Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Hasok Chang is the Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Previously he taught for 15 years at University College London, after receiving his PhD in Philosophy at Stanford University following an undergraduate degree at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism (Springer, 2012), winner of the 2013 Fernando Gil International Prize, and Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress (Oxford University Press, 2004), joint winner of the 2006 Lakatos Award. He is also co-editor (with Catherine Jackson) of An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War (British Society for the History of Science, 2007), a collection of original work by undergraduate students at University College London. He is a co-founder of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), and the Committee for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. He has recently been the President of the British Society for this History of Science. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Chang's talk - 'Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality' - at the Aristotelian Society on 9 January 2017. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

James Studd is the University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. In addition to the philosophy of mathematics, he works on the philosophy of logic, with occasional forays into the philosophy of language and metaphysics. He is currently writing a book about absolute generality (forthcoming with OUP). This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Studd's talk - 'Generality, Extensibility, and Paradox' - at the Aristotelian Society on 28 November 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Beth Lord is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She works on history of philosophy in the continental tradition, with a particular focus on Spinoza. Currently she is researching the concept of equality in Spinoza’s texts from its geometrical origins to its metaphysical and political uses. She recently led a three-year AHRC-funded research project that investigated the relevance of Spinoza’s concepts of ratio and equality to housing design. She is co-author (with Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture) of a short, open-access film on Spinoza and the UK housing crisis, Equal by Design, and editor of the forthcoming collection Spinoza’s Philosophy of Ratio. Her earlier books include Spinoza’s Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, and Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze. She has been at Aberdeen since 2013; prior to that she worked at the University of Dundee (2004-12), and received her PhD from the University of Warwick in 2004. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Lord's talk - 'Disagreement in the Political Philosophy of Spinoza and Rancière' - at the Aristotelian Society on 14 November 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Elizabeth Cripps is a senior lecturer in political theory at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World (Oxford, 2013), which defends a 'weakly collective' moral duty to act on climate change and explores the implications for individual duties. She currently works on population, climate change and justice, and on the intersect between climate duties and parents' duties to their children. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Cripps' talk - 'Justice, Integrity and Moral Community' - at the Aristotelian Society on 31 October 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Christopher Daly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He has published in metaphysics, methodology and philosophy of language. He is a co-editor of the journal Analysis. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Daly's talk - 'Persistent Philosophical Disagreement' - at the Aristotelian Society on 17 October 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

As the first talk for the 2016/17 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year's Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Tim Crane (University of Cambridge) as the 109th President of the Aristotelian Society. The Society's President is elected on the basis of lifelong, exemplary work in philosophy. Please visit our Council page for further information regarding the Society's past presidents. The 109th Presidential Address will be chaired by Susan James (Birkbeck) - 108th President of the Aristotelian Society. Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Before coming to Cambridge in 2009 he taught at UCL for twenty years and founded the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London in 2005. He is the philosophy editor of the TLS and general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Crane is the author of a number of books, including The Mechanical Mind (1995, 3rd edition 2016), Elements of Mind (2001), The Objects of Thought (2013) and Aspects of Psychologism (2014). He has defended a conception of the mind which rejects both scientistic reductionism and the idea that philosophy of mind should be insulated from science, and he has argued that intentionality — the mind’s direction on its objects, or its representational power — is the essential feature of the mind. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Crane's address - 'The Unity of Unconsciousness' - at the Aristotelian Society on 3 October 2016. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Dorothea Debus teaches Philosophy at the University of York. Her main areas of research lie in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology. She has written on philosophical questions relating to the phenomena of memory, the imagination, attention, and the emotions, and more recently she has started work on a new research project which investigates our active involvement with our own mental lives. The paper presented here will offer some of this new material for discussion. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Debus's talk - 'Shaping Our Mental Lives' - at the Aristotelian Society on 20 June 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Hilary Greaves is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include foundational issues in consequentialism ('global' and 'two-level' forms of consequentialism), aggregation, moral psychology and selective debunking arguments, population ethics, the interface between ethics and economics, the analogies between ethics and epistemology, and formal epistemology. She currently directs a three-year project on population ethics, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Greaves's talk - 'Cluelessness' - at the Aristotelian Society on 6 June 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Dominic Scott is a Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He has worked in many areas of ancient Greek philosophy, especially in epistemology and ethics. He is the author of Recollection and Experience (CUP 1995) and Plato's Meno (CUP 2006). His most recent book is Levels of Argument: a Comparative Study of Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (OUP 2015). He has also recently edited The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter (OUP 2015) and co-authored The Humanities World Report 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Scott's talk - 'From Painters to Poets: Method in Plato, Republic X' - at the Aristotelian Society on 23 May 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Peter Poellner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He has published on topics in the philosophy of value, the philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy – in the latter area, especially on Nietzsche, Husserl and Sartre. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Poellner's talk - 'Phenomenology and the Perceptual Model of Emotion' - at the Aristotelian Society on 9 May 2016. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.