Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
By Oxford University
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Description
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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Two Concepts of Emergence | Timothy O'Connor (Indiana) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series. Abstract: The correlated terms "emergence" and "reduction" are used in several ways in contemporary discussions ranging from complex systems theory | 7 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Processes and Powers | John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract: This talk will explore the implications for a metaphysics of powers of the replacement of a substance ontology with a process ontology. I take a | 7 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods | Neil Williams (Buffalo University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series Abstract; The typical understanding of powers—according to which they have their effects necessarily—has recently come under attack. The | 7 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 talk I will elaborate on the naturalist theory of causation that I first presented in ‘Causal Production as Inter | 7 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 and powers based accounts have appealed to the way properties such as charge and spin are treated in physics. Ho | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Quidditism and Modal Methodology | Alastair Wilson, Birmingham, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series Abstract: Jonathan Schaffer has recently defended the doctrine of quidditism against an epistemological challenge, claiming that the challenge amounts to | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 objects to argue that some of them are metaphysically fundamental. | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 century argued about whether Aristotle presents a general theory of dynamics in Physics VII 5 or merely presents | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 of the polis) is a central concept in Aristotle’s political philosophy. For example, in NE I, 2, Aristotle says | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pluralism and Determinism | Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series. Abstract: 'Pluralists about material objects believe that distinct material objects can coincide at a time—that they can exactly occupy the same spatial re | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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, Steven Mumford and Rani Lil Anjum have argued that all dispositions are to be thought as tendencies or inclinatio | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 conditions of possibility and the nature of metaphysical “knowledge”: 1) as compared with other types (mathem | 18 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 in repartee with the great dialectician Diodorus Cronus, with the celebrated courtesan Glycera, with the king Dem | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 longstanding question whether the Meditations present orthodox Stoic philosophy or a personal or eclectic selection | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 role of habituation in our acquiring moral virtues, as well as other abilities. I discuss an independently engaging | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Freedom and Responsibility Revisited | Richard Sorabji gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontolgies podcast series | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 exercise collective agency. By contrast, two strangers walking side by side exercise parallel but merely individual a | 12 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 such as Koriscus. In line with this, he assumes in many contexts (e.g. logical and ethical) that we can make sing | 12 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 consider the way in which such interaction constrains thought about the senses, and in particular, thought about how th | 12 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 apparently to monitor the activity of our sensory modalities, and to make us aware that we see, hear, touch, taste | 12 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 attempt to defend hylomorphism, understood as the irreducible and the causal efficacy of structure. I shall reject | 12 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles | Anna Marmodoro gives a talk on Aristotle and his philosophy Aristotle draws a distinction between qualities that are perceptible via a single sense only, the special sensibles, and qualities that are perceptible by more than one sense at once, the commo | 12 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Persistence of Animate Organisms | Rory Madden, Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London, gives a talk about animate organisms for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies Project. Rory argues - against prevailing opinion in the contemporary personal identity debate - tha | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Freedom and Responsibility Revisited | Professor Richard Sorabji, Wolfson College Oxford, gives a talk on freedom and responsibility as part of the series 'Talks on Powers, Structures and Relations in Ancient Philosophy'. | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Causes, Powers and Structures in a Factored Process Ontology: Solutions and Lacunae | Peter Simons, Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, gives a talk as part of the series 'Metaphysics of Powers, Causation and Persons'. A process ontology (Heraclitus, Whitehead, Rescher) takes spatiotemporally extended events and processes a | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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There are Mechanisms, and Then There are Mechanisms | Mechanisms are at centre-stage right now in philosophy of science, especially in discussions of causal explanation and causal inference. For instance Jon Williamson and Frederica Russo argue that experimental and correlational evidence is not enough, e | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cartesian Transubstantiation | John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, gives a talk on Cartesian Transubstantiation. According to the received view of the metaphysics of the Eucharist endorsed by the Catholic Church after the thirteenth century, sacrame | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Powers, Functions and Parts: the Stoics (and Others) on the Nature of the Passions | Professor Jim Hankinson, University of Texas at Austin, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies project. | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Aristotelian v. