Powerful Qualities: A Workshop with John Heil

April 26, 2012 - April 27, 2012
Corpus Christi College, Oxford University

Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College
Oxford
United Kingdom

Speakers:

John Heil
Washington University in St. Louis
Alexander Kelly
University of Warwick
Anna Marmodoro
Oxford University

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This two day workshop will explore the metaphysics of powers by engaging with the recent work of John Heil on this topic. Heil's theory of powerful qualities will be investigated with particular attention to understanding how it compares with Power Structuralism, and what is distinctive in each theory. The workshop will include talks by John Heil, Anna Marmodoro and Alexander Kelly, and will also allow ample time for discussion of any issue from John Heil's work.


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Thursday 26th of April 

4-5pm Q&A session with John Heil about his own work and that of C.B. Martin

5-6:30pm David Yates (King's College London) 

`Pure Powers and Powerful Qualities'

Commentator: Alastair Wilson; Chair: Alexander Kelly

6:30pm Drinks


Friday 27th of April

9:30-11am Anna Marmodoro (University of Oxford) 

`Aristotelian Powers at Work:  Reciprocity without Symmetry in Causation' 

Commentator:  Erasmus Mayer; Chair:  Donnchadh O Conaill 

11-11:30 coffee break

11:30am-1pm Jonathan Lowe (Durham University)

`Powers:  Single- or Multi- Track?'

Commentator:  Nick Jones; Chair:  Sam Coleman 

1-2pm lunch (free sandwich lunch in college)

2-3:30pm John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis)

`Real Modalities' 

Commentator:  Valdi Ingthorsson; Chair:  Josh Parsons 

3:30 tea/coffee

Registration is free but it would be helpful if you could email [email protected] if you plan to attend.

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