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Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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).
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

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.
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 4: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

Marianne Talbot presents the fourth of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, wondering if we are asking the wrong questions?
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 3: If Physicalism Won't Work, What is the Alternative?

Marianne Talbot presents the third of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on alternatives to Physicalism.
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face

Slides to accompany Marianne Talbot's second of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the problems they face.
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won't Work

Marianne Talbot presents the first of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on Identity Theory and why it won't work.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis

Professor Fernando Teson (Florida State University College of Law) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 31 Jan 2012. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making

Answers to moral questions, it seems, depend on how much serotonin there is flowing through your brain. In the future might we be able to alter people's moral behaviour with concoctions of chemicals?
Bio-Ethics Bites

Responsibility

If someone caught me shoplifting, and I was later diagnosed with kleptomania, should I be held responsible? Should I be blamed?
Bio-Ethics Bites

Selling Organs

Everyday people die in hospitals because there aren't enough organs available for transplant. In most countries of the world - though not all - it is illegal to sell organs.
Alumni Weekend

Justice Between Generations

Mark Philp, Simon Caney and Adam Swift discuss the issue of intergenerational justice and ask questions like how do we allocate resources intergenerationally accross areas like welfare, pensions, higher education and environmental costs?
St Anne's College

An interview with Gabriele Taylor by Dr Nigel Bowles

An interview with the philosopher Gabriele Taylor (Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's) conducted by Dr Nigel Bowles (Director of the Rothermere American Institute).
Bio-Ethics Bites

Trust

Radically new techniques are opening up exciting possibilities for those working in health care - for psychiatrists, doctors, surgeons; the option to clone human beings, to give just one example.
Oxford Humanities - Research Showcase: Global Exploration, Innovation and Influence

Mindreading: From Neuroimaging to the Philosophy of Mind

Dr Timothy Baines, Oxford, gives a talk for the Oxford Humanities Research Showcase conference on 11th July 2011.
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions

4. Arguments from Harm

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses arguments that claim citizens of rich countries are responsible for harming poor people in other countries.
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions

3. Arguments from Distributive Justice

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the debate over whether distributive justice requires that well-off people do something about poverty in other countries.
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions

2. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 2

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses objections to the belief that well-off people have extremely demanding obligations to poor people in other countries.
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions

1. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 1

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, introduces some of the key concepts in philosophical debates about global poverty.

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