Two Concepts of Emergence
Timothy O'Connor (Indiana) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series. Abstract: The correlated terms "em...
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Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Exploring various aspects of modern and ancient metaphysics as they relate to the hypothesis that powers (or dispositions) are the sole elementary building block in ontology.
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20 of 57 episodesProcesses and Powers
John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: This talk will explore the impli...
Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods
Neil Williams (Buffalo University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract; The typical under...
Causal Production as Interaction: a Causal Account of Persistence and Grounding
Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (Lund University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: In this tal...
Doing Away With Dispositions: Towards a Law-Based Account of Modality in Science
Stephen French (Leeds) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series. Abstract: 'Recent defences of dispositionalism...
Quidditism and Modal Methodology
Alastair Wilson, Birmingham, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series Abstract: Jonathan Schaffer has recently...
The Fundamentality of the Familiar
Nick Jones, University of Birmingham, gives a talk in which he appeal to an examination of the explanatory role of ordinary macroscopic obje...
Aristotle's Dynamics in Physics VII 5: the Importance of Being Conditional
Henry Mendell (California State) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series Abstract: Historians in the twentieth...
Aristotle on the Happiness of the City
Don Morison (Rice) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontology series. Abstract: 'The happiness of the city (the eudaimonia...
Pluralism and Determinism
Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series. Abstract: 'Pluralists about material objects...
Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions
Mark Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series In Getting Causes from Powers,...
Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge?
Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series. Abstract 'I will examine the c...
Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument
Nick Denyer (Cambridge) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: Stilpo engaged triumphantly...
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: How Stoic are They?
Christopher Gill (Exeter) gives a talk on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and asks How Stoic are They? Abstract: In this paper I address the lo...
Moral Development and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle
Steve Makin, (Sheffield) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: Aristotle emphasises the rol...
Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others' Minds
Stephen Butterfill gives a talk on philosophy and collective agency and other people's minds When friends walk together, they typically exer...
Aristotle on Singular Thought
Mika Perala gives a talk on Aristotle's philosophy Aristotle states in the De Memoria et Reminiscentia that we have memories of individuals...
Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses
Louise Fiona Richardson gives a talk on philosophy and perception It is beyond dispute that the senses interact. In this paper I will consid...
Common Sense and Metaperception
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 app...
The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect
Howard Robinson gives a talk on philosophy and the role of the intellect Abstract: First, I will consider Jaworski’s interesting recent atte...