Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrew Brennan

Join us for a great chat with Andrew Brennan from Wasaga Beach, Ontario. Andrew is a real estate expert with 15 years of full-time experience. In this episode, he shares how to get tenants to pay more rent using cash for keys and VTBS. Andrew talks about managing almost a thousand units and working in the tricky Ontario rental market. This episode is full of useful tips you don't want to miss!   ================================== Want to grow your real estate investing business and portfolio?  You're in the right place. Welcome to the Property Profits Real Estate Podcast

State Sen. Andrew Brennan's legislation could close the schools in the bottom 5%.

Hear from the booksellers themselves as RJ Julia Bookseller staff Lori Fazio and Andrew Brennan join Roxanne Coady to explore the best books to give as gifts to the readers in your life.   2023 RJ Julia Holiday Book Selection Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out our first ever Difference Maker Podcast where Freshman Counselor Mr. Joe Trainer sits down with two sport standout and Student Council President, Andrew Brennan '24, and talk about ways in which he uses sport as the platform to bring people closer to Christ. “ Produced by WEXPtv Jonathan Wilbur '24.

In this podcast, our restructuring and special situations experts in Ireland, Germany, France, Singapore and the UK discuss trends in the use of pre-packs and restructuring procedures and consider whether pre-packs will have a role to play in the future. The speakers are: Andrew Brennan, Amelie Gorphe, Christopher Kranz, Nigel Pereira and Ben Jones.

Hannah and Andrew Brennan join us to discuss the conclusion of Stranger Things 4! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

After being downsized in 2009, he became a full-time real estate investor and his portfolio grew to over $120 million in no more than 12 years.  His name is Andrew Brennan and he is an award winning real estate investor, who offers hands-off investment opportunities through joint ventures. A real inspiration for many investors out there, Andrew is also the author of  the book “The Ultimate Wealth Strategy: Your Complete Guide to Buying, Fixing, Refinancing, and Renting Real Estate.” In this episode of the Savvy REI Show, Jose and Khadija have the pleasure to sit down with Andrew and talk about his incredible journey to success and some of the secret strategies that helped him get to where he is today. You will find out more about who Andrew is and what a day in his life looks like. You will also discover how Andrew got started in the real estate investment business, and when he bought his first property. He will talk about his transition from single-family properties to multifamily acquisitions as well as about the biggest deal of his career and how he achieved it. He will also share his key secret to finding the best deals and be able to compete with some of the larger players out there. You will learn how Andrew started using the joint venture structure and the strategies he uses to raise capital. In addition, you will learn how Andrew keeps himself motivated and positive and much more. Join Jose, Khadija, and Andrew for an insightful and inspiring discussion filled with invaluable real estate advice. Enjoy! What You'll Learn in this Show: How did Andrew get started in the real estate investment business, and when did he buy his first property How Andrew started using the joint venture structure and the strategies he uses to  raise capital What is the size of Andrew's portfolio today and what are his goals for the future The key secret to finding the best deals and being able to compete with some of the larger players out there How Andrew has kept everything in-house and how this has been beneficial to his company And so much more... Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-brennan-b622711b/?originalSubdomain=ca (Andrew's Linkedin) Andrew's Email: andrew@palmtreecapital.ca https://www.palmtreecapital.ca/ (Palmtreecapital.ca) https://www.palmtreecapital.ca/ (BRENNAN PROPERTY INVESTMENTS)

Glen McGregor, CTV News; Francesco Sorbara, Liberal MP; Scott Aitchison, Conservative MP; Taylor Bachrach, NDP MP; Jim Watson, Ottawa Mayor; Andrew Brennan, CTV News; Annie Bergeron-Oliver, CTV News; Robert Benzie, the Toronto Star; Kevin Vickers, former Sergeant-at-Arm; and James Moore, former Conservative cabinet minister.

