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Podcast Profile: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

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176 episodes
2012 to 2025
Median: 53 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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The podcast "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society" is a rich collection of episodes centered around philosophical discourse, featuring talks by leading philosophers on a wide range of topics. Dedicated to making philosophy accessible to the general public, the podcast encompasses discussions from diverse philosophical traditions, reflecting the mission of the Aristotelian Society.

The podcast covers a variety of philosophical themes and debates. These include metaphysical discussions on topics such as the nature of time, identity, and the self, as illustrated by episodes exploring the construction of personal identity, metaphysical views on selfhood, and the interplay between time and experience. Ethical and political philosophy is also a salient theme, with episodes focusing on moral responsibility, distributive justice, rights, and racial injustice, often engaging with classical and contemporary philosophical theories.

Another key theme is the relationship between philosophy and science. Episodes explore the interconnections between scientific discovery and philosophical inquiry, touching on issues such as the epistemological role of science, logical reasoning, and how scientific ideals relate to philosophical discourse. The podcast also delves into philosophical questions surrounding topics like beauty, consciousness, and free will, presenting a spectrum of perspectives from renowned thinkers.

The podcast represents a dynamic platform for philosophical exploration, offering insights into historical and modern debates, and fostering an understanding of complex philosophical issues. Through engaging discussions and expert analyses, it provides listeners with a comprehensive overview of current philosophical thought and its practical implications for understanding human experience and the world.

Episodes:

13/01/2024: Monima Chadha on "Can We Construct Persons?" 2025-Jan-14 55 minutes

Peter Momtchiloff on Thirty Years at OUP 2025-Jan-03 53 minutes

20/06/22: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement 2022-Jun-27 51 minutes

6/05/22: Michael Della Rocca on Moral Criticism and the Metaphysics of Bluff 2022-Jun-14 55 minutes

30/05/22: Miriam Schoenfield on Deferring to Doubt 2022-Jun-07 54 minutes

23/05/22: Alexander Mourelatos on 'Parmenides of Elea and Xenophanes of Colophon: the Conceptually Deeper Connections' 2022-May-30 72 minutes

09/05/22: Mazviita Chirimuuta on Disjunctivism and Cartesian Idealisation 2022-May-16 46 minutes

25/04/22: Emma Borg on A Defence of Individual Rationality 2022-May-02 54 minutes

21/03/22: Jack Spencer on Intrinsically Desiring the Vague 2022-Mar-23 54 minutes

07/03/22: Dawn Wilson on Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture 2022-Mar-14 52 minutes

21/02/22: Andrew Huddleston on Aesthetic Beautification 2022-Feb-28 53 minutes

31/01/22: Rachel Cristy on Commanders and Scientific Labourers: Nietzsche on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Science 2022-Feb-14 50 minutes

17/01/22: Rachael Wiseman on Metaphysics by Analogy 2022-Jan-24 56 minutes

15/11/2021: Cécile Fabre on Doxastic Wrongs, Non-spurious Generalisations and Particularised Beliefs 2021-Nov-26 47 minutes

18/10/2021: Heather Widdows on 'No Duty To Resist: Why individual resistance is an ineffective response to dominant beauty ideals' 2021-Nov-04 41 minutes

4/10/2021 – 114th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Robert Stern asks ‘How is human freedom compatible with the authority of the Good?’ Murdoch on moral agency, freedom, and imagination 2021-Oct-07 53 minutes

28/06/2021: Julia Borcherding on “I wish my Speech were like a Loadstone” – Cavendish on Love and Self-Love 2021-Jul-02 56 minutes

21/06/2021: Michael Beaney on Swimming Happily in Chinese Logic 2021-Jun-25 47 minutes

07/06/2021: Corine Besson on Knowing How to Reason Logically 2021-Jun-11 60 minutes

24/05/2021: Kenny Easwaran on a New Method for Value Aggregation 2021-May-28 57 minutes

10/05/2021: Joseph Chan on Equality, Friendship, and Politics 2021-May-17 50 minutes

24/04/2021: Ralf Bader on Coincidence and Supervenience 2021-Apr-30 54 minutes

22/03/2021: Helga Varden on Kant and Arendt on Barbaric and Totalitarian Evil 2021-Mar-29 55 minutes

08/03/2021: Nicolas Cornell on Gambling on Others and Relying on Others 2021-Mar-15 42 minutes