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations | Jeff Brower, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, gives a talk explaining the key differences between Aristotelian and more contemporary theories of relations. | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Structure and Quality | A talk from Galen Strawson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas. Structure considered just as such is an abstract, purely logico-mathematically characterisable phenomenon. It appears to follow that if a structure is concretely realised then it | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Freedom and Indifference in Marcus Aurelius | John Sellars, Wolfson College, Oxford, gives a talk as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives". | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marcus on Becoming Whole | Michael Griffin, Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of British Columbia, gives a talk as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives". | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Religious Debate and Religious Competition in the Age of Marcus Aurelius | Mark Edwards, Christ Church College, Oxford, discusses religion in the age of Marcus Aurelius as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives". | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - Is there a Core Project? | Professor Christopher Gill, University of Exeter, meditates on Marcus Aurelius as part of the series, "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives". | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Empedocles' Dynamic, Changeless World | In this talk Anna Marmodoro, Corpus Christi, Oxford, explore the view that Empedocles' world is both dynamic and changeless, and investigate the metaphysical account that Empedocles gives for such a world. | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Powers in the cosmic cycle | A talk given by Professor Oliver Primavesi, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics. | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Empedoclean Superorganisms | A talk about Empedoclean Superorganisms from Professor David Sedley, Christ's College, Cambridge, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics. | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Which Things have Divine Names in Empedocles and Why? | A talk from Professor Catherine Rowett, University of East Anglia, from a series on Empedocles' Metaphysics. | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Elemental Change in Empedocles | John shows how recognising that the Empedoclean roots - fire, water, earth, and air - are subject to forms of generation and destruction consistent with his rejection into nothing. This makes for improved understanding of the difficult verses at Physika | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Thinking Structure | 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 entities? (2) Why does this system maintain regularity over long periods of time? | 23 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Metaphysics of Rovelli's Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | Mauro Dorato (University of Rome) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Causal Relations | 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 London. On the received view of causation, causal relations are a distinctive species of external rela | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency | Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. Many contingent facts concern objects standing in relationships by accident, prominent among these bein | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Relations All The Way Down? | Stephen Mumford (Nottingham University) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. Co-written by Sebastian Briceno. | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Positionalism Revisited | 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 some relational claims- e.g., 'Abelard loves Eloise'-the order of the individual terms determines what | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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There Are (Probably) No Relations | Jonathan Lowe (University of Durham) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Galen and the Ontology of Powers | Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. The notion of a power, a dunamis, does a g | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen | Brooke Holmes (Princeton University) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. One of Galen's basic philosophical commitments is t | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy | Hans-Georg Moeller (University College Cork), gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. This paper explores the semantically ambig | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity | 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 College on 21st-22 September 2012. Greek medicine was, from the very beginnings, preoccupied with causa | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy | Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held at Senate House, University of London on 3rd-5th October 2012. | 12 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Platonic Theory of Truthmaking | 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 this platonic theory is parsimonious, naturalistic, and ontologically serious. | 6 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions | Kistler (Sorbonne) introduces a distinction between powers and dispositions: A 'multi-track disposition' manifests itself in different ways Mi in different triggering circumstances Ti. | 6 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Limitations of Power | Bird (Bristol) warns against overextending the case for a powers ontology, arguing that it cannot answer typical questions outside fundamental metaphysics, for example concerning the analysis of causal statements. | 15 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mutual Manifestations and Martin's Two Triangles | Mumford (Nottingham) argues that although superior to a stimulus-response model, Martin's mutual manifestation model must be amended to resemble less mereological composition and more causation. | 15 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Identity, Individuality and Discernibility | Ladyman (Bristol) explains the recent debates about the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles and results about weak discernibility. He considers their implications for structuralism and the light they shed on ontological dependence. | 15 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies | Van Inwagen (Notre Dame) argues that relational ontologies (denying properties can be constituents of particulars) are preferable to constituent ontologies (holding properties are constituents of the particulars that have them). | 15 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Is causation a relation? | 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, there is no relation at all. Thus, causal, relational truths have non-relational ontological grounds. | 15 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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