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Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| Is causation a relation? | 01:08:00 | ||
| Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies | 00:49:00 | ||
| Identity, Individuality and Discernibility | 01:01:00 | ||
| Mutual Manifestations and Martin’s Two Triangles | 00:49:00 | ||
| Limitations of Power | 00:59:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions | 00:56:00 | ||
| A Platonic Theory of Truthmaking | 00:47:00 | ||
| A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy | 00:48:00 | ||
| Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity | 00:52:00 | ||
| On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy | 00:40:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| Galen and the Ontology of Powers | 01:04:00 | ||
| There Are (Probably) No Relations | 01:08:00 | ||
| Positionalism Revisited | 01:04:00 | ||
| Relations All The Way Down? | 00:52:00 | ||
| External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency | 00:42:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| Causal Relations | 00:36:00 | ||
| The Metaphysics of Rovelli’s Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | 00:40:00 | ||
| Thinking Structure | 00:57:00 | ||
| Elemental Change in Empedocles | 01:00:00 | ||
| Which Things have Divine Names in Empedocles and Why? | 00:58:00 | ||
| Module: 05 | |||
| Empedoclean Superorganisms | 00:38:00 | ||
| Powers in the cosmic cycle | 00:42:00 | ||
| Empedocles’ Dynamic, Changeless World | 00:47:00 | ||
| Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations – Is there a Core Project? | 00:54:00 | ||
| Religious Debate and Religious Competition in the Age of Marcus Aurelius | 00:52:00 | ||
| Module: 06 | |||
| Marcus on Becoming Whole | 01:01:00 | ||
| Freedom and Indifference in Marcus Aurelius | 00:45:00 | ||
| Structure and Quality | 00:47:00 | ||
| Powers, Functions and Parts: the Stoics (and Others) on the Nature of the Passions | 00:59:00 | ||
| Cartesian Transubstantiation | 00:53:00 | ||
| Module: 07 | |||
| There are Mechanisms, and Then There are Mechanisms | 00:46:00 | ||
| Causes, Powers and Structures in a Factored Process Ontology: Solutions and Lacunae | 01:12:00 | ||
| Freedom and Responsibility Revisited | 01:12:00 | ||
| The Persistence of Animate Organisms | 01:01:00 | ||
| Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles | 00:52:00 | ||
| Module: 08 | |||
| The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect | 00:44:00 | ||
| Common Sense and Metaperception | 00:51:00 | ||
| Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses | 00:47:00 | ||
| Aristotle on Singular Thought | 00:51:00 | ||
| Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others’ Minds | 00:58:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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