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148From Fleck's denkstil to Kuhn's paradigm: Conceptual schemes and incommensurabilityInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17 (1). 2003.This article argues that the limited influence of Ludwik Fleck's ideas on philosophy of science is due not only to their indirect dissemination by way of Thomas Kuhn, but also to an incommensurability between the standard conceptual framework of history and philosophy of science and Fleck's own more integratedly historico-social and praxis-oriented approach to understanding the evolution of scientific discovery. What Kuhn named "paradigm" offers a periphrastic rendering or oblique translation of…Read more
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37Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Scientific PowerInternational Studies in Philosophy 22 (2): 79-92. 1990.
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15Le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche et le style parodique. À propos de l'hyperanthropos de Lucien et du surhomme de NietzscheDiogène 232 (4): 81-104. 2012.It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche’s Übermensch derives from Lucian of Samosata’s hyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian’s Kataplous – literally, “sailing into port” – referring to the soul’s journey, ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes, into the afterlife. The Kataplous he tyrannos, usually translated Downward Journey or The Tyrant, is a Menippean satire telling the tale of t…Read more
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9On the idea of continental and postmodern perspectives in the philosophy of scienceIn Babette E. Babich, Debra B. Bergoffen & Simon Glynn (eds.), Continental and postmodern perspectives in the philosophy of science, Avebury. pp. 1--7. 1995.
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53Continental and postmodern perspectives in the philosophy of science (edited book)Avebury. 1995.Examines the implications of recent continental epistemology challenging the relationship between traditional, analytic, continental and postmodern understandings of science, showing that the challenging circumstances of the scientific project are transforming the role and meaning of science in the modern/postmodern world.
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12Vers une éthique de l’assistanceSymposium 20 (1): 194-212. 2016.Si Nietzsche, se référant à la philosophie morale de Kant, put invoquer ceux « qui promettent sans en avoir les moyens » et dérider le « menteur qui trahit sa parole dans le moment même où il l’a sur les lèvres », un examen de l’éthique de l’assistance de Heidegger souligne, de son côté, que nous nous trouvons toujours déjà dans l’assistance envers les autres, même si ce n’est que de manière négative ou défectueuse. En parcourant le chemin qui nous mène vers l’éthique de l’assistance chez Heideg…Read more
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191Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Parodic Style: On Lucian’s Hyperanthropos and Nietzsche’s ÜbermenschDiogenes 58 (4): 58-74. 2011.It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche’sÜbermenschderives from Lucian of Samosata’shyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian’sKataplous– literally, “sailing into port” – referring to the soul’s journey (ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes) into the afterlife. TheKataplous he tyrannos, usually translatedDownward Journey or The Tyrant, is a Menippean satire of the “overman” who is imag…Read more
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2111‘A Philosophical Shock’: Foucault’s Reading of Heidegger and NietzscheIn Carlos G. Prado (ed.), Foucault's Legacy, Continuum. 2009.
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38Heidegger's Jews: Inclusion/Exclusion and Heidegger's Anti-SemitismJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 47 (2): 133-156. 2016.
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787On Mitchell and on Glazebrook on βίοςIn Pol Vandevelde (ed.), Supplement to the 2011 Proceedings of the Heidegger Circle, . 2011.Commentary on Andrew Mitchell and Patricia Glazebrook on plants and agriculture in the context of Heidegger's own reflections on botany and technology in which I discuss, bees, cell phone radiation, the relatively complex but fairly obvious sociological dynamics of science and powerful commercial interests (capital), and mantid copulation.
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Greek Bronze: On Sculptures, Mirrors, and LifeYearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 1-30. 2006.
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42Nietzsche's Chaos Sive Natura: Evening Gold and the Dancing StarRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 57 (2): 225-245. 2001.Nietzsche's creative and fundamental account of chaos in both its cosmic, universal as well as its humane context, recalls the ancient Greek meaning of chaos rather than its modern, disordered, decadent significance. In this generatively primordial sense, chaos corresponds not to the watery nothingness of Semitic myth or modern, scientific entropy but creative, uncountenancedly abundant potency. And in such an archaic sense, Nietzsche's chaos is a word for both nature and art. Nietzsche's creati…Read more
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74Towards a Critical Philosophy of Science: Continental Beginnings and Bugbears, Whigs, and WaterbearsInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (4): 343-391. 2010.Continental philosophy of science has developed alongside mainstream analytic philosophy of science. But where continental approaches are inclusive, analytic philosophies of science are not–excluding not merely Nietzsche’s philosophy of science but Gödel’s philosophy of physics. As a radicalization of Kant, Nietzsche’s critical philosophy of science puts science in question and Nietzsche’s critique of the methodological foundations of classical philology bears on science, particularly evolution …Read more
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89Calling Science Pseudoscience: Fleck's Archaeologies of Fact and Latour's ‘Biography of an Investigation’ in AIDS Denialism and HomeopathyInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (1): 1-39. 2015.Fleck's Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact foregrounds claims traditionally excluded from reception, often regarded as opposed to fact, scientific claims that are increasingly seldom discussed in connection with philosophy of science save as examples of pseudoscience. I am especially concerned with scientists who question the epidemiological link between HIV and AIDS and who are thereby discounted—no matter their credentials, no matter the cogency of their arguments, no matter the sobr…Read more
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255Nietzsche and Eros between the devil and God's deep blue sea: The problem of the artist as actor-jew-womanContinental Philosophy Review 33 (2): 159-188. 2000.In a single aphorism in The Gay Science, Nietzsche arrays “The Problem of the Artist” in a reticulated constellation. Addressing every member of the excluded grouping of disenfranchised “others,” Nietzsche turns to the destitution of a god of love keyed to the selfturning absorption of the human heart. His ultimate and irrecusably tragic project to restore the innocence of becoming requires the affirmation of the problem of suffering as the task of learning how to love. Nietzsche sees the eros o…Read more
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6For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one of the most important influences in contemporary philosophy. In this book, essays by internationally noted scholars, ranging from David B. Allison to Slavoj Zizek, honour the interpretive contributions of William J. Richardson's pathbreaking Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought. The essays move from traditional phenomenology to the idea of essential (another) thinking, the questi…Read more
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15Between Hölderlin and Heidegger: Nietzsche's transfiguration of philosophyNietzsche Studien 29 (1): 267-301. 2000.
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82Heidegger on technology and Gelassenheit: wabi-sabi and the art of VerfallenheitAI and Society 32 (2): 157-166. 2017.
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35Nietzsche—Ancient Philology, Ancient Philosophy, and the Classical TraditionNew Nietzsche Studies 4 (1-2): 171-191. 2000.
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14Genius Loci - Lo spazio scolpito e il mistero di Nietzsche, Lou e il Sacro MonteRivista di Estetica 53 235-262. 2013.This essay explores Nietzsche’s visit to Orta, including his visit with Lou von Salomé to Sacro Monte. Yet there are two Sacri Monti, one at Orta and one, some distance away, at Varallo. Lou reports that Nietzsche described this visit as the «most charming dream» [entzückendsten Traum] of his life and scholars have concluded that this dream refers to Nietzsche’s erotic moment – just a kiss – with Lou. This essay argues for a hermeneutico-phenomenological consideration of the locus itself: featur…Read more
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