Episode Summary In this episode of Get Real Wealthy Season 2, Quentin shares how he was introduced, and how he has used the ‘buy, renovate, refinance and rent', or the BRRR process.  Quentin says that he has used this approach since 2008, from small starter homes to large 40, 50 unit apartment buildings. While the process is the same, the timeline varies a little and the scope of what you are doing with capital expenses can be different. He shares that when they had gone back to 20% down, he was just trying to figure out a way to get a larger yield on his money. He started out in real estate by taking a line of credit out on their principal residence.  He adds that since the start, it's been refinancing and rolling that into new projects, taking on different partners on different projects, etc. while trying to take advantage of having a low-down payment into his projects, get better yield and have cash flow. What he had figured out was that if he bought a property that needed work, he could fix it, refinance it to the after repaired value, and as long as that after repair value cash flowed well, he could continue to hold that asset. The better that he did it, the more he was able to take out of the project and have none of his own money into it. While he had success with this approach and developed great relationships, he says “if I were to go back, I would have done a lot more of the projects that I had passed over because I felt like they were singles or doubles…” It led him to seek out other people who are doing the strategy, and met two great friends, Andrew Brennan, and Jeff Wood. Quentin also wrote the book The Ultimate Wealth Strategy with the latter. He adds “The Ultimate Wealth Strategy, which is on buying fixing refinancing renting real estate back then we called it the BFRR strategy. It was rebranded years later to buy renovate, refinance and rent the BRRR strategy.” In conclusion, he says that when you're able to find in use the strategy of buy renovate, refinance and rent and cashflow positive on an asset in an appreciating market where it is typically considered an appreciation market versus a cash flow market, you can do extremely well that's why he focuses on that strategy. In the upcoming episodes, Quentin will cover different aspects of this approach.  Resources Mentioned http://goo.gl/Kp5UjA (The Ultimate Wealth Strategy: Your Complete Guide to Buying, Fixing, Refinancing, and Renting Real Estate) Important Links https://educationrei.ca (https://EducationREI.ca) https://getrealwealthy.com (https://GetRealWealthy.com) https://durhamrei.ca (https://DurhamREI.ca)

En este episodio exploramos la estrecha y complicada relación entre la moda y el género. La idea de hablar de este tema surgió del auge que hemos visto recientemente de moda que se ofrece como “genderless” —se podría decir “sin género” en español— y decidimos explorar un poco más el tema. Referencias: Alok V. Menon, “Fashion’s Genderless Future | #BoFVOICES 2019”, video de YouTube, grabado el 6 de diciembre de 2019, https://youtu.be/SlAqxFyoOCA. Amanda Wunder, “Innovation and Tradition at the Court of Philip IV of Spain (1621–1665): The Invention of the Golilla and the Guardainfante”, en Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1800, ed. Evelyn Welch (Oxford University Press, 2017), 111–133. Andrew Brennan y Amy Luft, “Why some high school boys in the Montreal area are wearing skirts to school”, CTV News, 9 de octubre de 2020, https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/why-some-high-school-boys-in-the-montreal-area-are-wearing-skirts-to-school-1.5140619. Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (Nueva York: Bloomsbury, 2016). “French Revolutionary Fashion”, Unframed, recuperado el 7 de marzo de 2021, https://unframed.lacma.org/2016/08/03/french-revolutionary-fashion. Joanne Entwistle, El cuerpo y la moda. Una visión sociológica (Barcelona: Paidós, 2002). Judith Butler, El género en disputa. El feminismo y la subversión de la identidad (Barcelona: Paidós, 1990). Karen B. Graubart, “Weaving and the Construction of a Gendered Division of Labor in Early Colonial Peru”, American Indian Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2000): 537–561. Khadija Bilal, “Here’s Why It All Changed: Pink Used to Be a Boy’s Color & Blue For Girls”, The Vintage News, 8 de octubre de 2019, https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/01/pink-blue/#:~:text=Evans%20revealed%20that%20back%20in,more%20feminine%20alternative%20like%20blue. Nihan Akdemir, “Deconstruction of Gender Stereotypes Through Fashion”, European Journal of Social Science Education and Research 5, no. 2 (2018): 259–264. Encuéntranos en: http://culturasdemoda.com/salon-de-moda/ @culturasdemoda | #SalonDeModa Agradecemos a Fair Cardinals (@faircardinals) por la música, a Jhon Jairo Varela Rodríguez por el diseño gráfico y a Maca Rubio por la edición del audio.

