b. 1965
Stephen Mumford is a British analytic metaphysician known for his work on dispositions, powers, and causation. He has argued for a dispositional ontology in which causal powers are fundamental features of reality, and has written extensively on laws of nature, truthmaking, and the metaphysics of absence.
Developed an influential dispositional theory of properties and causal powers
Co-authored 'Getting Causes from Powers' with Rani Lill Anjum
Authored 'Dispositions' (1998), a foundational text on dispositional realism
Advanced the anti-Humean view that laws of nature are grounded in powers
Served as Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Nottingham and Durham University