Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Michael Thompson received his PhD in Philosophy at UCLA, where he was a student of Philippa Foot. He is a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and was formerly an Assistant Professor at UCLA. He is the author of Life and Action (Harvard University Press 2008, 2012; Suhrkamp 2011) and "What is it to Wrong Someone?" in Reason and Value, ed. Wallace et al. (O.U.P. 2006). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Thompson's talk - "You and I" - at the Aristotelian Society on 21 May 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Frank Jackson is a regular visiting professor at Princeton University and holds fractional research positions at The Australian National University and La Trobe University. He is a Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy. His publications include: Perception (Cambridge UP 1977), Conditionals (Blackwell1987), The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, co-authored with David Braddon-Mitchell (Blackwell, 1996), From Metaphysics to Ethics (Oxford UP 1998), Language, Names, and Information (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Jackson's talk - "Leibniz's Law and the Philosophy of Mind" - at the Aristotelian Society on 14 May 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Fiona Leigh is a Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London, where she joined the Department in 2009, after earning her PhD (Monash). Fiona’s area of research specialty is Plato’s later metaphysics, especially Plato’s Sophist, and she has published papers in journals including Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Aperion, and Journal of Philosophy of Education. Currently she is working on a monograph length reading of the Sophist, and is interested in the potentially positive role of art in Plato’s work. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Leigh's talk - "Restless Forms & Changeless Causes" - at the Aristotelian Society on 5 March 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Heather Logue is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on issues in metaphysics and epistemology, and particularly on issues concerning perceptual experience. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Logue's talk - "Why Naïve Realism?" - at the Aristotelian Society on 20 February 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Stacie Friend is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, where she has been teaching since 2007. Her research is at the intersection of aesthetics and philosophy of language and mind, focusing primarily on issues relating to fiction. She has published papers on the nature of fiction, discourse and thought about the non-existent, the metaphysics of fictional characters, emotional responses to fiction and tragedy and the cognitive values of literature. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Friend's talk - "Fiction as a Genre" - at the Aristotelian Society on 6 February 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Dudley Knowles retired in July 2011 as Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He studied for his first degree at Bedford College, University of London, graduating in 1970. After a spell managing a hotel in Glencoe, he studied for a two-year thesis (MLitt) at the University of Glasgow, where he was appointed lecturer in 1973. He remained in Glasgow throughout his academic career. Although he has published on a variety of topics, his main interests have been in political philosophy and its history. He has published three books – Political Philosophy(2001), Hegel and The Philosophy of Right (2002) and Political Obligation (2010) – and edited several more. In retirement, he has continued to work on problems associated with political obligation and is preparing a second edition of Political Philosophy. He anticipates working on the nature and value of political freedom in his dotage. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Knowles' talk - "Good Samaritans & Good Government" - at the Aristotelian Society on 21 November 2011. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Seth Yalcin is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works mostly in the philosophy of language, on descriptive and foundational issues in natural language semantics. Lately his work has borrowed ideas from formal epistemology and from metaethical expressivism to develop accounts of the meaning of epistemic and deontic modals, probability operators, conditionals, attitude verbs, and the language of spatial orientation. He also has research interests in metaphysics, on questions about the nature of modality, information, and randomness. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Yalcin's talk - "Bayesian Expressivism" - at the Aristotelian Society on 9 January 2012. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Daniel Rothschild is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University. His research focuses on natural language semantics and pragmatics. He has written on specific constructions such as conditionals, descriptions, questions, and modals, as well as foundational topics such as presupposition, expressivism, game-theoretic pragmatics, and dynamic semantics. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Rothschild's talk - "Expressing Credences" - at the Aristotelian Society on 5 December 2011. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

David Barnett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to arriving at CU in 2005, he held positions at the University Vermont and Davidson College. In 2008, he was a visiting professor at NYU, where he obtained his PhD in in 2003. Barnett works mainly in philosophy of language and metaphysics, but also has interests in philosophy of mind. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Barnett's talk - "Counterfactual Entailment" - at the Aristotelian Society on 21 November 2011. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Øystein Linnebo is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he arrived in January 2010, having held positions at the Universities of Bristol, Oxford, and Oslo. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2002 and an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oslo in 1995. Linnebo’s research interests lie in philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, early analytic philosophy, as well as parts of philosophy of language and philosophy of science. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Linnebo's talk - "Reference by Abstraction" - at the Aristotelian Society on 7 November 2011. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.