In Episode 57, Iain reports on skiing in the ‘new normal' on his trip to Saas Fee and Zermatt in Switzerland - including an exclusive interview with Dave Ryding. Jim and Iain interview Rachael Westbrook from new sustainable ski clothing retailer EcoSki  Jim reveals the challenges set for him by Dave Burrows and we wonder if anything has changed in the world of ski since 1988. SHOW NOTES Jim says goodbye as he moves on from The Ski Podcast. Thanks Jim - it won't be the same without you! Jonny Goldsbrough is "gutted" Ged Ainsworth wonders "What will happen to this essential listening for all snowsports enthusiasts?" (The good news Ged, is that it's going to keep going!) Jim reported on summer skiing in the 'new normal' in Les 2 Alpes in Episode 56  Iain travelled by train to Saas Fee where he reported on skiing in the new normal for In The Snow Magazine He also went to Zermatt, where he went ski touring up Breithorn Resorts in Victoria are closed, but other Australian resorts are open New Zealand resorts are open for kiwis only and have been very busy Rachael Westbrook is the founder of new sustainable ski clothing business EcoSki Jim was set three challenges by friend of the show Dave Burrows Iain met Dave Ryding in Saas Fee where he is training on the glacier. We previously interviewed Dave in Episode 54 Thanks to everyone who has reviewed us on iTunes Ged Ainsworth said: "Just to hear the title music puts me in eager anticipation  of sliding on snow again! " Andrew Brennan was looking at an 1988 ski magazine and realised that much is the same as the podcast now, with Graham Bell, Eddie the Eagle, climate change and people travelling by train all featuring! Amy Moore told us she's never heard of the Magic Pass and asked if we know of any other Alps season passes? We discussed both Snow Pass and the Magic Pass in Episode 35 You can find out more about 'Ski A La Carte' here: www.skialacarte.fr Other big area passes include the Ikon Pass and the Epic Pass   Coming up We're going to have a short break through August, with Episode 58 going live on or around 08 September. Have a great summer and you can hear from us again then!  The Ski Podcast would like to thank Switzerland Tourism for their continued support.

This week, Roxanne Coady and two members of the RJ Julia Booksellers staff, COO Lori Fazio and head book buyer Andrew Brennan, share their picks of the holiday season, including The Boy, the Mold, the Fox, and the Horse, The Martini Cocktail, Jubilee, The Complete Goal Manual, and much more. Listen and find the perfect gift for everyone on your list this holiday season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, #ELOsoFumarTakes is pleased to welcome in Andrew Brennan of Patoro (AG) Cigars. Patrik Martin, a Davidoff veteran of two decades started Patoro in 2001 and launched into the U.S. just four years ago. While growth and production have been stellar, Martin decided he needed something to take it to the next level. Enter in Andrew Brennan, veteran cigar sales executive. He's done it all, taken a cigar company to the next level and built a brand from scratch. We'll talk with Andrew about his plans for Patoro, but we'll also see what its like to launch, build and grow a brand in this industry. Enjoy!

Here at Just the Right Book Podcast we believe that books are the perfect gift for any occasion! So, we enlisted the help of two of our esteemed experts. This year’s gift guide should help you find the perfect book for everyone on your holiday shopping list. Publishing expert Michael Selleck and Andrew Brennan, the head book buyer for RJ Julia join Roxanne in browsing the bookshelves to give us their favorite picks for this holiday shopping season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, Andrew Brennan and I discuss: How losing his job lead to a full time investment career Owning 100 doors (mostly with JV partners) Vendor Takeback Mortgages How to find a JV partner The importance of business relationships and building a team The power of referrals The role of continuing education Applying the buy fix refinance strategy How to attract JV partners Andrew's a very successful real estate investor with a huge portfolio. You can find out more about him at http://www.bpirealestate.ca/

Here at Just the Right Book Podcast we believe that books are the perfect gift for any occasion! So, we enlisted the help of two of our esteemed experts to help you find the perfect book for everyone on your list. Miriam Sontz, the CEO of the legendary Powell’s Books and Andrew Brennan, the head book buyer for RJ Julia join Roxanne in browsing the bookshelves to give us their favorite picks for this holiday season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's Tidbits Episode we hear author and Mad Men creator read a passage from his debut novel, Heather the Totality.  Listen to Roxanne's full interview with Matthew here!  And next week on Just the Right Book Podcast, we hear from Miriam Sontz, the CEO of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon and Andrew Brennan, the head book buyer at RJ Julia who will help you find the perfect book for everyone on your holiday list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Brennan | GWOT Memorial On episode 18 of Longest War: The Post-9/11 Veterans Podcast, we talk with Andrew Brennan, veteran of Afghanistan, army aviator, and executive director of the Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation.     Those who served since the attacks of September 11, 2001 are called post-9/11 veterans.  They number more […]

