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Talks on the Metaphysics of Powers, Causation and Persons

Alastair Wilson: "Quidditism and Modal Methodology"

Alexander Bird: 'Limitations of Power'

Andreas Hüttemann: "Dispositions and conditional metaphysical necessity"

Anjan Chakravartty: "Fundamental Particles and (Potentially Powerful) Structures: A Proposal for Realist Pragmatism"

Barbara Vetter: "A Plenitude of Powers"

Claudine Tiercelin: "Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge?"

Galen Strawson: "Structure and Quality"

James Ladyman: "Identity, Individuality and Discernibility"

John Dupré: "Processes and Powers"

John Heil: "Cartesian Transubstantiation"

John Heil: "Ordinary Objects"

John Pemberton: "Manifestations of Powers: Timing and Continuity"

Jon Jacobs: "Is Causation a Relation?"

Jonathan Lowe: "The Will as a Rational Free Power"

Mark Sinclair: "Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions"

Max Kistler `Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions'

Michal Glowala: "What is it for a power to be triggered and exercised?"

Nancy Cartwright: "There are Mechanisms - and Then There are Mechanisms"

Neil Williams: "Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods"

Nicholas K. Jones: "The Fundamentality of the Familiar"

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

Peter Van Inwagen: "Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies"

Rani Lill Anjum: "Causation in Medicine"

Rory Madden: "The Persistence of Animate Organisms"

Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson: "Causal Production as Interaction: a Causal Account of Persistence and Grounding"

Scott Berman 'A Platonic Theory of Truthmaking'

Stephen Barker: Heraclitean Time (Beyond Presentism and Growing Blocks)

Stephen French: "Doing Away With Dispositions"

Stephen Mumford: "Mutual Manifestation and Martin's Two Triangles"

Thomas Sattig: "Pluralism and Determinism"

Timothy O'Connor: "Two Concepts of Emergence"

Tuomas E. Tahko: "The Modal Status of Laws: In Defence of a Hybrid View"

Talks on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics

Johanna Wolff: "Spin as a Determinable"

Joshua Rosaler: "Interpretation Neutrality in the Classical Domain of Quantum Theory"

Mauro Dorato: "Quantum Mechanics as a Metaphysics of Events"

Tim Maudlin: "The Universal and the Local in Quantum Theory"

Valia Allori: "Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shift"

Wayne Myrvold: "What is a Wavefunction?"

Talks on Aristotelian and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

Anna Marmodoro: "Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles"

Howard Robinson: "The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect"

Jerome Dokic: "Common Sense and Metaperception"

Louise Richardson: "Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses"

Mika Perala: "Aristotle on Singular Thought"

Stephen Butterfill: "Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others' Minds"

Talks on the Metaphysics of Relations

Jeff Brower: "Aristotelian v. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations"

Jessica Wilson: "A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy"

John Hawthorne: "Closing Remarks"

John Heil: "Causal Relations"

Jonathan Lowe: "There are (Probably) No Relations"

Maureen Donnelly: "Positionalism Revisited"

Mauro Dorato: "The Metaphysics of Rovelli's Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics"

Peter Simons: "External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency"

Sebastián Briceño and Stephen Mumford: "Relations All the Way Down?"

Talks on Empedocles' Metaphysics

Anna Marmodoro: "Empedocles' Dynamic, Changeless World"

Catherine Rowett: "Which Things have Divine Names in Empedocles and Why?"

