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Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Was Schubert a musical brain?

Prof. Raymond Tallis deepens his argument against the idea that we are our brains. He believes there is a distinction in kind between humans and other animals. This he illustrates by appeal to the differences between the music of Schubert and the singing
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Spiders, yes, but why cats?

Prof.Iain McGilchrist illustrates his argument by appeal to a number of paintings done by psychotic patients. He points to various commonalities between these paintings and speculates on the ways in which they support claims about the two hemispheres and
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Processes and Powers

John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Am I my mind?

Prof. Iain McGilchrist, whilst agreeing with Tallis that we are not our brains argues that we can learn a great deal about our culture by learning more about our brain. In particular we should recognise we have two hemispheres, each with a different funct
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Am I my brain?

Prof. Raymond Tallis argues that extraordinary claims have been made for neurophysiology. For example it has been said that a person is nothing but his or her brain. Professor Raymond Tallis rejects this ‘neuromania’. He shows why it is attractive, but al
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

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
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

The Truth about Art 3 - Aesthetics

Another ancient belief held that an art should be governed by rules.
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

The Truth about Art 1 - Mystery or Mastery

E.H. Gombrich famously observed that 'there really is no such thing as Art' (with a capital A).
Changing Character of War

Remembering War

Marking the anniversary of the first world war, Professor Cecile Fabre considers why we remember war,
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Answers to Questions

Answers to Questions posed in lectures 1 to 6 of Marianne Talbot's lecture series on critical reasoning for beginners.
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

Quidditism and Modal Methodology

Alastair Wilson, Birmingham, 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

Pluralism and Determinism

Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions

Mark Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies 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

Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument

Nick Denyer (Cambridge) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series

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