Do Pictures Look Like What They Depict?
Pictures look like what they depict to those who understand them. That is a natural and seemingly unassailable thought. Looking at Mona Lisa, the painting strikes us as looking like a woman with a mys...
15 Jun 49min
Fear, Sallust and Roman Political Theory
Explaining the decline of the Roman Republic, the historian Sallust made a famous claim about the importance of fear, a claim which has influenced writers from Augustine to Schmitt. Drawing on phenome...
15 Jun 48min
Consent and Common Ground
Manon Garcia has recently proposed a model of sexual consent as conversation, which emphasizes collaboration and that interlocutors work together toward a common goal. Independently, though in a simil...
15 Jun 40min
Inextricability and the Brain
In discussions concerning the possibility of AI consciousness, computational functionalism has been the dominant position. This is the view that consciousness is essentially kind of computation and th...
15 Jun 1h 1min
Aristotle on Being Ruled Well
In Politics 3.4 Aristotle distinguishes the virtue of the good citizen from the virtue of the good person by noting that the good citizen should both rule well and be ruled well. I show that ‘being ru...
15 Jun 42min
Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact (co-authored with Robert Morgan, University of Leeds)
It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much of interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their clo...
15 Jun 49min
Why Doesn't Physics Matter More?
There is an explanatory puzzle about the relationship between physics and the rest of science: if the lower-level facts from physics in some way underpin higher-level facts, why don’t the lower-level ...
15 Jun 43min
