Outputs (29)

The aesthetics in football: The beautiful game? (2016)
Book Chapter
Mumford, S. (2016). The aesthetics in football: The beautiful game?. In J. Hughson, K. Moore, R. Spaaij, & J. Maguire (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Football Studies (236 - 244). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203066430

Why the beautiful game? Football is frequently called the beautiful game. It presents itself as the most aesthetic of all sports. But how much truth is there in the old cliché, the credit for which is claimed by formerBBC commentator Stuart Hall? In... Read More about The aesthetics in football: The beautiful game?.

Bertrand Russell and the problem of consciousness (2016)
Book Chapter
Goff, P. (2016). Bertrand Russell and the problem of consciousness. In J. Tartaglia, & S. Leach (Eds.), Consciousness and the Great Philosophers. Routledge

Causation (2016)
Book Chapter
Broadbent, A. (2016). Causation. In M. Freeman, & M. Zeegers (Eds.), Forensic Epidemiology: Principles and Practices (112-130). Elsevier

The phenomenal-bonding solution to the combination problem (2016)
Book Chapter
Goff, P. (2016). The phenomenal-bonding solution to the combination problem. In G. Brüntrop, & L. Jaskolla (Eds.), Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press

Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why (2016)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N. (2016). Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why. In H. Chao, & J. Reiss (Eds.), Philosophy of science in practice : Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning (11-24). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45532-7_2

How do we establish singular causal claims? It seems we do this all the time, from courtrooms to cloud chambers. Nevertheless, there is a strong lobby in the evidence-based medicine and policy movements that argues that we cannot make reliable causal... Read More about Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why.

The aging of people and of things. (2016)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2016). The aging of people and of things. In G. Scarre (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging (87-100). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39356-2_6

This chapter explores some of the similarities and differences between the ageing of people and of other things, in particular the artefacts that we create to serve our ends. When we describe people as ‘ageing’, we usually mean that they have arrived... Read More about The aging of people and of things..

Is it possible to be better off dead? (2016)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2017). Is it possible to be better off dead?. In J. K. Davis (Ed.), Ethics at the end of life (11-28). Routledge

Although the coherence of supposing that a person could ever be better off dead has sometimes been questioned on metaphysical grounds, I argue in favour of the common intuition that in some circumstances death could be better for a person than contin... Read More about Is it possible to be better off dead?.

A Universal and Absolute Spiritualism: Maine de Biran’s Leibniz. (2016)
Book Chapter
Dunham, J. (2016). A Universal and Absolute Spiritualism: Maine de Biran’s Leibniz. In D. Meacham, & J. Spadola (Eds.), The Relationship between the Physical and Moral in Man: The Philosophy of Maine de Biran (157-197). Bloomsbury

Why Kirchhoff's Approximation Works (2016)
Book Chapter
Vickers, P. (2016). Why Kirchhoff's Approximation Works. In K. Hentschel, & N. Y. Zhu (Eds.), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff's Treatise “On the Theory of Light Rays” (1882). World Scientific Publishing

Anscombe (2016)
Book Chapter
Wiseman, R. (2016). Anscombe. In S. Leach, & J. Tartaglia (Eds.), Consciousness and the great philosophers : what would they have said about the mind-body problem? (253-260). Routledge