22/02/2021: Mary-Louise Gill on Aristotle’s Hylomorphism Reconceived 2021-Mar-01 55 minutes

01/02/2021: Barbara Sattler on Paradoxes as Philosophical Method and their Zenonian Origins 2021-Feb-15 53 minutes

18/01/2021: Lee Walters on the Linguistic Approach to Ontology 2021-Jan-25 52 minutes

16/11/2020: Leigh Jenco on Moral Knowledge and Empirical Verification in Late Ming China 2020-Nov-27 48 minutes

2/11/2020: Adrian Haddock on the Wonder of Signs 2020-Nov-09 51 minutes

19/10/2020: Tommy Curry asks 'Must there be an Empirical Basis for the Theorization of Racialized Subjects in Race-Gender Theory?' 2020-Oct-26 35 minutes

5/10/2020 – 113th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bill Brewer on the Objectivity of Perception 2020-Oct-12 45 minutes

5/10/2020 – 113th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Helen Steward introduces Bill Brewer as the 113th President of the Aristotelian Society 2020-Oct-12 6 minutes

15/6/2020: Walter Dean on Consistency and Existence in Mathematics 2020-Jun-29 70 minutes

8/6/2020: Béatrice Han-Pile on Two Puzzles in the Early Christian Constitution of the Self: Reflections on Foucault’s Interpretation of John Cassian 2020-Jun-12 56 minutes

1/6/2020: Anna Mahtani on Dutch Book and Accuracy Theorems 2020-Jun-05 46 minutes

18/5/2020: Maria Rosa Antognazza on the Distinction of Kind between Knowledge and Belief 2020-May-26 54 minutes

11/5/2020: Derrick Darby on Rights Externalism and Racial Injustice 2020-May-18 50 minutes

27/4/2020: Nancy Cartwright asks Why Trust Science? 2020-May-03 44 minutes

30/3/2020: Dana Nelkin on Equal Opportunity 2020-Apr-17 70 minutes

16/3/2020: Andrew Bacon on Vagueness at Every Order 2020-Mar-23 57 minutes

17/2/2020: Alexander Douglas on Spinoza’s Unquiet Acquiescentia 2020-Mar-01 46 minutes

3/2/2020: Philip Goff on Panpsychism and Free Will 2020-Feb-10 47 minutes

20/1/2020: Emily Thomas on Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy 2020-Jan-26 56 minutes

9/12/2019: Meena Dhanda on the Philosophical Foundations of Anti-Casteism 2019-Dec-30 56 minutes

4/11/2019: Colleen Murphy on Principled Compromises 2019-Nov-29 51 minutes

21/10/2019 – Glen Pettigrove on Ambition, Love, and Happiness 2019-Nov-03 57 minutes

7/10/2019 – 112th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Helen Steward on Free Will and External Reality: Two Scepticisms Compared 2019-Oct-15 58 minutes

3/6/2019: Kathleen Stock asks What is Sexual Orientation? 2019-Jun-07 48 minutes

28/5/2019: Thomas Sattig on the Flow of Time in Experience 2019-May-28 42 minutes

13/5/2019: Christian List on What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response 2019-May-19 65 minutes

29/4/2019: Cheshire Calhoun on Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility 2019-May-07 53 minutes

18/3/2019: Stephen Mulhall on Heidegger’s Fountain: Ecstasis, Mimesis and Engrossment in the Origin of the Work of Art 2019-Mar-31 61 minutes

4/3/2019: Sophia Connell on Care and Parenting in Aristotelian Ethics 2019-Mar-08 48 minutes

18/2/2019: Nicholas K. Jones on Propositions and Cognitive Relations 2019-Feb-24 62 minutes

4/2/2019 – Amia Srinivasan on Genealogy 2019-Feb-11 58 minutes

21/1/2019 – Keith Allen asks Whether We Should Believe Philosophical Claims on Testimony 2019-Jan-27 43 minutes

26/11/2018 – Stephen Neale on Means Means Means 2018-Dec-08 58 minutes

12/11/2018 – Rae Langton on Empathy and First Personal Imagining 2018-Nov-18 49 minutes

29/10/2018 – Fabienne Peter on Normative Facts and Reasons 2018-Nov-04 53 minutes

15/10/2018 – Sarah Fine on Refugees, Safety and a Decent Human Life 2018-Oct-22 51 minutes

1/10/2018 – 111th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Jonathan Wolff on Equality and Hierarchy 2018-Oct-12 44 minutes

