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10Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Considered together, Butler and Whitehead draw from a wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of becoming, of syntactical violence, and creative opportunities of limitation. The contributors of this volume offer a unique contribution to and for the humanities in the struggles of politics, economy, ecology, and the arts
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18Twentieth-century French philosophy and the radicalization of KantBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-6. forthcoming..
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2Notes on ContributorsIn Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell & Joseph Petek (eds.), Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 227-230. 2017.
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41. Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of CapitalismIn Nathan J. Jun & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Deleuze and Ethics, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 5-20. 2011.
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7VI. The Social SelfIn The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 144-163. 1998.
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4I. The Linguistic and Perceptual ModelsIn The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 17-48. 1998.
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142. Nomad Thought: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Adventure of ThinkingIn Roland Faber & Andrea M. Stephenson (eds.), Secrets of becoming: negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler, Fordham University Press. pp. 70-81. 2011.
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12An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics: Truth, Relevance and MetaphysicsEdinburgh University Press. 2022.Introduction -- 1. Problem of the New -- 2. Problem of Relations -- 3. Problem of Emergence -- 4. Problem of One and Many -- 5. Plato and the Third Man Argument -- 6. Bradley and the Problem of Relations -- 7. Moore, Russell and the Birth of Analytic Philosophy -- 8. Russell and Deleuze on Leibniz -- 9. On Problematic Fields -- 10. Kant and Problematic Ideas -- 11. Armstrong and Lewis on the Problem of One and Many -- 12. Determinables and Determinates -- 13. The Limits of Representational Thoug…Read more
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28 A Dog’s Life: Thought, Symbols and ConceptsIn Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell & Joseph Petek (eds.), Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 145-169. 2017.
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2IndexIn Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell & Joseph Petek (eds.), Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 231-234. 2017.
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Hume and continental philosophyIn Angela Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.
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12Towards a Critical Existentialism: Truth, Relevance and PoliticsEdinburgh University Press. 2022.Introduction -- Making sense of life -- communication problems -- Making sense of politics -- Stop making sense -- Towards a critical existentialism.
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6Tamed Affect: A Deleuzian Theory of Moral SentimentsIn Casey Ford, Suzanne McCullagh & Karen Houle (eds.), Minor ethics: Deleuzian variations, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 82-104. 2021.
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10Deleuze and History (edited book)Deleuze Connections. 2009.Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze's work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems.The essays in this volume cover all aspects of Deleuze's philosophy and its relat…Read more
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24Making Sense of Problems: Toward a Deleuzo-Humean Critical TheoryJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (2): 244-253. 2022.ABSTRACT In this article I extend Gilles Deleuze’s understanding of sense, as developed in Logic of Sense, by developing a metaphysics of problems. In doing this, we can appreciate the role Hume’s philosophy plays in Deleuze’s thought, and most importantly how we can understand sense in the context of making sense of life. With this perspective in place, we compare Deleuze’s project with Pierre Bourdieu’s and, finally, apply the notion of making sense to the history of the emergence of capitalis…Read more
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8Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2017.11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead's Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927, to give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new scientific, cultural and technological developments.
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11Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish EnlightenmentEdinburgh University Press. 2008.This book offers the first extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume. Jeffrey Bell argues that Deleuze's early work on Hume was instrumental to Deleuze's formulation of the problems and concepts that would remain the focus of his entire corpus. Reading Deleuze's work in light of Hume's influence, along with a comparison of Deleuze's work with William James, Henri Bergson, and others, sets the stage for a vigorous defence of his philosophy against a number of recent…Read more
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11Chapter 8 Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kant’s Copernican RevolutionIn Frida Beckman (ed.), Deleuze and Sex, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 153-173. 2011.
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13Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and GuideEdinburgh University Press. 2016.Machine generated contents note: 1.What is a Concept? -- 2.Why Philosophy? -- 3.How to Become a Philosopher -- 4.Putting Philosophy in its Place -- 5.Philosophy and Science -- 6.Philosophy and Logic -- 7.Philosophy and Art.
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31Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of DifferenceUniversity of Toronto Press. 2006.From the early 1960s until his death, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. One of Deleuze's main philosophical projects was a systematic inversion of the traditional relationship between identity and difference. This Deleuzian philosophy of difference is the subject of Jeffrey A. Bell's Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos. Bell argues that Deleuze's efforts to develop a philosophy of difference are best understood by exploring …Read more
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22A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2018."This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.'A Thousand Plateaus' represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important an…Read more
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15Reading Problems: Literacy and the Dynamics of ThoughtOpen Philosophy 1 (1): 223-234. 2018.In this article, we address the problem of predication, or the problem of connecting conceptual predicates to the sets of properties and attributes that correspond to these predicates. We take as our starting point Mark Wilson’s work, especially “Predicate meets Property,” and add to it a metaphysics of problems that one finds in the work of Gilles Deleuze. This enables us to understand the relationship between a predicate and the set of properties in terms of the relationship between a solution…Read more
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18Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide, James WilliamsJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 41 (2): 223-224. 2010.
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12Deleuze and Geophilosophy, by Mark Bonta and John ProteviJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 37 (2): 221-222. 2006.
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43Are We Mad? Intensity and the Problems of Modern PhilosophyDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 11 (2): 195-215. 2017.In this essay Deleuze's concept of intensity is placed into the context of the problem of accounting for the relationship between sense perception and our conceptual categories. By developing the manner in which Kant responds to Hume's critique of metaphysics, this essay shows how Deleuze develops a Humean line of thought whereby the heterogeneous as heterogeneous is embraced rather than, as is done in Kant, being largely held in relationship to an already prior unity.
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17The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (edited book)University of Toronto Press. 1998.Jeffrey A. Bell here presents a finely constructed survey of the contemporary continental philosophers, focusing on how they have dealt with the problem of difference.
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12Conclusion: The Search for ‘Rosebud’In The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 223-240. 1998.
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8II. The Perceptual NoemaIn The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 49-88. 1998.
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