Andrew Brennan is a former UH-60 Blackhawk pilot and combat veteran.  After departing the Army a little earlier than he’d planned, Andrew ultimately found himself searching for his next calling.  A fateful encounter with a group of Vietnam Veterans on their way to visit the memorial wall in DC sparked the inspiration he needed.  Andrew is now the Executive Director of the Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation. For the past two years they have been working diligently on Capitol Hill to gain bipartisan support for an amendment bill to the Commemorative Works Act of 1986 and today, they have successfully introduced two companion bills in the House and Senate: H.R. 873 and S. 926. These bills can pave the way for a sacred place to honor this generation of warriors and all without any taxpayer funding. GWOTMF exists to ensure that the Veterans of the Global War on Terror experience their future memorial in a timely manner as we recognize that this can be a decade's long process from the time legislation is enacted to the completion of the memorial itself. Check out the action plan below on how you make your voice heard and be a part of the effort to create a memorial that will tell the countless stories of bravery, resilience and sacrifice from the Global War on Terror for generations to come.  TAKE ACTION TODAY Text GWOTMF to 52886 to contact your representatives and senators quickly and easily. Visit (www.gwotmemorialfoundation.org/take-action) and fill out our Take Action form to send a support email to your elected representatives and senators. Tweet, Facebook and call your elected officials in support of H.R. 873 and S. 926.

James Patterson may hold the Guinness world record for the most #1 New York Times best-sellers, but it's his latest passion project that has him buzzing. The New York native came straight to Just the Right Book to tell Roxanne all about the latest books on his children's imprint Jimmy Patterson. Also in this episode, another installment of "What's on the Front Table" with RJ Julia's Head Book Buyer, Andrew Brennan.  Give Please a Chance By Bill O’Reilly and James Patterson Word of Mouse By James Patterson Forever Words: The Unknown Poems By Johnny Cash At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life By Thich Nhat Hahn The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate Discoveries from a Secret World By Peter Wohlleben Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie's The Secret History of Twin Peaks By Mark Frost   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the Veterans Breakfast Club Podcast, listen to the stories and voices of local veterans recorded live on March 24, 2016 at Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Host: Todd DePastino.  Audiography: Kevin Farkas/Bryan Chemini, Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Initiative. Featured Stories and Voices Dan Brownlee (13:43) Andrew Brennan (26:18 […]

Here's What You'll Learn:  How to invest in Canadian real estate using OPM (Other People's Money) How to attract MONEY for your Canadian real estate investments What you need to look for in a potential Joint Venture Parter How to set up your Joint Venture Agreement What "The Ultimate Wealth Strategy" is and how you can utilize it How to make a 100%+ Return on Investment right here in Canada The ins and outs of renovating investment properties Why he doesn't get out of bed for less than a 30% return on investment and how you can set yourself up to do the same And much, much more! Andrew Brennan is a multiple award winning investor, skilled renovator and real estate investor educator. He has offered his experience to others through seminars, coaching, television, radio, public appearances and in real estate magazines. Andrew owns a large real estate portfolio in the Barrie Ontario area. He specializes in working with joint venture partners to offer hands off investment opportunities and is the author of The Ultimate Wealth Strategy: Your Complete Guide to Buying, Fixing, Refinancing, and Renting Real Estate. You can learn more about Andrew and his investment opportunities at www.bpirealestate.ca Go write us a review here and get entered into our contest to win this prize

Here’s What You’ll Learn:  How to invest in Canadian real estate using OPM (Other People’s Money) How to attract MONEY for your Canadian real estate investments What you need to look for in a potential Joint Venture Parter How to set up your Joint Venture Agreement What “The Ultimate Wealth Strategy” is and how you can […] The post Episode 11: Joint Venture Real Estate Investments with Andrew Brennan appeared first on Breakthrough Real Estate Investing Podcast.

One of Descartes' most striking arguments is the found in the treatment of a an example where he watches a piece of wax melt as he brings it close to a fire. By reflecting on how the same wax undergoes many changes, in colour, smell, shape, even from solid to liquid, Descartes concludes that it is through the mind, or intellect, not the senses, that we reach the most reliable knowledge of the world. Beliefs derived from the senses all involve inferences and the possibility of making mistakes in reasoning. By systematic use of reason, he hopes, we can start to build a scientific theory of the world that is reliable, and incidentally the search for some basic truth brings him back to the realization that mind is better known than, and separate from, body. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

An introduction to the life and work of Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650). In his collection of essays, called "Meditations", Descartes outlines a modern, rationalist philosophy, one that rejects the help of tradition and earlier theories in order to build a new system of knowledge and science based on only on certainty. Using only the power of reason, Descartes claims, it is possible to establish the sure foundation of all knowledge. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

