Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

As the first talk for the 2015/16 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year's Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London) as the 108th 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 108th Presidential Address will be chaired by Adrian Moore (Oxford) - 107th President of the Aristotelian Society. Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. Among her books are Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1997); Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise (Oxford University Press, 2012). She is currently working on a collection of essays, Spinoza on Learning to Live Together. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor James' address - 'Freedom and Nature: A Spinozist Invitation' - at the Aristotelian Society on 5 October 2015. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Susanna Siegel is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She is author of The Contents of Visual Experience (Oxford University Press, 2010), and numerous articles in the philosophy of perception. Recent papers discuss the varieties of influences on perceptual experiences from cognition, affect, and learning, their impact on the epistemic role of perception, and the nature of belief. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Siegel's talk - 'Epistemic Charge' - at the Aristotelian Society on 15 June 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Giles Pearson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He has been at Bristol since 2007. Prior to that he was a lecturer at Birkbeck College, London (2006-2007), and a research fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge (2003-6). His research is in ancient philosophy and metaethics, with particular interests in Aristotle’s moral and philosophical psychology, and philosophical accounts of motivation. He is the author of Aristotle on Desire (2012, Cambridge University Press) and he co-edited (with M. Pakaluk) Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle (2011, Oxford University Press). He is currently working on his second monograph, on contemporary metaethics, concerning the role of desire in motivation. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Pearson's talk - 'What are Sources of Motivation?' - at the Aristotelian Society on 1 June 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Sacha Golob is a Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London; prior to that he was a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. His research focuses on the intersection between the history of philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind, action and ethics. He is the author of Heidegger on Concepts, Freedom and Normativity (CUP 2014), and the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy (CUP 2016). This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Golob's talk - 'Self-Knowledge, Agency and Self-Authorship' - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 May 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Simon Prosser is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His main research interests are in the philosophy of mind and in metaphysics. He has published articles on temporal experience, intentionalism about conscious experience, indexical thoughts, the metaphysics of time, and emergent properties. He is currently adding the finishing touches to a monograph on the experience of time and change, and also writing a couple of papers on the individuation of concepts. In the future he plans to write more about the nature of conscious experience. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Prosser's talk - 'Why are Indexicals Essential?' - at the Aristotelian Society on 11 May 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Christoph Hoerl is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research is mainly in the philosophy of mind, with a particular interest in philosophical questions about the nature of temporal experience, memory, and our ability to think about time. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Hoerl's talk - 'Writing on the Page of Consciousness' - at the Aristotelian Society on 27 April 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Matthew Chrisman is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research has focused on ethical theory, the philosophy of language, and epistemology. He has published widely in these areas, including articles in the Journal of Philosophy, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophers’ Imprint and Philosophical Studies. Recent papers have been on the meaning of moral terms, the semantics of deontic modals, and the nature of epistemic normativity. He is one of the lead authors of Philosophy for Everyone (Routledge 2014). His research monograph The Meaning of ‘Ought': Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics will be published with Oxford University Press. He is co-editing a collection on Deontic Modality for Oxford University Press. His textbook What Is This Thing Called Metaethics? is under contract at Routledge. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Chrisman's talk - 'Knowing What One Ought To Do' - at the Aristotelian Society on 9 March 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Louise Richardson is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Richardson's talk - 'Perceptual Activity and Bodily Awareness' - at the Aristotelian Society on 23 February 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Sophie Gibb is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. Her research is in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, with particular interests in the mental causation debate, the categories of being, and causation, laws and powers. Recent papers are on the ontology of the mental causation debate, the subset account of property realization, and tropes and laws. She is leader of the philosophy of mind work group within the Durham Emergence Project, which is an interdisciplinary research initiative involving collaboration between philosophers and physicists, made possible through the support of the John Templeton Foundation. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Gibb's talk - 'Defending Dualism' - at the Aristotelian Society on 9 February 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Dominic Gregory teaches Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He has written on the logic, epistemology, and metaphysics of modality, but his work has lately focused upon various questions concerning distinctively sensory representations such as pictures and sensory mental images. His recent book "Showing, Sensing, and Seeming" (OUP 2013) develops a general account of the nature of the contents belonging to those representations: the book contains detailed philosophical examinations of sensory mental imagery and pictorial representation, and of memory, photography, and analogous nonvisual phenomena. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Gregory's talk - 'Visual Content, Expectations, and the Outside World' - at the Aristotelian Society on 26 January 2015. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.