8/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium VI on Fundamental Powers, featuring Alexander Bird and Barbara Vetter 2018-Sep-09 71 minutes

8/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium V on Benevolence, featuring Nomy Arpaly and Erasmus Mayr 2018-Sep-09 55 minutes

8/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium IV on What Brains-in-Vats Can Know, featuring Ofra Magidor and Aidan McGlynn 2018-Sep-09 61 minutes

7/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium II on Racial Justice, featuring Charles Mills and Katrin Flikschuh 2018-Sep-09 70 minutes

7/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium I on Plato on the Uses and Value of Knowledge, featuring Verity Hale and Melissa Lane 2018-Sep-09 64 minutes

6/7/2018: Joint Session Podcast - Inaugural Address - John Divers asks W(h)ither Metaphysical Necessity? 2018-Sep-09 47 minutes

18/6/2018: Victoria McGeer on Intelligent Capacities 2018-Jun-25 58 minutes

4/6/2018: Holly Lawford-Smith on Collective Culpability and Collective Punishment 2018-Jun-14 45 minutes

21/5/2018: Lisa Shapiro on Assuming Epistemic Authority 2018-Jun-01 45 minutes

23/4/2018: Alison Hills on Moral and Aesthetic Virtue 2018-May-13 60 minutes

19/3/2018: Martin Saar asks What is Social Philosophy? 2018-Apr-15 43 minutes

5/3/2018: Sarah Moss on Moral Encroachment 2018-Mar-12 58 minutes

19/2/2018: Alex Voorhoeve on Epicurus, Pleasure, the Complete Life, and Death: A Partial Defence 2018-Mar-01 57 minutes

5/2/2018: Craig French on Naïve Realism and Diaphaneity 2018-Feb-13 54 minutes

22/1/2018: Sarah Sawyer on the Importance of Concepts 2018-Jan-28 56 minutes

27/11/2017: Laurent Jaffro on Forgiveness and Weak Agency 2017-Dec-20 52 minutes

13/11/2017: Elizabeth Ashford on the Infliction of Severe Povertyas the Perfect Crime 2017-Dec-20 50 minutes

30/10/2017: John Gardner on Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful 2017-Nov-10 53 minutes

16/10/2017: François Recanati on Fictional, Metafictional, Parafictional 2017-Oct-23 48 minutes

2/10/2017 – 110th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Helen Beebee on Philosophical Scepticism 2017-Oct-08 55 minutes

19/6/2017: Shamik Dasgupta on Normative Non-Naturalism and the Problem of Authority 2017-Jul-08 50 minutes

5/6/2017: Daniel Viehoff on Serving the Governed 2017-Jun-09 56 minutes

22/5/2017: Ursula Renz on Self-Knowledge as a Personal Achievement 2017-May-31 48 minutes

8/5/2017: Gerald Lang on What Follows from Defensive Non-Liability? 2017-May-13 62 minutes

6/3/2017: Beate Roessler on Privacy as a Human Right 2017-Mar-23 52 minutes

20/2/2017: Lea Ypi on Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality 2017-Mar-02 55 minutes

6/2/2017: Genia Schönbaumsfeld on Beliefs-in-a-Vat 2017-Feb-16 52 minutes

23/1/2017: Eleanor Knox on Novel Explanation and the Special Sciences - Lessons From Physics 2017-Jan-30 44 minutes

9/1/2017: Hasok Chang on Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality 2017-Jan-17 49 minutes

28/11/2016: James Studd on Generality, Extensibility, and Paradox 2016-Dec-06 63 minutes

14/11/2016: Beth Lord on Disagreement in the Political Philosophy of Spinoza and Rancière 2016-Nov-20 43 minutes

6/10/2016: Elizabeth Cripps on Justice, Integrity and Moral Community 2016-Nov-06 51 minutes

17/10/2016 - Christopher Daly on Persistent Philosophical Disagreement 2016-Oct-24 50 minutes

3/10/2016 - 109th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Tim Crane on the Unity of Unconsciousness 2016-Oct-11 56 minutes

Dorothea Debus on Shaping Our Mental Lives 2016-Jun-26 56 minutes

Hilary Greaves on Cluelessness 2016-Jun-11 56 minutes

Dominic Scott on From Painters to Poets: Method in Plato, Republic X 2016-Jun-03 52 minutes

