Hilary Term 2017
26/01/2017, 11:30am-13:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
          Umut Baysan (University of Glasgow)
          Epiphenomenal Properties.

09/02/2017, 11:30am-13:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
          Chiara Marletto (University of Oxford)
Constructor Theory.

23/02/2017, 11:30am-13:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
          Christian Loew (University of Luxembourg)
          Making best systems best for us.

09/03/2017, 11:30am-13:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
          Tomasz Bigaj (University of Warsaw)
          How to explain non-local correlations in entangled states.

Trinity Term 2016

26/04/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
          Anna Schriefl (University of Bonn, Germany)
Aristotle's Concept of Matter

04/05/2016, 11:00am-12:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
          Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin)
Stoic Materialism and the Metaphysics of Powers.

18/05/2016, 11:00am-12:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
          Florian Fischer (University of Bonn, Germany)
          On the Modal Status of the Laws of Nature

24/05/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
          Naoya Iwata (University of Cambridge)
Aristotle on Geometry and Disposition: Metaphysics Θ9, 1051a21-33

02/06/2016, 11:30am-1:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room: **TIME CHANGED**
          Nahuel Sznajderhaus (University of Leeds)
Realism and Quantum Mechanics: Methodological Lesson from Intertheory
Relationships

15/06/2016, 11:30am-13:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
          Raphael Kunstler (Institut Jean Nicod)
Why is Knowledge power?

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Hilary Term 2016

26/01/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Matthew Meyer (The University of Scranton)
Nietzsche's Ontic Structural Realism? Paper

03/02/2016, 5-6.30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Rowland Stout (University College Dublin)
Actions and Achievements

09/02/2016, 5:00-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
          Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Against properties: why relations are sufficient

23/02/2016, 5:00-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Magdalena Bosch Rabell (UIC, Barcelona)
The power of the Desire in Nicomachean Ethics

01/03/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Andrea Bottani (University of Bergamo)
Outline of a Locationist Theory of Properties

08/03/2016, 5:00pm-6.30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Matthew Tugby (Durham University)
   A Platonic and Qualitative Theory of Powers

Michaelmas Term 2015

20/10/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:

Bryan Reece (University of Toronto)
Aristotle and Powers Theories of Action

03/11/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:

Michel Bastit (Université de Bourgogne)
Power, bearers of powers and the priority of act

(full paper here)

10/11/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room:

Gabriele Cornelli (Universidade de Brasilia)
Plato sailing upstream: the image of the ship in the Republic

24/11/2015, 5.00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:

Giannis Stamatellos (The American College of Greece)
Plotinus on soul's inner privacy

01/12/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Mario De Caro (Università Roma Tre)
Liberal naturalism and pluralistic realism

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Trinity Term 2015

05/05/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Paul Symington (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
Powerful Logic: Aquinas's Unified Theory of Prime Matter as Principle of Individuation & Pure Potency

19/05/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin)
Quantum Hylomorphism vs. Microphyscalism: Aristotelian Pluralism as an Interpretation of Quantum Theory and Mesoscopic Emergence
Paper available here

26/05/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Patricio Fernandez and Jorge Mittlemann (Universidad de los Andes, Chile)
Aristotle on Crafts and Souls as Principles of Change

02/06/2015, 5.00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

David Papineau (King's College London)
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience

09/06/2015, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Walter Schultz and Lisanne Winslow (University of Northwestern)
Causation, Dispositions and Divine Action
16/06/2015, 5:00pm-6.30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Yoav Meyrav (Tel Aviv University)
Themistius About Spontaneous Generation in Context

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Hilary Term 2015

27/01/2015, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Michal Glowala (University of Wroclaw)

What is it for a power to be triggered and exercised? Poiesis-pathesis identity in Aristotelian ontologies of powers.

10/02/2015, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

John Heil (Washington University in St Louis)

Ordinary Objects

17/02/2015, 2.30pm-4.00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Salim Hireche (UNIGE)

The Metaphysics of Modality: Some Bases for a Homogeneous Essentialist View

24/02/2015, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Toby Friend (UCL)

Minimal systems and Nomological Analysis of Causation

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Michaelmas Term 2014

21/10/2014, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Tuomas E. Tahko (University of Helsinki)

The Modal Status of Laws: In Defence of a Hybrid View

11/11/2014, 2.30pm-4.00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Paul Scade (Istanbul Sehir University)

Thought and Reality in Stoic Ontology

02/12/2014, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Vladimir Mikes (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Function of sayable (lekton) in the Stoic theory of action: new approach to Stoic incorporeals?

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Trinity Term 2014

29/04/2014, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Giannis Stamatellos (DEREE – The American College of Greece)

`Philia and Neikos in Plotinus' Enneads'

06/05/2014, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Marco Zingano (University of São Paulo)

‘Aristotle's Categories and the Doctrine of Characteristic Traits of Being’ — Handout here.

20/05/2014, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

David Butorac (Fatih University)

`A Most Synoptic Method: Alexander Aphrodisias, John Philoponus and Proclus' Parmenides'

23/05/2014, 11:30am–1:30, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Carlo Natali (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

`Aristotle's Political Materialism'

03/06/2014, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania)

`Posidonius on Divination'

06/06/2014, 11:00am–1:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Morelli Room:

Tianyue Wu (Peking University)

`The Ontological Status of the Body in Aquinas' Hylomorphism'

10/06/2014, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Irini Viltanioti (Université Libre, Brussels)

`Porphyry, Iamblichus and the Cult of Statues in Makarios Magnes' Apokritikos'

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Hilary Term 2014

28/01/2014, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Tomasz Tiuryn (University of Warsaw)

‘Alexander of Aphrodisias on Universals’

11/02/2014, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Tim O'Connor (Indiana University)

‘Two Concepts of Emergence’

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Michaelmas Term 2013

22/10/2013, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Jan Opsomer (University of Leuven)

`Ancient Platonists in Defence of Geometric Atomism'

29/10/2013, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Gabriele Cornelli (University of Brasilia)

`All is Number?'

01/11/2013, 11:00am-1:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia)

`On Being Reminded of Heraclitus by the Lyre in Plato's Phaedo'

12/11/2013, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Richard Sorabji (Oxford)

`What did Philoponus Write and When?'

19/11/2013, 2:30pm–4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room:

Donald Morrison (Rice University)

`The Happiness of the City in Aristotle's Politics'

20/11/2013, 11:00am–12:45pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room:

Pantelis Golitsis (Freie Universität Berlin)

`John Philoponus' commentary on the third book of Aristotle's De anima, wrongly attributed to Stephanus'

03/12/2013, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:

Henry Laycock (Queens University, Ontario)

'Presocratic Metachemistry: Four Forms of Boundlessness'

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