Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on German idealism, including "Kant’s Theory of Form" (1982), "Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness" (1989), "Modernism as a Philosophical Problem" (1991), and "Hegel’s Practical Philosophy" (2008). He has also written on literature ("Henry James and Modern Moral Life" (2000)) and film ("Hollywood Westerns and American Myth" (2010). His most recent books are "Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy" (2010), "Hegel on Self-Consciousness" (2011), and "Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy" (2012), and "Kunst als Philosophie: Hegel und die Philosophie der bildlichen Moderne" (2012). He has been visiting professor at universities in Amsterdam, Jena, Frankfurt, and at the Collège de France. He is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of The American Philosophical Society. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Pippin's talk - 'The Significance of Self-Consciousness in Idealist Theories of Logic' - at the Aristotelian Society on 27 January 2014. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Nicholas Shea is an interdisciplinary philosopher of mind, and of psychology, cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. He came into philosophy via an MA at Birkbeck and PhD at King’s College London. He then worked as a research fellow in Oxford, based in the Faculty of Philosophy and Somerville College and affiliated to the Department of Experimental Psychology, before joining King’s College London in 2012. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Shea's talk - 'Exploited Isomorphism and Structural Representation' - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 January 2014. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Francesco Berto is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Research Leader at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. He has also worked at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA), the Sorbonne-Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the Universities of Padua and Venice (Italy). He has published monographs on metaphysics and the philosophy of logic, and papers in Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, the European Journal of Philosophy, Synthèse, the Review of Symbolic Logic, Philosophia Mathematica, American Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Berto's talk - 'On Conceiving the Inconsistent' - at the Aristotelian Society on 2 December 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Jonathan Lear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and a member of the Committee on Social Thought. He is author most recently of 'Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation', 'A Case for Irony', and 'Freud'. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Lear's talk - 'Integrating the Non-Rational Soul' - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 November 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Tim Mulgan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, and Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Demands of Consequentialism (Oxford University Press 2001), Future People (Oxford University Press 2006), Understanding Utilitarianism (Acumen 2007), and Ethics for a Broken World (Acumen/McGill-Queens University Press 2011). He is currently completing a manuscript for Oxford University Press entitled Purpose in the Universe: the moral and metaphysical case for ananthropocentric purposivism. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Mulgan's talk - 'Ethics for Possible Futures' - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 November 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Robert Kane (Ph. D. Yale University) is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of seven books and more that seventy articles on the philosophy of mind, free will and action, ethics and value theory and philosophy of religion, inclu­ding Free Will and Values (1985), Through the Moral Maze (1994), The Significance of Free Will (Oxford, 1996), A Contem­pora­ry Introduction to Free Will (Oxford, 2005), Four Views of Free Will (co-authored with John Fischer, Derk Pereboom and Manuel Vargas, Black­well, 2007) and Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom (Cambridge, 2010). He is editor of The Ox­ford Handbook of Free Will (2002, 2nd edition, 2011), among other anthologies, and a multiple contri­bu­tor to the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. His lecture series, The Quest for Mea­ning: Va­lues, Ethics and the Modern Experience, appears in The Great Courses on Tape Series of The Teaching Company (Chantilly, Virginia). His book, The Significance of Free Will, was the first annual winner of the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award. His article, “The Modal Ontological Argument” (Mind, 1984), was selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of ten best of 1984. The recipient of fifteen major teaching awards at the University of Texas, including the President’s Excellence Award for teaching in the University’s Honors Program, he was named in 1995 one of the inaugural members of the Universi­ty’s Aca­demy of Distinguished Teachers. He is known internationally for his defense of a libertarian or incompatibilist view of free will (one that is incomaptible with determinism) and for his attempt to reconcile such a view with modern science. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Kane’s talk - 'Acting “of One’s Own Free Will”: New Perspectives on an Ancient Philosophical Problem' - at the Aristotelian Society on 21 October 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

David Papineau was born in Italy and educated in Trinidad, England, and South Africa. He has a BSc in mathematics from the University of Natal and a BA and PhD in philosophy from Cambridge. He has lectured at Reading University, Macquarie University, Birkbeck College London, and Cambridge University. Since 1990 has been Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. He was President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science for 1993-5 and President of the Mind Association for 2009-10. In 2010 he gave the Carnap Lectures in Bochum, Germany, and in 2011 the Frege Lectures in Tartu, Estonia. This year's Presidential Address marks the inauguration of Professor David Papineau (KCL) as the 106th President of the Aristotelian Society. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Broadie's address - 'Sensory Experience and Representational Properties' - at the Aristotelian Society on 7 October 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Oliver Pooley a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford. He works in the philosophy of physics and in metaphysics. Much of his research focuses on the nature of space, time and spacetime. Oliver read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, and took an MASt in Maths at St John’s College, Cambridge, before returning to Oxford to do graduate work in Philosophy. Before taking up his current position at Oriel, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. This podcast is an audio recording of Oliver's talk - "Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time" - at the Aristotelian Society on 3 June 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Clayton Littlejohn is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London. His publications include Justification and the Truth-Connection (Cambridge University Press, 2012), This is Epistemology (Wiley, Forthcoming), and Epistemic Norms, edited with John Turri (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming). His current research concerns the relation between theoretical and practical reason. This podcast is an audio recording of Clayton's talk - "The Russellian Retreat" - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 May 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.

Gary Watson is Provost Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Southern California. Gary's area of specialization is moral, political philosophy and legal philosophy, with a special concentration on the theory of agency and responsibility. More recently, his research investigates the question of whether criminal law has a coherent normative underpinning. This podcast is an audio recording of Gary's talk - "Psychopathy and Prudential Deficits" - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 May 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.