Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Craig French is a philosopher of mind and psychology at the University of Nottingham. This podcast is an audio recording his talk - 'Naïve Realism and Diaphaneity' - at the Aristotelian Society on 5 February 2018. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Sarah Sawyer is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. She has published on externalism and singular thought in the philosophy of mind, on proper names and fictional terms in the philosophy of language, on self-knowledge, epistemic warrant and scepticism in epistemology, and on judgement, motivation and reasons in metaethics. She is on the executive committee and council for the Royal Institute of Philosophy, is Publications Officer of the Mind Association Occasional Series and is an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Sawyer's talk - 'The Importance of Concepts' - at the Aristotelian Society on 22 January 2018. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Laurent Jaffro is professor of moral philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne since 2009 and a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2017. He is presently visiting professor at the University of Neuchâtel. He formerly taught philosophy at Blaise Pascal University and at the University of Nanterre. He is editor of Analyse et Philosophie, a series at Vrin. He has published on eigteenth-century British moral philosophy, especially on the third earl of Shaftesbury, and more recently on Thomas Reid. His current project focuses on ‘second-best ethics’, that is, ethics for agents who are chronically subject to weakness and have difficulties to align their conduct with their important values and commitments. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Jaffro's talk - 'Forgiveness and Weak Agency' - at the Aristotelian Society on 27 November 2017. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Elizabeth Ashford is senior lecturer in moral philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She did her MA at UNC Chapel Hill and her BA and DPhil at Oxford University, and was awarded her DPhil in 2002. Her main research interests are in moral and political philosophy. She has recently finished a contribution to UNESCO Volume I, Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (OUP forthcoming), and her current research project is to develop a book on utilitarian and Kantian conceptions of impartiality and of rights. During the academic year 2005-6 she was a Visiting Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the following summer she was an H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Ethics and the Philosophy of Law. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Ashford's talk - 'The Infliction of Severe Poverty as the Perfect Crime' - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 November 2017. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

John Gardner FBA is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, with the title of Professor of Law and Philosophy in the University of Oxford. From 2000 to 2016 he held Oxford’s Chair of Jurisprudence. Before that he was Reader in Legal Philosophy at King’s College London (1996-2000), Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford (1991-6) and Examination (‘Prize’) Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1986-91). He has also held visiting positions at Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, the Australian National University, the University of Auckland, and most recently Cornell University. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Ethics, Law and Philosophy, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Called to the Bar in 1988, he has been a Bencher of the Inner Temple since 2002 (although he does not practice). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013. He teaches and writes on the philosophy of private law, of criminal law, of public law, and of law in general, as well as in nearby areas of moral philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of action. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Gardner's talk - 'Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful' - at the Aristotelian Society on 30 October 2017. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

A research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris since 1979, François Recanati has taught in several major universities around the world, including Berkeley, Harvard, Geneva, and St Andrews. In addition to his CNRS job, he is a ‘directeur d’études’ at EHESS and the Director of Institut Jean-Nicod, a research lab in philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science hosted by the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His publications in the philosophy of language and mind include more than one hundred articles, many edited books, and a dozen monographs, the most recent of which are Mental Files (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Mental Files in Flux (Oxford University Press, 2016). He was the first President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (1990-93), and the Principal Investigator of a research project on Context, Content and Compositionality funded by the European Research Council (Advanced Grant, 2009-2013). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2014 and a Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University (also in 2014). He is the general editor of the Jean-Nicod book series published by MIT Press and of the Context and Content series published by Oxford University Press. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Recanati's talk - 'Fictional, Metafictional, Parafictional' - at the Aristotelian Society on 16 October 2017. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

As the first talk for the 2017-18 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year's Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Helen Beebee (University of Manchester) as the 110th President of the Aristotelian Society. Helen Beebee is Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. She completed her PhD at King’s College London in 1996, and has previously held positions at Edinburgh, St. Andrews, UCL, The Australian National University, and Birmingham. Her research falls mostly within metaphysics, focussing primarily on causality, laws of nature, and freedom of the will. Her publications include a monograph on Hume (Hume on Causation, Routledge 2006) and a textbook, Free Will (Palgrave, 2013), and she is currently Principal Investigator for an AHRC project, ‘The Age of Metaphysical Revolution’, which focusses on the work and correspondence of David Lewis in the context of his role in the history of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. She has served as President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (2015-17), Director of the British Philosophical Association (2007-11), a member of the AHRC Advisory Board (2008-13), and a co-editor of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (current), as well as a member of various executive committees of learned societies and journal editorial boards. She is a Patron of the Athena SWAN Charter. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Beebee's address - 'Philosophical Scepticism' - at the Aristotelian Society on 2 October 2017. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Shamik Dasgupta is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He works primarily in metaphysics and the philosophy of science, with additional research interests in epistemology and ethics. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Dasgupta's talk - 'Normative Non-Naturalism and the Problem of Authority' - at the Aristotelian Society on 19 June 2017. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Daniel Viehoff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University. His research focuses on political, legal, and moral philosophy. He is especially interested in questions of political authority and legitimacy, and in democratic theory. Daniel is currently completing a book manuscript on the special duties we have to obey democratically made decisions. In addition he is doing work on the nature of voting rights and the justification of democratic enfranchisement. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Viehoff's talk - 'Serving the Governed' - at the Aristotelian Society on 5 June 2017. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, where she teaches classes in both Theoretical Philosophy (epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy) and Early Modern Philosophy. She has published widely on Early Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Shaftesbury), Kant, the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism (Cohen, Natorp, Cassirer), as well as on the emotions, self-knowledge, and the problem of epistemic trust. In her talk, she will address a few philosophical problems of which she became aware of during her work for the edited volume Self-Knowledge: A History (OUP 2017). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Renz's talk - 'Self-Knowledge as a Personal Achievement' - at the Aristotelian Society on 22 May 2017. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.