An introduction to the life and work of Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650). In his collection of essays, called "Meditations", Descartes outlines a modern, rationalist philosophy, one that rejects the help of tradition and earlier theories in order to build a new system of knowledge and science based on only on certainty. Using only the power of reason, Descartes claims, it is possible to establish the sure foundation of all knowledge. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

The foundation of all science and other knowledge is found, according to Descartes, in the indubitable belief that I exist (the cogito claim). As soon as I have the thought, "I am thinking, so I exist", I realize this thought cannot be doubted: simply to have it, is to see that it is true. The problem is that in the first "Meditation", Descartes had introduced the possibility that even logic and mathematics is dubitable if we imagined our minds might be subject to manipulation by an evil demon or mad scientist. So why should the cogito be excepted? Has Descartes' commitment to hyperbolic doubt undermined his own project? Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

The foundation of all science and other knowledge is found, according to Descartes, in the indubitable belief that I exist (the cogito claim). As soon as I have the thought, "I am thinking, so I exist", I realize this thought cannot be doubted: simply to have it, is to see that it is true. The problem is that in the first "Meditation", Descartes had introduced the possibility that even logic and mathematics is dubitable if we imagined our minds might be subject to manipulation by an evil demon or mad scientist. So why should the cogito be excepted? Has Descartes' commitment to hyperbolic doubt undermined his own project? Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

One of Descartes' most striking arguments is the found in the treatment of a an example where he watches a piece of wax melt as he brings it close to a fire. By reflecting on how the same wax undergoes many changes, in colour, smell, shape, even from solid to liquid, Descartes concludes that it is through the mind, or intellect, not the senses, that we reach the most reliable knowledge of the world. Beliefs derived from the senses all involve inferences and the possibility of making mistakes in reasoning. By systematic use of reason, he hopes, we can start to build a scientific theory of the world that is reliable, and incidentally the search for some basic truth brings him back to the realization that mind is better known than, and separate from, body. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

By the end of the Meditation 2, Descartes is caught in a dilemma. On the one hand, everything can be doubted and so there is no prospect for secure and certain knowledge of the world. On the other hand, pure reasoning shows that he is undoubtedly a thinking thing, and this fact looks like a foundation from which other beliefs can be built. In order to proceed from the subjective certainty of the cogito, Descartes needs some basis on which to say that our memories (of previous investigations, deductions and insights) can generally be trusted. For this task, he introduces the idea of God, a being who has made the natural world and us, and has designed us so that we work well in the world. The lecture argues that nature, through evolution and natural selection, can substitute for God in scientific approach to solving Descartes' problem. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

By the end of the Meditation 2, Descartes is caught in a dilemma. On the one hand, everything can be doubted and so there is no prospect for secure and certain knowledge of the world. On the other hand, pure reasoning shows that he is undoubtedly a thinking thing, and this fact looks like a foundation from which other beliefs can be built. In order to proceed from the subjective certainty of the cogito, Descartes needs some basis on which to say that our memories (of previous investigations, deductions and insights) can generally be trusted. For this task, he introduces the idea of God, a being who has made the natural world and us, and has designed us so that we work well in the world. The lecture argues that nature, through evolution and natural selection, can substitute for God in scientific approach to solving Descartes' problem. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

It might seem that Descartes' appeal to God in Meditation 4 as a guarantee that for the most part our memories can be trusted is not well-founded. By looking at the question of last-minute creation, a solution is proposed. Can we prove that we and our memories did not all come into existence just five minutes ago, or – as creationists have suggested – that the world and all its fossils did not just come into existence in 4004 BCE? Last-minute creation fantasies raise scenarios that are merely logically possible, but are not compatible with our best theories in geology, biology and other sciences. Descartes' appeal to God faces a different challenge, and objections to it are removed once the logic of his argument is made clear. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

It might seem that Descartes' appeal to God in Meditation 4 as a guarantee that for the most part our memories can be trusted is not well-founded. By looking at the question of last-minute creation, a solution is proposed. Can we prove that we and our memories did not all come into existence just five minutes ago, or – as creationists have suggested – that the world and all its fossils did not just come into existence in 4004 BCE? Last-minute creation fantasies raise scenarios that are merely logically possible, but are not compatible with our best theories in geology, biology and other sciences. Descartes' appeal to God faces a different challenge, and objections to it are removed once the logic of his argument is made clear. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