09/05/2016: Peter Poellner on Phenomenology and the Perceptual Model of Emotion 2016-May-21 62 minutes

25/04/2016: Mary Leng on Naturalism and Placement 2016-May-01 58 minutes

07/03/2016: Jessica Leech on the Mereology of Representation 2016-Mar-20 53 minutes

22/02/2016: Tobias Rosefeldt on Closing the Gap 2016-Feb-28 51 minutes

08/02/2016: Jules Holroyd asks What Do We Want From a Model of Implicit Cognition? 2016-Feb-18

25/01/2016: James Wilson on Internal and External Validity in Thought Experiments 2016-Feb-04 58 minutes

11/01/2016: Tim Bayne on 'Gist!' 2016-Jan-19 43 minutes

30/11/2015: Fiona Woollard on Dimensions of Demandingness 2015-Dec-06 51 minutes

16/11/2015: Jérôme Dokic on Aesthetic Experience as Metacognitive Feeling 2015-Nov-22 59 minutes

2/11/2015: Benjamin Sachs on Contractarianism as a Political Morality 2015-Nov-14 42 minutes

19/10/2015: David Enoch on What’s Wrong with Paternalism:Autonomy, Belief and Action 2015-Oct-27 48 minutes

5/10/2015 - 108th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Susan James on Freedom and Nature: A Spinozist Invitation 2015-Oct-11 53 minutes

15/6/2015: Susanna Siegel on Epistemic Charge 2015-Jun-22 65 minutes

1/6/2015: Giles Pearson asks What are Sources of Motivation? 2015-Jun-08 44 minutes

18/5/2015: Sacha Golob on Self-Knowledge, Agency and Self-Authorship 2015-May-26 65 minutes

11/05/2015: Simon Prosser on Why are Indexicals Essential? 2015-May-12 66 minutes

27/4/2015: Christoph Hoerl on Writing on the Page of Consciousness 2015-May-05 49 minutes

9/3/2015: Matthew Chrisman on Knowing What One Ought To Do 2015-Mar-16 45 minutes

23/2/2015: Louise Richardson on Perceptual Activity and Bodily Awareness 2015-Feb-26 47 minutes

9/2/2015: Sophie Gibb on Defending Dualism 2015-Feb-17 50 minutes

26/1/2015: Dominic Gregory on Visual Content, Expectations, and the Outside World 2015-Feb-02 45 minutes

12/1/2015: Michael Garnett on Freedom and Indoctrination 2015-Jan-19 51 minutes

1/12/2014: Jens Timmermann on What’s Wrong with ‘Deontology’? 2014-Dec-08 45 minutes

17/11/2014: Paulina Sliwa on Understanding and Knowing 2014-Nov-25 44 minutes

3/11/2014: John Heil on Aristotelian Supervenience 2014-Nov-11 44 minutes

20/10/2014: Catharine Abell on Genre, Interpretation and Evaluation 2014-Oct-27 53 minutes

6/10/2014 - 107th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Adrian Moore on Being, Univocity and Logical Syntax 2014-Oct-13 53 minutes

13/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium V on Self-Regulation, featuring Tamar Szabó Gendler and Jennifer Nagel 2014-Oct-13 63 minutes

13/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium IV on the Ethical Significance of Persistence, featuring Amber Carpenter and Stephen Makin 2014-Oct-13 60 minutes

12/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium III on Culpability, Duress and Excuses, featuring Gideon Rosen and Marcia Baron 2014-Oct-13 63 minutes

12/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium II on Moral Testimony, featuring Hallvard Lillehammer and Roger Crisp 2014-Oct-13 42 minutes

12/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Symposium I on Truth and Meaning, featuring Ian Rumfitt and Gary Kemp 2014-Oct-13 62 minutes

11/7/2014: Joint Session Podcast - Alan Millar on Reasons for Belief, Perception and Reflective Knowledge 2014-Oct-13 49 minutes

16/6/2014: Elizabeth Barnes on Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics 2014-Jun-23 53 minutes

2/6/2014: Alix Cohen on Kant on the Ethics of Belief 2014-Jun-09 51 minutes

19/5/2014: Ulrike Heuer on Intentions and the Reasons for Which We Act 2014-May-27 56 minutes

12/5/2014: Tim Button on the Weight of Truth 2014-May-27 54 minutes

28/4/2014: Eileen John on Literature and Disagreement 2014-May-06 61 minutes

10/3/2014: Jessica Moss on Plato's Appearance/Assent Account of Belief 2014-Mar-17 53 minutes

