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  • Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Metaphysics 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 yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or religious. For others it is known through the metaphysical poets who talk of love and spirituality ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Causation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Causation 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 connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage. Any intervention we make in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Football

    The Philosophy Behind the Game

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    Football 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 there lurks a world of intriguing complexity.Mumford considers the intellectual basis upon which football rests, guiding readers through a number of issues at the heart of the game. How can a team be ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • David Armstrong

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    David (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, laws, modality and facts: a naturalistic metaphysics, consistent with a scientific view of the natural world. It is primarily through his owrk that Australian philosophy, and Australian metaphysics in ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Absence and Nothing

    The Philosophy of What There is Not

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    Nothing 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 are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and that we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we consider how much ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Laws in Nature

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Mumford 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 being debated by metaphysicians such as whether the laws of nature are necessary or contingent and whether a property can be identified independently of its causal role. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Watching Sport

    Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Do 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 valid source for our moral education. The philosophy of sport has tended to focus on participation, but this book instead examines the philosophical issues around watching sport. Far from being a ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Open Play

    The Case for Feminist Sport

    by Sheree Bekker, Stephen Mumford ...
    Sheree 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 more way in which women are told to expect less from society. Women had to fight to be included in sport in the first place, and are now only included under far less favourable terms than those enjoyed by men.There ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Philosopher Looks at Sport

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    Series series A Philosopher Looks At
    Why 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 that sports activities reflect diverse human experiences - including important values that we continue to contest. The author explores physicality, competition, how sport is best defined, ethics in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Causation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rani Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Causation 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 connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage. Any intervention we make in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Metaphysics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Mumford ...
    Narrated by Russ Williams ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 6 min

    Metaphysics 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 yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or religious. For others it is known through the metaphysical poets who talk of love and spirituality ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Glimpse of Light

    New Meditations on First Philosophy

    by Professor Stephen Mumford ...
    I 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 Benedict Chilwell faces a crisis of confidence and hopes to resolve it in a self-imposed exile, far away in the north of Norway. From his cabin, he begins his meditations, pondering the mysteries of philosophy ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD