have you believe. Instead, the segregation of women in sport is just one of... -
Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation by Michele Paolini Paoletti 9780367372309
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in philosophy, including but not limited to: emergence,... -
Metaphysics and Truthmakers by Jean-Maurice Monnoyer 9783110326581
RRP: $305.18Booksplease Price: $208.53The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian... -
Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding Hugh Lacey 9780415349031
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $108.89Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists,... -
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography by Hans Maes 9780230368200
Booksplease Price: $176.59What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper... -
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography by Hans Maes 9781349349821
Booksplease Price: $176.59What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper... -
Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy Ruth Groff 9781138798519
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of... -
What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality Rani Lill Anjum 9780367590871
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. Plants tend to grow and thrive in sunlight and mild temperatures. We also know that... -
Powers: A Study in Metaphysics by George Molnar 9780199259786
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $199.56George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume's metaphysics. This alternative would have real... -
Powers: A Study in Metaphysics by George Molnar 9780199204175
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $81.61George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume's metaphysics. This alternative would have real... -
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation by Ludger Jansen 9780367723361
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of... -
David Lewis Daniel Nolan 9781844650033
Booksplease Price: $94.56David Lewis's work is of fundamental importance in many areas of philosophical inquiry and there are few areas of Anglo-American philosophy where his impact has not been felt. Lewis's philosophy also... -
Emergence: Towards A New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science by Mariusz Tabaczek 9780268104979
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $86.54Over the last several decades, the theories of emergence and downward causation have become arguably the most popular conceptual tools in scientific and philosophical attempts to explain the nature... -
The Price of Football: Understanding Football Club Finance by Mr Kieran Maguire
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.33The first edition of The Price of Football quickly established itself as the go-to guide to understanding football club finance for the serious fan. Kieran Maguire, one of the UK's top football...