Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

by Oxford University
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Exploring various aspects of modern and ancient metaphysics as they relate to the hypothesis that powers (or dispositions) are the sole elementary building block in ontology.

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Recent Episodes
  • Two Concepts of Emergence
    May 7, 2014 – 54:20
  • Processes and Powers
    May 7, 2014 – 57:20
  • Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods
    May 7, 2014 – 48:46
  • Causal Production as Interaction: a Causal Account of Persistence and Grounding
    May 7, 2014 – 55:44
  • Doing Away With Dispositions: Towards a Law-Based Account of Modality in Science
    Feb 18, 2014 – 50:06
  • Quidditism and Modal Methodology
    Feb 18, 2014 – 57:31
  • The Fundamentality of the Familiar
    Feb 18, 2014 – 45:52
  • Aristotle's Dynamics in Physics VII 5: the Importance of Being Conditional
    Feb 18, 2014 – 56:28
  • Aristotle on the Happiness of the City
    Feb 18, 2014 – 39:15
  • Pluralism and Determinism
    Feb 18, 2014 – 47:31
  • Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions
    Feb 18, 2014 – 53:19
  • Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge?
    Feb 18, 2014 – 01:05:16
  • Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument
    Feb 13, 2014 – 44:40
  • Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: How Stoic are They?
    Feb 13, 2014 – 57:26
  • Moral Development and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle
    Feb 13, 2014 – 48:19
  • Freedom and Responsibility Revisited
    Feb 13, 2014 – 42:59
  • Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others' Minds
    Feb 12, 2014 – 57:50
  • Aristotle on Singular Thought
    Feb 12, 2014 – 40:55
  • Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses
    Feb 12, 2014 – 46:48
  • Common Sense and Metaperception
    Feb 12, 2014 – 50:58
  • The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect
    Feb 12, 2014 – 44:12
  • Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles
    Feb 12, 2014 – 51:53
  • The Persistence of Animate Organisms
    Aug 23, 2013 – 01:00:32
  • Freedom and Responsibility Revisited
    Aug 23, 2013 – 01:11:54
  • Causes, Powers and Structures in a Factored Process Ontology: Solutions and Lacunae
    Aug 23, 2013 – 01:11:33
  • There are Mechanisms, and Then There are Mechanisms
    Aug 23, 2013 – 46:08
  • Cartesian Transubstantiation
    Aug 23, 2013 – 52:40
  • Powers, Functions and Parts: the Stoics (and Others) on the Nature of the Passions
    Aug 23, 2013 – 58:39
  • Aristotelian v. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations
    Aug 23, 2013 – 45:39
  • Structure and Quality
    Aug 23, 2013 – 47:19
  • Freedom and Indifference in Marcus Aurelius
    Aug 23, 2013 – 45:03
  • Marcus on Becoming Whole
    Aug 23, 2013 – 01:03:06
  • Religious Debate and Religious Competition in the Age of Marcus Aurelius
    Aug 23, 2013 – 52:19
  • Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - Is there a Core Project?
    Aug 23, 2013 – 54:00
  • Empedocles' Dynamic, Changeless World
    Aug 23, 2013 – 47:28
  • Powers in the cosmic cycle
    Aug 23, 2013 – 41:42
  • Empedoclean Superorganisms
    Aug 23, 2013 – 38:11
  • Which Things have Divine Names in Empedocles and Why?
    Aug 23, 2013 – 57:37
  • Elemental Change in Empedocles
    Aug 23, 2013 – 59:38
  • Thinking Structure
    Aug 23, 2013 – 57:18
  • The Metaphysics of Rovelli's Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    Dec 12, 2012 – 39:30
  • Causal Relations
    Dec 12, 2012 – 36:29
  • External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency
    Dec 12, 2012 – 42:10
  • Relations All The Way Down?
    Dec 12, 2012 – 51:58
  • Positionalism Revisited
    Dec 12, 2012 – 01:03:45
  • There Are (Probably) No Relations
    Dec 12, 2012 – 52:55
  • Galen and the Ontology of Powers
    Dec 12, 2012 – 01:04:06
  • Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen
    Dec 12, 2012 – 53:43
  • On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy
    Dec 12, 2012 – 39:33
  • Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity
    Dec 12, 2012 – 51:43
Recent Reviews
  • michaeldanielcastillo
    An ontology of the universe.
    Nothing else to say. 〽️.
  • Marktbfl
    Frustrating
    Why no introduction or program notes to explain who is lecturing ?
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