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Powers and potentiality (2018)
Book Chapter
Mumford, S., & Anjum, R. (2018). Powers and potentiality. In K. Engelhard, & M. Quante (Eds.), Handbook of Potentiality (261 - 278). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1287-1_10

Analytic philosophers have in recent decades rediscovered powers as the basis for an all-encompassing metaphysics and philosophy of nature. What recommends the powers view is its explanatory utility, including a putative explanation of potentiality.... Read More about Powers and potentiality.

The aesthetics of sport and the arts: competing and complementary (2018)
Journal Article
Mumford, S. (2019). The aesthetics of sport and the arts: competing and complementary. Sport in Society, 5, 723-733. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1430478

Sport has a distinctive aesthetic that derives from its ontological basis in competition, indeterminism and emergence. The aim in sport is to compete, rather than the production of aesthetic value. An effective way to secure the latter, however, is p... Read More about The aesthetics of sport and the arts: competing and complementary.

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?.

Evidence based on what? (2015)
Journal Article
Anjum, R., Kerry, R., & Mumford, S. (2015). Evidence based on what?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(6), E11-E12

Freedom and Control: on the Modality of Free Will (2015)
Journal Article
Mumford, S., & Anjum, R. L. (2015). Freedom and Control: on the Modality of Free Will. American Philosophical Quarterly, 52(1), 1-11

Free will is a problem of modality, hampered by a commitment to modal dualism: the view that there is only necessity and pure contingency. If we have necessity, then things couldn't have been otherwise, against the Principle of Alternate Possibilitie... Read More about Freedom and Control: on the Modality of Free Will.

Powers, Non-consent and Freedom (2014)
Journal Article
Mumford, S., & Anjum, R. L. (2015). Powers, Non-consent and Freedom. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 91(1), 136-152. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12112

There are a number of dispositionalist solutions to the free will problem based on freedom consisting in the agent's exercise of a power. But if a subject a is free when they exercise their power P, there is an objection to be overcome from the possi... Read More about Powers, Non-consent and Freedom.