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Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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Two Concepts of Emergence

07 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy O'Connor (Indiana) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series. Abstract: The correlated terms "emergence" a...

Processes and Powers

07 May 2014

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John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: This talk will explore the implications f...

Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods

07 May 2014

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Neil Williams (Buffalo University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract; The typical understanding o...

Causal Production as Interaction: a Causal Account of Persistence and Grounding

07 May 2014

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Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (Lund University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: In this talk I will ...

Doing Away With Dispositions: Towards a Law-Based Account of Modality in Science

18 Feb 2014

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Stephen French (Leeds) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series. Abstract: 'Recent defences of dispositionalism and power...

Quidditism and Modal Methodology

18 Feb 2014

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Alastair Wilson, Birmingham, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series Abstract: Jonathan Schaffer has recently defended t...

The Fundamentality of the Familiar

18 Feb 2014

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Nick Jones, University of Birmingham, gives a talk in which he appeal to an examination of the explanatory role of ordinary macroscopic objects to arg...

Aristotle's Dynamics in Physics VII 5: the Importance of Being Conditional

18 Feb 2014

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Henry Mendell (California State) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series Abstract: Historians in the twentieth century ar...

Aristotle on the Happiness of the City

18 Feb 2014

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Don Morison (Rice) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontology series. Abstract: 'The happiness of the city (the eudaimonia of the pol...

Pluralism and Determinism

18 Feb 2014

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Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series. Abstract: 'Pluralists about material objects believe t...

Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions

18 Feb 2014

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Mark Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series In Getting Causes from Powers, Steven Mum...

Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge?

18 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series. Abstract 'I will examine the conditions...

Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument

13 Feb 2014

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Nick Denyer (Cambridge) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: Stilpo engaged triumphantly in reparte...

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: How Stoic are They?

13 Feb 2014

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Christopher Gill (Exeter) gives a talk on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and asks How Stoic are They? Abstract: In this paper I address the longstanding...

Moral Development and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle

13 Feb 2014

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Steve Makin, (Sheffield) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: Aristotle emphasises the role of habit...

Freedom and Responsibility Revisited

13 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Sorabji gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontolgies podcast series

Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others' Minds

12 Feb 2014

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Stephen Butterfill gives a talk on philosophy and collective agency and other people's minds When friends walk together, they typically exercise colle...

Aristotle on Singular Thought

12 Feb 2014

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Mika Perala gives a talk on Aristotle's philosophy Aristotle states in the De Memoria et Reminiscentia that we have memories of individuals such as Ko...

Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses

12 Feb 2014

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Louise Fiona Richardson gives a talk on philosophy and perception It is beyond dispute that the senses interact. In this paper I will consider the way...

Common Sense and Metaperception

12 Feb 2014

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Jerome Dokic gives a talk on common sense and philosophy One of the functions of the common sense in Aristotle’s theory of perception is apparently ...

The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect

12 Feb 2014

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Howard Robinson gives a talk on philosophy and the role of the intellect Abstract: First, I will consider Jaworski’s interesting recent attempt to d...

Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles

12 Feb 2014

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Anna Marmodoro gives a talk on Aristotle and his philosophy Aristotle draws a distinction between qualities that are perceptible via a single sense on...

The Persistence of Animate Organisms

23 Aug 2013

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Rory Madden, Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London, gives a talk about animate organisms for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologi...

Freedom and Responsibility Revisited

23 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Richard Sorabji, Wolfson College Oxford, gives a talk on freedom and responsibility as part of the series 'Talks on Powers, Structures and R...

Causes, Powers and Structures in a Factored Process Ontology: Solutions and Lacunae

23 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Simons, Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, gives a talk as part of the series 'Metaphysics of Powers, Causation and Persons'. A p...

There are Mechanisms, and Then There are Mechanisms

23 Aug 2013

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Mechanisms are at centre-stage right now in philosophy of science, especially in discussions of causal explanation and causal inference. For instance ...

Cartesian Transubstantiation

23 Aug 2013

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John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, gives a talk on Cartesian Transubstantiation. According to the received view of...

