Corpus Christi College

Series associated with Corpus Christi College

The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation

#	Episode Title	Description	People	Date
5	Modal Epistemology and the Formal Identity of Intellect and Object	A defence of the Formal Identity Thesis and of the immateriality of the human intellect, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths, including especially essential truths about value.	Robert Koons	27 Feb 2018
4	Hylomorphism, natural science, mind and God	Howard Robinson argues that the early moderns were right to think that Aristotelian or scholastic hylomorphism was inconsistent with modern science.	Howard Robinson	27 Feb 2018
3	Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation	David Yates argues that some physically realised qualitative properties have their causal roles solely in virtue of being the qualities they are, and not in virtue of the powers bestowed by their physical realizers on a given occasion.	David yates	27 Feb 2018
2	A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism	Utilising recent advances in developmental biology, Christopher Austin argues that the hylomorphic framework is an empirically adequate and conceptually rich explanatory schema with which to model the nature of organisms.	Christopher J Austin	27 Feb 2018
1	Hylomorphic Structure, Emergence, and Supervenience	William Jaworski argues why the hylomorphic structure is the best (and perhaps only) thing that can explain the persistence of individuals that change their matter over time.	William Jaworski	27 Feb 2018