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47Review of Skyrms & Eells (eds.), Probabilities & Conditionals (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1): 181-184. 1998.
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185Metaphysics: The Key ConceptsRoutledge. 2010._‘Informative, accessible, and fun to read— this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other resource like it.’– __Meghan Griffith, Davidson College, USA_ _'Marvellous! This book provides the very best place to start for students wanting to take the first step into understanding metaphysics.Undergraduates would do well to buy it and consult it regularly. The quality and clarity of the material …Read more
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174Hume. Metaphysics and Epistemology (edited book)mentis. 2010.The articles in this special issue of the yearbook Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy all concern, in one way or another, Hume’s epistemology and metaphysics. There are discussions of our knowledge of causal powers, the extent to which conceivability is a guide to modality, and testimony; there are also discussions of our ideas of space and time, the role in Hume’s thought of the psychological mechanism of ‘completing the union’, the role of impressions, and Hume’s argument against the …Read more
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17JOHN FOSTER The Divine Lawmaker (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (2): 453-457. 2009.
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38Counterfactual Dependence and Broken Barometers: A Response to Flichman’s ArgumentCritica 29 (86): 107-119. 1997.
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37Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views Aims to improve the reader’s ability to engage critically with philosop…Read more
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IntroductionIn Helen Beebee & Nigel Sabbarton-Leary (eds.), The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, Routledge. 2010.
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194Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2005.This volume will be the starting point for future discussion and research.
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215Free will sans metaphysics?: Mark Balaguer: Free will as an open scientific problem. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010, 202pp, $35.00Metascience 21 (1): 77-81. 2011.Free will sans metaphysics? Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9525-5 Authors Helen Beebee, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT UK Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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391Causation and necessary connectionIn Alan Bailey & Dan O'Brien (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Hume, Continuum. pp. 131. 2012.
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1Review of Douglas Ehring: Causation and persistence: a theory of causation (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1): 181-184. 1998.
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164Hume’s impact on causationThe Philosophers' Magazine 54 (54): 75-79. 2011.Many philosophers came to regard “causation” as an illegitimate pseudo-concept. This was a dominant view in analytic philosophy until quite late in the twentieth century. Russell famously quipped that “the law of causality” was “a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm”.
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616Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretationIn Huw Price & Richard Corry (eds.), Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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