David Sedley: "Empedoclean Superorganisms"

John Palmer: "Elemental Change in Empedocles"

Oliver Primavesi: "Powers in the Cosmic Cycle"

Patricia Curd: "Thinking Structure"

Talks on Powers and Causation in Ancient Medical Texts

Brooke Holmes: "Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen"

Hans-Georg Moeller: "On the Health/Sickness and Strength/Weakness Distinction in Ancient Daoist Philosophy"

Jim Hankinson: "Galen and the Ontology of Powers"

Philip van der Eijk: "Powers of Medicines, Their Ontological Status and the Structure of Their Efficacy"

Miscellaneous Talks on Powers, Structures and Relations in Ancient Philosophy

Carlo Natali: "Aristotle's Political Materialism"

David Butorac: "A Most Synoptic Method: Alexander Aphrodisias, John Philoponus and Proclus' Parmenides"

Don Morison: "Aristotle on the Happiness of the City"

Gabriele Cornelli: 'Plato sailing upstream: the image of the ship in the Republic'

Giannis Stamatellos: "Philia and Neikos in Plotinus' Enneads"

Giannis Stamatellos: 'Plotinus on soul's inner privacy'

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

Irini Viltanioti: "Porphyry, Iamblichus and the Cult of Statues in Makarios Magnes' Apokritikos"

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

Marco Zingano: "Aristotle's Categories and the Doctrine of Characteristic Traits of Being"

Michel Bastit: 'Power, bearers of powers and the priority of act'

Nick Denyer: "Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument"

Paul Scade: "Thought and Reality in Stoic Ontology"

Peter Struck: "Posidonius on Divination"

Richard Sorabji: "Freedom and Responsibility Revisited"

Richard Sorabji: "Necessity and Responsibility in Alexander: Defence, Criticism and Relation to Aristotle"

Steve Makin: "Moral Development and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle"

Talks on Marcus Aurelius' Philosophy

Christopher Gill: "Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - Is there a Core Project?"

Christopher Gill: "Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: How Stoic are They?"

John Sellars: "Freedom and Indifference in Marcus Aurelius"

Mark Edwards: "Religious Debate and Religious Competition in the Age of Marcus Aurelius"

Michael Griffin: "Marcus on Becoming Whole"

Talks on Porphyry

Aaron P. Johnson: "The Philosophical Uses of historia in Porphyry"

G. Fay Edwards: "Porphyry's De Abstinentia"

Gillian Clark: "Porphyry knew better: Augustine, City of God book 10"

Mark Edwards: "Porphyry and the Justification of Allegory"

Riccardo Chiaradonna: "Porphyry's Reading of Aristotle's Categories and the Peripatetic Commentary Tradition"

Richard Sorabji: "A Romp Through Porphyry of Tyre"

Talks on Themistius

Michael Griffin: "Themistius on Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Excellence"

Frans de Haas: "Why did Themistius disagree with Alexander on Intellect?"

Peter Heather: "PPE in the Fourth Century"

Alberto Rigolio: "The Syriac De virtute: Themistius, possibly Julian, and a discourse on Cynicism (or cynicism?)"

Riccardo Chiaradonna: "Julian’s Letter to Themistius and the 4th-century philosophical debate"

Yoav Meyrav: "Themistius About Spontaneous Generation in Context"

Carlos Fraenkel and Yoav Meyrav: “Themistius' Paraphrase of Metaphysics 12: Text, Ideas, Reception”

Talks on the Metaphysics of the Stoics

Jean-Baptiste Gourinat: "The Ontology and Syntax of Stoic Causes and Effects"

Ricardo Salles: "Two Classic Problems in the Stoic Theory of Time"

Susan Sauvé Meyer: "Is Stoic Impulse a Cause of Action?"

David Sedley: "Stoics on Diachronic Identity"

Katja Vogt: "The Agency of the World"

Talks on Essence, Power and Activity in Classical and Late Antiquity

David Sedley: 'The Metaphysics of the Phaedo'

Maria-Michela Sassi: 'Ancient Reflections on the Power of Colour of Being Perceived'

Jan Opsomer: 'Essence, Power, and Activity in Proclus’ Philosophy of Nature'

Laurent Lavaud: 'What is the Difference Between Energeia and Kinesis? A Neoplatonic Controversy'

Riccardo Chiaradonna: 'Essence, Being, and Activity in Early Neoplatonism: The Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides'

Mark Edwards: 'Dunamis in Christian Theology of the Fourth Century'