Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Robert Kane (Ph. D. Yale University) is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of seven books and more that seventy articles on the philosophy of mind, free will and action, ethics and value theory and philosophy of religion, inclu­ding Free Will and Values (1985), Through the Moral Maze (1994), The Significance of Free Will (Oxford, 1996), A Contem­pora­ry Introduction to Free Will (Oxford, 2005), Four Views of Free Will (co-authored with John Fischer, Derk Pereboom and Manuel Vargas, Black­well, 2007) and Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom (Cambridge, 2010). He is editor of The Ox­ford Handbook of Free Will (2002, 2nd edition, 2011), among other anthologies, and a multiple contri­bu­tor to the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. His lecture series, The Quest for Mea­ning: Va­lues, Ethics and the Modern Experience, appears in The Great Courses on Tape Series of The Teaching Company (Chantilly, Virginia). His book, The Significance of Free Will, was the first annual winner of the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award. His article, “The Modal Ontological Argument” (Mind, 1984), was selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of ten best of 1984. The recipient of fifteen major teaching awards at the University of Texas, including the President’s Excellence Award for teaching in the University’s Honors Program, he was named in 1995 one of the inaugural members of the Universi­ty’s Aca­demy of Distinguished Teachers. He is known internationally for his defense of a libertarian or incompatibilist view of free will (one that is incomaptible with determinism) and for his attempt to reconcile such a view with modern science. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Kane’s talk - 'Acting “of One’s Own Free Will”: New Perspectives on an Ancient Philosophical Problem' - at the Aristotelian Society on 21 October 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

David Papineau was born in Italy and educated in Trinidad, England, and South Africa. He has a BSc in mathematics from the University of Natal and a BA and PhD in philosophy from Cambridge. He has lectured at Reading University, Macquarie University, Birkbeck College London, and Cambridge University. Since 1990 has been Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. He was President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science for 1993-5 and President of the Mind Association for 2009-10. In 2010 he gave the Carnap Lectures in Bochum, Germany, and in 2011 the Frege Lectures in Tartu, Estonia. This year's Presidential Address marks the inauguration of Professor David Papineau (KCL) as the 106th President of the Aristotelian Society. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Broadie's address - 'Sensory Experience and Representational Properties' - at the Aristotelian Society on 7 October 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Oliver Pooley a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford. He works in the philosophy of physics and in metaphysics. Much of his research focuses on the nature of space, time and spacetime. Oliver read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, and took an MASt in Maths at St John’s College, Cambridge, before returning to Oxford to do graduate work in Philosophy. Before taking up his current position at Oriel, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. This podcast is an audio recording of Oliver's talk - "Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time" - at the Aristotelian Society on 3 June 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Clayton Littlejohn is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London. His publications include Justification and the Truth-Connection (Cambridge University Press, 2012), This is Epistemology (Wiley, Forthcoming), and Epistemic Norms, edited with John Turri (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming). His current research concerns the relation between theoretical and practical reason. This podcast is an audio recording of Clayton's talk - "The Russellian Retreat" - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 May 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Gary Watson is Provost Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Southern California. Gary's area of specialization is moral, political philosophy and legal philosophy, with a special concentration on the theory of agency and responsibility. More recently, his research investigates the question of whether criminal law has a coherent normative underpinning. This podcast is an audio recording of Gary's talk - "Psychopathy and Prudential Deficits" - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 May 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Fabian Freyenhagen is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex, having previously taught at Sheffield and Cambridge. Apart from articles and a forthcoming book on Adorno’s (practical) philosophy, he has also published on Kant and Hegel as well as on contemporary political philosophy. He has co-edited two books (Disputing the Political: Habermas and Rawls, with Gordon Finlayson; and The Legacy of John Rawls, with Thom Brooks). He is Co-Investigator of a major AHRC-funded research initiative, the Essex Autonomy Project (http://autonomy.essex.ac.uk), and has also published in this area. This podcast is an audio recording of Fabian's talk - "Ethical (Self-)Critique" - at the Aristotelian Society on 29 April 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Ian Phillips is a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at University College London. Before that he was a Fellow by Examination at All Souls College, Oxford University. Ian is the author of numerous articles in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, one of which was recently awarded the William James Prize for Contributions to the Scientific Study of Consciousness. He is currently writing a book on our experience of time. This podcast is an audio recording of Ian's talk - "Perceiving the Passing of Time" - at the Aristotelian Society on 22 April 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Rowan Cruft has taught philosophy at the University of Stirling since 2002. He has published articles on the nature and justification of rights and duties, focusing on comparisons between different forms of right: human rights, contractual rights, property rights, legal rights. He is co-editor of Crime, Punishment and Responsibility: the jurisprudence of Antony Duff (OUP 2011), and is currently co-editing OUP’s Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (forthcoming 2014). This podcast is an audio recording of Rowan's talk - "Why is it Disrespectful to Violate Rights?" - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 March 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Between two Worlds: a Reading of Descartes’s “Meditations” (2009) and co-editor with Janet Broughton of A Companion to Descartes (2008). He is especially interested in understanding early modern rationalist thought as the outgrowth of the seventeenth-century collision between the new science and Aristotelianism. His essays “Spinoza on Final Causality” (2005) and “Substance and Ends” (2008) are two significant contributions to that project. This podcast is an audio recording of John's talk - "Epistemology Past and Present" - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 February 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Josh Parsons was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and studied at Victoria University, Wellington before moving to Australia to do his PhD at the Australian National University. He worked at the Arché research centre, University of St Andrews (2001- 2004; after leaving he retained an honorary position at St Andrews until 2010); University of California, Davis (2004-2005); and Otago University (2006-2011). Josh returned to the UK to take up a lecturership at Oxford University in December 2011. This podcast is an audio recording of Josh's talk - "Presupposition, Disagreement and Predicates of Taste" - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 February 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.