Powers, Functions and Parts: the Stoics (and Others) on the Nature of the Passions

23 Aug 2013

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Professor Jim Hankinson, University of Texas at Austin, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies project.

Aristotelian v. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations

23 Aug 2013

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Jeff Brower, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, gives a talk explaining the key differences between Aristotelian and more contempor...

Structure and Quality

23 Aug 2013

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A talk from Galen Strawson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas. Structure considered just as such is an abstract, purely logico-mathematical...

Freedom and Indifference in Marcus Aurelius

23 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

John Sellars, Wolfson College, Oxford, gives a talk as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives".

Marcus on Becoming Whole

23 Aug 2013

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Michael Griffin, Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of British Columbia, gives a talk as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophi...

Religious Debate and Religious Competition in the Age of Marcus Aurelius

23 Aug 2013

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Mark Edwards, Christ Church College, Oxford, discusses religion in the age of Marcus Aurelius as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, ...

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - Is there a Core Project?

23 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Christopher Gill, University of Exeter, meditates on Marcus Aurelius as part of the series, "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, an...

Empedocles' Dynamic, Changeless World

23 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In this talk Anna Marmodoro, Corpus Christi, Oxford, explore the view that Empedocles' world is both dynamic and changeless, and investigate the metap...

Powers in the cosmic cycle

23 Aug 2013

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A talk given by Professor Oliver Primavesi, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.

Empedoclean Superorganisms

23 Aug 2013

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A talk about Empedoclean Superorganisms from Professor David Sedley, Christ's College, Cambridge, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.

Which Things have Divine Names in Empedocles and Why?

23 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

A talk from Professor Catherine Rowett, University of East Anglia, from a series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.

Elemental Change in Empedocles

23 Aug 2013

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John shows how recognising that the Empedoclean roots - fire, water, earth, and air - are subject to forms of generation and destruction consistent wi...

Thinking Structure

23 Aug 2013

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Patricia Curd takes the problem of structure to cover both of these questions: (1) How is it that the cosmos is an organized system of diverse entiti...

The Metaphysics of Rovelli's Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

12 Dec 2012

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Mauro Dorato (University of Rome) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London.

Causal Relations

12 Dec 2012

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John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of...

External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency

12 Dec 2012

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Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. ...

Relations All The Way Down?

12 Dec 2012

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Stephen Mumford (Nottingham University) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London...

Positionalism Revisited

12 Dec 2012

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Maureen Donnelly (SUNY at Buffalo) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. In ...

There Are (Probably) No Relations

12 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Lowe (University of Durham) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London.

Galen and the Ontology of Powers

12 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conferenc...

Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen

12 Dec 2012

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Brooke Holmes (Princeton University) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held a...

On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy

12 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Hans-Georg Moeller (University College Cork), gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conferenc...

Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity

12 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Philip van der Ejik gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi ...

A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy

12 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held at Senate House, University of London on 3rd-5th...

A Platonic Theory of Truthmaking

06 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Berman (St Louis Univ.) lays out and defends a platonic explanation of non-modal and modal truths using Forms as their truthmakers. He argues that thi...

Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions

06 Mar 2012

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Kistler (Sorbonne) introduces a distinction between powers and dispositions: A 'multi-track disposition' manifests itself in different ways Mi in diff...

Limitations of Power

15 Feb 2012

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Bird (Bristol) warns against overextending the case for a powers ontology, arguing that it cannot answer typical questions outside fundamental metaphy...

Mutual Manifestations and Martin's Two Triangles

15 Feb 2012

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Mumford (Nottingham) argues that although superior to a stimulus-response model, Martin's mutual manifestation model must be amended to resemble less ...

Identity, Individuality and Discernibility

15 Feb 2012

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Ladyman (Bristol) explains the recent debates about the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles and results about weak discernibility. He consider...

Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies

15 Feb 2012

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Van Inwagen (Notre Dame) argues that relational ontologies (denying properties can be constituents of particulars) are preferable to constituent ontol...

Is causation a relation?

15 Feb 2012

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Jacobs (St. Louis Univ.) explores the view that between a substance and its power, on one hand, and the result of the substance manifesting its power,...