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Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

A discussion of Anna Marmodoro's book
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Two Concepts of Emergence

Timothy O'Connor (Indiana) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Processes and Powers

John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods

Neil Williams (Buffalo University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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).
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.

2011 Lecture 3: The Stoic Way of Life

Third lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series.

2011 Lecture 2: Aristotle's Philosophy as Two Ways of Life

Second lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series.

2011 Lecture 1: Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life

Part of the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series; this year presented by Professor John Cooper, Princeton University, on 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life'.

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