Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Colleen Murphy is a Professor in the College of Law with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. Previously she was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and a Visiting Professor at the 4.TU Centre for Ethics in the Netherlands. She works on topics in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law, with a particular focus on transitional justice and the ethical dimensions of risk. She is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which received the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010); as well as more than 50 articles and book chapters. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Science and Engineering Ethics. Professor Murphy is a past member of the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) Committee on the Status of Women and current member of the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Murphy's talk - 'On Principled Compromises ' - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 November 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Glen Pettigrove is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, occupying the Chair in Moral Philosophy previously held by Glasgow’s favourite son, Adam Smith. Before joining the Glasgow department Glen was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. He specializes in moral psychology, normative ethics, and early modern philosophy. He has a particular interest in the role of the emotions in our personal and collective lives and has written on anger, cheerfulness, forgiveness, guilt, love, and shame. He is the author of Forgiveness and Love (Oxford University Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles on virtue, religious ethics, and group attitudes. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Pettigrove's talk - 'Ambition, Love, and Happiness' - at the Aristotelian Society on 21 October 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

As the first talk for the 2019-20 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year’s Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Helen Steward (University of Leeds) as the 112th President of the Aristotelian Society. The Society’s President is elected on the basis of lifelong, exemplary work in philosophy. Helen Steward is Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Action at the University of Leeds. She received her D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 1992. Before moving to Leeds in 2007, she was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford for 14 years. Her research interests lie mainly in the philosophy of action and free will, the philosophy of mind, and the metaphysical and ontological issues which bear on these areas (e.g. causation, supervenience, levels of explanation, the event/state distinction, the concepts of process and power). She has also worked on the category of animality and on understandings of the human being which take seriously our membership of the animal kingdom, and related biological and evolutionary perspectives on ourselves. She is the author of The Ontology of Mind (Oxford: OUP, 1997) and A Metaphysics for Freedom (Oxford: OUP, 2012), as well as many papers on free will, agency, mental causation and ontology of mind. The 112th Presidential Address was chaired by Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) – 111th President of the Aristotelian Society. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Steward's address - 'Free Will and External Reality: Two Scepticisms Compared' - at the Aristotelian Society on 7 October 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Kathleen Stock is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. She works in philosophy of imagination and fiction, and has a growing interest in issues of gender, sex, and sexual orientation. She has also published on the nature of sexual and other kinds of objectification. Her most recent major publication is Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination (Oxford 2017). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Stock's talk - 'What is Sexual Orientation?' - at the Aristotelian Society on 3 June 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Thomas Sattig is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. He completed his D.Phil. at Oxford University, where he was also a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Junior Research Fellow. Subsequently, he held positions as Assistant Professor at Tulane University and at Washington University in St. Louis. Sattig works primarily in metaphysics. He focuses on issues concerning material objects, persons, time, modality, mereology, and indeterminacy, often following metaphysics to regions where it meets philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. His publications include the monographs The Language and Reality of Time (OUP, 2006) and The Double Lives of Objects: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World (OUP, 2015). He currently works on the nature and our experience of the flow of time. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Sattig's talk - 'The Flow of Time in Experience' - at the Aristotelian Society on 20 May 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Christian List is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. He works at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and political science, with a particular focus on individual and collective decision-making and the nature of intentional agency. Recently, a growing part of his work has addressed metaphysical questions, e.g., about free will, causation, probability, and the relationship between “micro” and “macro” levels of analysis in the human and social sciences. In 2011, he published Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents (co-authored with Philip Pettit). His latest book, titled Why Free Will is Real, is due to appear in 2019. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor List's talk - 'What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response' - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 May 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Cheshire Calhoun is CLAS Trustee Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and chair of the American Philosophical Association’s board of officers. Her work spans the philosophical subdisciplines of normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, feminist philosophy, and gay and lesbian philosophy. She has recently published a collection of previously published essays under the title Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting it Right and Practicing Morality with Others (OUP 2016), and a new book titled Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living (OUP 2018). She is series editor for Oxford University Press’s Studies in Feminist Philosophy. Her essay “Geographies of Meaningful Living” won the 2015 Journal of Applied Philosophy essay prize; and her essays on forgiveness and civility were included in the Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best philosophy essays published in a year (1992, 2000). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Calhoun's talk - 'Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility' - at the Aristotelian Society on 29 April 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Stephen Mulhall is Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. His research interests include Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Sartre; moral philosophy; the relationship between philosophy, theology and religion; and the relationship between philosophy and the arts (especially film and literature). His most recent publications include: ‘The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy’ (OUP, 2015), and ‘On Film: 3rd Edition’ (Routledge, 2016). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Mulhall's talk - ' Heidegger’s Fountain: Ecstasis, Mimesis and Engrossment in the Origin of the Work of Art' - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 March 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Sophia Connell is lecturer in ancient philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. She did her MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge. She is a former Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and taught philosophy in Cambridge for many years, receiving the Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence in 2016. Her main research interests are ancient Greek philosophy and the history of analytic philosophy. She has published Aristotle on Female Animals: Study of the Generation of Animals (Cambridge University Press) in 2016 and is working on a philosophical commentary of key portions of the same Aristotelian treatise. Her current research focuses on the relationship between Aristotle’s natural and political sciences, in particular how our biology impacts on morality and ethics. She is also busy editing The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology (2019) and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Special Issue on 20th Century Women Philosophers. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Connell's talk - 'Care and Parenting in Aristotelian Ethics' - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 March 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Nicholas K. Jones’ research interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics with the philosophy of logic and language, especially anything connected with objecthood. He is currently working on the metaphysics of higher-order quantification and applications of higher-order resources within metaphysics. He arrived at the University of Birmingham as a Birmingham Research Fellow in 2013, and has been Senior Lecturer there since 2017. Before joining Birmingham, he was a Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford, and Jacobsen Research Fellow at KCL and the Institute of Philosophy, following a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London. He has been a Visiting Scholar at MIT, a Visiting Fellow on the ConceptLab project at the University of Oslo, and received the Sanders Prize for Metaphysics in 2012. He is from North Derbyshire. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Jones' talk - 'Propositions and Cognitive Relations' - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 February 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.