24/2/2014: Paul Faulkner on a Virtue Theory of Testimony 2014-Mar-03 55 minutes

10/2/2014: Conor McHugh on Fitting Belief 2014-Feb-17 53 minutes

27/1/2014: Robert Pippin on the Significance of Self-Consciousness in Idealist Theories of Logic 2014-Feb-03 52 minutes

13/1/2014: Nicholas Shea on Exploited Isomorphism and Structural Representation 2014-Jan-20 58 minutes

2/12/2013: Francesco Berto on Conceiving the Inconsistent 2014-Jan-07 48 minutes

18/11/2013: Jonathan Lear on Integrating the Non-Rational Soul 2013-Nov-26 59 minutes

4/11/2013: Tim Mulgan on Ethics for Possible Futures 2013-Nov-09 53 minutes

21/10/2013: Robert Kane on Acting “of One’s Own Free Will”: New Perspectives on an Ancient Philosophical Problem 2013-Oct-29 54 minutes

7/10/2013 - 106th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: David Papineau on Sensory Experience and Representational Properties 2013-Oct-11 55 minutes

3/6/2013: Oliver Pooley on Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time 2013-Jun-10 52 minutes

20/5/2013: Clayton Littlejohn on the Russellian Retreat 2013-May-29 53 minutes

13/05/2013: Gary Watson on Psychopathy and Prudential Deficits 2013-May-15 53 minutes

29/4/2013: Fabian Freyenhagen on Ethical (Self-)Critique 2013-May-08 41 minutes

22/4/2013: Ian Phillips on Perceiving the Passing of Time 2013-Apr-24 47 minutes

4/3/2013: Rowan Cruft on Why is it Disrespectful to Violate Rights? 2013-Apr-15 62 minutes

18/2/2013: John Carriero on Epistemology Past and Present 2013-Feb-25 57 minutes

4/2/2013: Josh Parsons on Presupposition, Disagreement and Predicates of Taste 2013-Feb-14 53 minutes

21/1/2013: Tom Stern on Nietzsche, Amor Fati and The Gay Science 2013-Jan-28 54 minutes

7/1/2013: Clare Chambers on the Marriage-Free State 2013-Jan-14 44 minutes

19/11/2012: Guy Longworth on Sharing Thoughts About Oneself 2012-Dec-06 56 minutes

10/12/2012: Maria Alvarez on Agency and Two-Way Powers 2013-Jan-03 45 minutes

3/12/2012: Angela Breitenbach on Aesthetics in Science: A Kantian Proposal 2012-Dec-06 43 minutes

5/11/2012: Johannes Roessler on the Epistemic Role of Intentions 2012-Nov-12 42 minutes

22/10/2012: Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra on Resemblance Nominalism, Conjunctions and Truthmakers 2012-Oct-30 24 minutes

105th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Sarah Broadie on 'Actual Instead' 2012-Oct-16 53 minutes

18/6/2012: Michael Smith on Agents and Patients 2012-Jun-27 55 minutes

14/6/2012: Kieran Setiya on Knowing How 2012-Jun-27 50 minutes

21/5/2012: Michael Thompson on You and I 2012-May-30 79 minutes

14/5/2012: Frank Jackson on Leibniz's Law and the Philosophy of Mind 2012-May-25 55 minutes

5/3/2012: Fiona Leigh on Restless Forms and Changeless Causes 2012-Mar-08 52 minutes

20/2/2012: Heather Logue on Naïve Realism 2012-Feb-24 54 minutes

6/2/2012: Stacie Friend on Fiction as a Genre 2012-Feb-21 52 minutes

23/01/2012: Dudley Knowles on Good Samaritans & Good Government 2012-Feb-21 52 minutes

9/01/2012: Seth Yalcin on Bayesian Expressivism 2012-Feb-21 60 minutes

5/12/2011: Daniel Rothschild on Expressing Credences 2012-Feb-21 55 minutes

21/11/2011: David Barnett on Counterfactual Entailment 2012-Feb-21 49 minutes

7/11/2011: Øystein Linnebo on Reference by Abstraction 2012-Feb-21 60 minutes

20/10/2011: Gianfranco Soldati on Direct Realism & Immediate Justification 2012-Feb-21 42 minutes

104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge 2012-Feb-19 53 minutes