Podcasts
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation (Conference on the 11th & 12th of January 2018)
The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time (conference, 13–15 March 2016)
David Albert:
On the Emergence of Space and Time
Craig Callender:
Bohumian Rhapsody
Michael Esfeld:
Leibnizian Relationalism: A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World
Richard Healey:
On the Independent Emergence of Space-time
Jenann Ismael:
Space and Fundamentality
Oliver Pooley:
Fundamentality and the Dynamical Approach to Relativity
Jonathan Schaffer:
Beyond Fundamentality
Christian Wütrich:
Grounding (Space-)Time
Hilary Term 2017
Umut Baysan
Epiphenomenal Properties
Tomasz Bigaj
How to Explain Non-local Correlations in Entangled States
Luke Fenton-Glynn
Probabilistic Actual Causation
Chiara Marletto
Constructor Theory
Chris Martin
Peter Abaelard and the Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
Alyssa Ney
Wave Function Realism in a Relativistic Setting
Christian Wuthrich
When The Actual World Is Not Even Possible
Michaelmas Term 2016
Robert Koons
The Oxford Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics:
A Hylomorphic Critique and Alternative
Fabrice Correia
Essence as Generalised Identity and Real Definition
Eleanor Knox
Spacetime Functionalism
Elena Castellani
Objects, Structures and Physics
Marc Sinclair
Being Inclined: Tendency, Inclination and the Metaphysics of Powers
Trinity Term 2016
Robert J. Hankinson
Stoic Materialism and the Metaphysics of Powers
Naoya Iwata
Aristotle on Geometry and Disposition
Raphaël Künstler
Why is Knowledge Power?
Anna Schriefl
Aristotle's Concept of Matter
Nahuel Sznajderhaus
Realism and Quantum Mechanics: Methodological Lesson from Intertheory Relationships
The Metaphysics of the Trinity: New Directions (conference, 14–16 March 2016)
Nikk Effingham:
Proceeding and Filioque
John Heil:
Being of One Substance
Shieva Kleinschmidt:
Simple Trinitarianism
Robert Koons:
Divine Persons as Relational Qua-Objects
Brian Leftow:
The Trinity is Unconstitutional
Mark Makin:
God from God: The Essential Dependence Model of Eternal Generation
Daniel Molto:
The Mereology of Latin Trinitarianism
Richard Swinburne:
Defending the Social Theory of the Trinity
Hilary Term 2016
Michael Esfeld
Against properties: why relations are sufficient
Matthew Meyer
Nietzsche's Ontic Structural Realism?
Stephen Mumford
New meditations on first philosophy, in which causation's nature and existence is demonstrated
Rowland Stout
Actions and Achievements
Michaelmas Term 2016
Mario De Caro
Liberal naturalism and pluralistic realism
Jonathan Hill
Varieties of Identity: Metaphysics, Entanglement, and Christian Theology
Peter Simons
Metaphysics in the Community: Reaching Out to the Parts of Being
Trinity Term 2015
David Papineau
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
Walter Schultz and Lisanne Winslow
Causation, Dispositions, and Divine Action
Paul Symington
Powerful Logic: Aquinas's Unified Theory of Prime Matter as Principle of Individuation & Pure Potency
Hilary Term 2015
Rani Lill Anjum
Causation in Medicine
Michal Glowala
What is it for a power to be triggered and exercised?
John Heil
Ordinary Objects
Andreas Hüttemann
Dispositions and conditional metaphysical necessity
Michaelmas Term 2015
Stephen Barker
Heraclitean Time: Beyond Presentism and Growing Blocks
Anjan Chakravartty
Fundamental Particles and (Potentially Powerful) Structures: A Proposal for Realist Pragmatism
Paul Scade
Thought and Reality in Stoic Ontology
Tuomas E. Tahko
The Modal Status of Laws: In Defence of a Hybrid View
Barbara Vetter
A Plenitude of Powers
Selections from the Power Structuralism Podcasts collection:
Alexander Bird:
Limitations of Power
John Dupré:
Processes and Powers
Stephen French:
Doing Away With Dispositions
John Heil:
Cartesian Transubstantiation
Max Kistler:
Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions
Timothy O'Connor:
Two Concepts of Emergence
John Pemberton:
Manifestations of Powers: Timing and Continuity
Peter Simons:
Causes, Powers and Structures in a Factored Process Ontology: Solutions and Lacunae
Mark Sinclair:
Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions
Galen Strawson:
Structure and Quality
Neil Williams:
Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods
Alastair Wilson:
Quidditism and Modal Methodology