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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Episode	Description	People	Date
Two Concepts of Emergence	Timothy O'Connor (Indiana) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series.	Tim O'Connor	7 May, 2014
Processes and Powers	John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series	John Dupré	7 May, 2014
Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods	Neil Williams (Buffalo University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series	Neil Williams	7 May, 2014
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	7 May, 2014
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 February, 2014
Quidditism and Modal Methodology	Alastair Wilson, Birmingham, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series	Alastair Wilson	18 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
Aristotle on the Happiness of the City	Don Morison (Rice) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontology series.	Don Morison	18 February, 2014
Pluralism and Determinism	Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series.	Thomas Sattig	18 February, 2014
Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions	Mark Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series	Mark Sinclair	18 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
Freedom and Responsibility Revisited	Richard Sorabji gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontolgies podcast series	Richard Sorabji	13 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
Aristotle on Singular Thought	Mika Perala gives a talk on Aristotle's philosophy	Mika Perala	12 February, 2014
Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses	Louise Fiona Richardson gives a talk on philosophy and perception	Louise Fiona Richardson	12 February, 2014
Common Sense and Metaperception	Jerome Dokic gives a talk on common sense and philosophy	Jerome Dokic	12 February, 2014
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 February, 2014
Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles	Anna Marmodoro gives a talk on Aristotle and his philosophy	Anna Marmodoro	12 February, 2014
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
Cartesian Transubstantiation	John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, gives a talk on Cartesian Transubstantiation.	John Heil	23 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
Structure and Quality	A talk from Galen Strawson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas.	Galen Strawson	23 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
Powers in the cosmic cycle	A talk given by Professor Oliver Primavesi, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.	Oliver Primavesi	23 August, 2013
Empedoclean Superorganisms	A talk about Empedoclean Superorganisms from Professor David Sedley, Christ's College, Cambridge, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.	David Sedley	23 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 August, 2013
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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 December, 2012
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	6 March, 2012
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	6 March, 2012
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 February, 2012
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 February, 2012
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 February, 2012
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 February, 2012
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 February, 2012

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