Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
A talk given by Professor Oliver Primavesi, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.
Empedoclean Superorganisms
23 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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,...