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  • A Philosopher Looks at Sport
    Stephen Mumford
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    20,23 €

  • What Tends to Be
    Rani Lill Anjum / Stephen Mumford
    People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays. What should we make of a world where things tend to be one way but could be another? This book explores these questions and is the first full-length treatment of the philosophy of tendencies. ...
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    82,92 €

  • Glimpse of Light
    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 myst...
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    25,25 €

  • Watching Sport
    Stephen Mumford
    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 passive experience, we can all shape the way that we see sport. Delving into parallels with art and theatre, this book outlines the aesthetic qualities of sport from the incidental beauty of a well-executed football pass t...
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    104,75 €

  • David Armstrong
    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 work that Australian philosophy, and Austr...
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    77,46 €

  • Laws in Nature
    Stephen Mumford
    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. ...
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    104,37 €

  • Dispositions
    Stephen Mumford
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    99,57 €