Descartes' dualism of mind and body is a lasting legacy. Nowadays many people still believe the body is less well-known than the mind and that there is a mystery about how the mental and the physical can interact. His correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia prompted him, late in life, to explore the union of mind and body in his last work, The Passions of the Soul. In retrospect, Descartes seems to have had two views of how mind and body might be related, one that the mind interacts with the body via a gland in the brain, the other that mind is spread all the way through body and intermingled with it. While neither view is satisfactory, it is still not clear nowadays how best to think about the relation of the mental to the physical. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

Descartes' dualism of mind and body is a lasting legacy. Nowadays many people still believe the body is less well-known than the mind and that there is a mystery about how the mental and the physical can interact. His correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia prompted him, late in life, to explore the union of mind and body in his last work, The Passions of the Soul. In retrospect, Descartes seems to have had two views of how mind and body might be related, one that the mind interacts with the body via a gland in the brain, the other that mind is spread all the way through body and intermingled with it. While neither view is satisfactory, it is still not clear nowadays how best to think about the relation of the mental to the physical. Copyright 2014 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

What makes me the person I am? Two popular answers are that my identity depends on the continuing existence of my body, or that my identity depends on some psychological continuity, such as the functioning and extent of memory. The seventeenth-century English philosopher, John Locke, argued that conditions of identity are relative to the kind or sort of thing we are thinking about. Living things are not just masses of matter but organized assemblages of parts that support growth, nutrition and sometimes self-repair. We explain why Locke thought that A could be the same human being as B, but not the same person, and discuss Locke's idea that memory can be an adequate condition for personal identity. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Does it make sense to think we can duplicate persons, so that people can divide just like cells? Since splitting means dividing one person into two people, the obvious answer seems to be that persons are unable to undergo fission. By looking at the old example of the Ship of Theseus we find that it is possible to think of artefacts dividing, in that one ship can become two. More precisely, a set of time-slices that constitute one ship can be shared by two different future sets of time slices that constitute two different ships. Exactly the same can be said of person fission of the sort that could happen using Star-Trek-style teleporter technology. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Does it make sense to think we can duplicate persons, so that people can divide just like cells? Since splitting means dividing one person into two people, the obvious answer seems to be that persons are unable to undergo fission. By looking at the old example of the Ship of Theseus we find that it is possible to think of artefacts dividing, in that one ship can become two. More precisely, a set of time-slices that constitute one ship can be shared by two different future sets of time slices that constitute two different ships. Exactly the same can be said of person fission of the sort that could happen using Star-Trek-style teleporter technology. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

What makes me the person I am? Two popular answers are that my identity depends on the continuing existence of my body, or that my identity depends on some psychological continuity, such as the functioning and extent of memory. The seventeenth-century English philosopher, John Locke, argued that conditions of identity are relative to the kind or sort of thing we are thinking about. Living things are not just masses of matter but organized assemblages of parts that support growth, nutrition and sometimes self-repair. We explain why Locke thought that A could be the same human being as B, but not the same person, and discuss Locke's idea that memory can be an adequate condition for personal identity. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Is time travel possible? An introduction to the philosophy – not the science – of time travel, asking whether time travel can be described without contradictions. To answer the question we look at the movie Back to the Future, and the UK TV series, Doctor Who. The Grandfather paradox is also discussed: could you go back in time and kill your grandfather even before he met your grandmother? Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Is time travel possible? An introduction to the philosophy – not the science – of time travel, asking whether time travel can be described without contradictions. To answer the question we look at the movie Back to the Future, and the UK TV series, Doctor Who. The Grandfather paradox is also discussed: could you go back in time and kill your grandfather even before he met your grandmother? Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Can the past be changed? It looks as if time travellers could wreak havoc by interfering with things that have already happened. If what is past cannot be changed, does this commit us to determinism? We ask what would happen in the scenario of the Terminator movies if the Terminator really erased John Connor from the history of the fictional world in which the movie is set. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Can the past be changed? It looks as if time travellers could wreak havoc by interfering with things that have already happened. If what is past cannot be changed, does this commit us to determinism? We ask what would happen in the scenario of the Terminator movies if the Terminator really erased John Connor from the history of the fictional world in which the movie is set. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

This lecture considers the vexed question of what is philosophy and some of the most common answers to this question. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

This lecture considers the vexed question of what is philosophy and some of the most common answers to this question. Copyright 2013 Jack Reynolds / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.