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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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| 58 | Two Concepts of Emergence | Timothy O'Connor (Indiana) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series. | Tim O'Connor | 07 May 2014 | |
| 57 | Creative Commons | Processes and Powers | John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series | John Dupré | 07 May 2014 |
| 56 | Creative Commons | Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods | Neil Williams (Buffalo University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series | Neil Williams | 07 May 2014 |
| 55 | Creative Commons | 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 | Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson | 07 May 2014 |
| 54 | Creative Commons | 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. | Stephen French | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 53 | Creative Commons | Quidditism and Modal Methodology | Alastair Wilson, Birmingham, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series | Alastair Wilson | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 52 | Creative Commons | 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. | Nick Jones | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 51 | Creative Commons | 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 | Henry Mendell | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 50 | Creative Commons | Aristotle on the Happiness of the City | Don Morison (Rice) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontology series. | Don Morison | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 49 | Creative Commons | Pluralism and Determinism | Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series. | Thomas Sattig | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 48 | Creative Commons | Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions | Mark Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series | Mark Sinclair | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 47 | Creative Commons | Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge? | Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series. | Claudine Tiercelin | 18 Feb 2014 |
| 46 | Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument | Nick Denyer (Cambridge) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series | Nick Denyer | 13 Feb 2014 | |
| 45 | Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: How Stoic are They? | Christopher Gill (Exeter) gives a talk on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and asks How Stoic are They? | Christopher GIll | 13 Feb 2014 | |
| 44 | Creative Commons | Moral Development and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle | Steve Makin, (Sheffield) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series | Steve Makin | 13 Feb 2014 |
| 43 | Creative Commons | Freedom and Responsibility Revisited | Richard Sorabji gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontolgies podcast series | Richard Sorabji | 13 Feb 2014 |
| 42 | Creative Commons | Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others' Minds | Stephen Butterfill gives a talk on philosophy and collective agency and other people's minds | Stephen Butterfill | 12 Feb 2014 |
| 41 | Creative Commons | Aristotle on Singular Thought | Mika Perala gives a talk on Aristotle's philosophy | Mika Perala | 12 Feb 2014 |
| 40 | Creative Commons | Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses | Louise Fiona Richardson gives a talk on philosophy and perception | Louise Fiona Richardson | 12 Feb 2014 |
| 39 | Common Sense and Metaperception | Jerome Dokic gives a talk on common sense and philosophy | Jerome Dokic | 12 Feb 2014 | |
| 38 | Creative Commons | The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect | Howard Robinson gives a talk on philosophy and the role of the intellect | Howard Robinson | 12 Feb 2014 |
| 37 | Creative Commons | Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles | Anna Marmodoro gives a talk on Aristotle and his philosophy | Anna Marmodoro | 12 Feb 2014 |
| 36 | Creative Commons | 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 Madden | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 35 | Creative Commons | 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'. | Richard Sorabji | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 34 | Creative Commons | 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'. | Peter Simons | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 33 | Creative Commons | 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. | Nancy Cartwright | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 32 | Cartesian Transubstantiation | John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, gives a talk on Cartesian Transubstantiation. | John Heil | 23 Aug 2013 | |
| 31 | Creative Commons | 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. | Jim Hankinson | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 30 | Creative Commons | 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. | Jeffrey E Brower | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 29 | Creative Commons | Structure and Quality | A talk from Galen Strawson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas. | Galen Strawson | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 28 | Creative Commons | 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". | John Sellars | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 27 | Creative Commons | 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". | Michael Griffin | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 26 | Creative Commons | 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". | Mark Edwards | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 25 | Creative Commons | 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". | Christopher GIll | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 24 | Creative Commons | 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. | Anna Marmodoro | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Powers in the cosmic cycle | A talk given by Professor Oliver Primavesi, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics. | Oliver Primavesi | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Empedoclean Superorganisms | A talk about Empedoclean Superorganisms from Professor David Sedley, Christ's College, Cambridge, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics. | David Sedley | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | 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. | Catherine Rowett | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | 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. | John Palmer | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | 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? | Patricia Curd | 23 Aug 2013 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | 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. | Mauro Dorato | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | 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. | John Heil | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | 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. | Peter Simons | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 15 | 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. | Stephen Mumford | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 14 | 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. | Maureen Donnelly | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 13 | 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. | Jonathan Lowe | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 12 | Creative Commons | 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. | Jim Hankinson | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | 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. | Brooke Holmes | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 10 | Creative Commons | 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. | Hans-Georg Moeller | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 9 | 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. | Philip van der Ejik | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 8 | Creative Commons | 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. | Jessica Wilson | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | 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. | Scott Berman | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | 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. | Max Kistler | 06 Mar 2012 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | 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. | Alexander Bird | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | 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. | Stephen Mumford | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | 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. | James Ladyman | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | 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). | Peter Van Inwagen | 15 Feb 2012 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | 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. | Jonathan Jacobs | 15 Feb 2012 |