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metaphysics

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.
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Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

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

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Aristotle on the Happiness of the City

Don Morison (Rice) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontology series.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge?

Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.

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