All Episodes

Two Concepts of Emergence

Processes and Powers

Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods

Causal Production as Interaction: a Causal Account of Persistence and Grounding

Doing Away With Dispositions: Towards a Law-Based Account of Modality in Science

Quidditism and Modal Methodology

The Fundamentality of the Familiar

Aristotle's Dynamics in Physics VII 5: the Importance of Being Conditional

Aristotle on the Happiness of the City

Pluralism and Determinism

Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions

Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge?

Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: How Stoic are They?

Moral Development and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle

Freedom and Responsibility Revisited

Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others' Minds

Aristotle on Singular Thought

Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses

Common Sense and Metaperception

The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect

Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles

The Persistence of Animate Organisms

Causes, Powers and Structures in a Factored Process Ontology: Solutions and Lacunae

There are Mechanisms, and Then There are Mechanisms

Cartesian Transubstantiation

Powers, Functions and Parts: the Stoics (and Others) on the Nature of the Passions

Aristotelian v. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations

Structure and Quality

Freedom and Indifference in Marcus Aurelius

Marcus on Becoming Whole

Religious Debate and Religious Competition in the Age of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - Is there a Core Project?

Empedocles' Dynamic, Changeless World

Powers in the cosmic cycle

Empedoclean Superorganisms

Which Things have Divine Names in Empedocles and Why?

Elemental Change in Empedocles

Thinking Structure

The Metaphysics of Rovelli's Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Causal Relations

External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency

Relations All The Way Down?

Positionalism Revisited

There Are (Probably) No Relations

Galen and the Ontology of Powers

Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen

On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy

Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity

A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy

A Platonic Theory of Truthmaking

Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions

Limitations of Power

Mutual Manifestations and Martin's Two Triangles

Identity, Individuality and Discernibility

Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies

Is causation a relation?