Biographies
Power, Perception & Agency Summer School Lecturers
Dr Anna Marmodoro
Official Fellow in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Dr Anna Marmodoro is an Official Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She specialises in ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. Recent publications include a monograph on Aristotle on Perceiving Objects (OUP 2014); a number of edited volumes among which includes The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations, Routledge, 2010; and numerous articles and book chapters. She directs a large-scale research group in Oxford funded by a starting investigator award from the European Research Council investigating Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies.
Dr Erasmus Mayr
Junior Research Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford
Dr Erasmus Mayr is a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at The Queen’s College Oxford. He studied Philosophy and Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, where he also did his Ph.D. in Philosophy. He went on to train as a lawyer, doing his practical law course and 2nd state exam in law at the Regional Court Munich I. After working as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Lecturer) at the Faculty of Philosophy at the LMU, he came to Oxford in 2011. His research areas include philosophy of action, ethics, and philosophy of law. His publications include ‘Understanding Human Agency’, OUP 2011.
Power, Perception & Agency Summer Conference Speakers
Professor Stephen Mumford
Professor of Metaphysics and Executive Dean of Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham
Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham UK. He is the author of Dispositions (Oxford, 1998), Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge, 2003), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), David Armstrong (Acumen, 2007), Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion (Routledge, 2011), Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford, 2011 with Rani Lill Anjum), Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012) and Causation: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2013 with Rani Lill Anjum). He was editor of George Molnar's posthumous Powers: a Study in Metaphysics (Oxford, 2003) and Metaphysics and Science (Oxford, 2013 with Matthew Tugby). His PhD was from the University of Leeds in 1994 and he has been at Nottingham since 1995 having served as Head of the Department of Philosophy and Head of the School of Humanities.
Professor John Heil
Professor, Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Washington University, St Louis
John Heil is professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. He works chiefly on topics in metaphysics. His most recent book, The Universe as We Find It, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He is currently working on the question, when modal assertions are true, what makes them true?
Professor William Jaworski
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York
William Jaworski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of Philosophy of Mind: A Comprehensive Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind: How Hylomorphism Solves the Mind-Body Problem (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Professor Christopher Martin
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Auckland University
Christopher Martin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. He is currently working on a study of the development of logic in the middle ages to be called Negation and its Consequences. Other major research interests are ancient and mediaeval semantics and mediaeval attempts to reconcile divine foreknowledge with human freedom.