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179Between Realism and Anti-realism: Deleuze and the Spinozist Tradition in PhilosophyDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 5 (1): 1-17. 2011.In 1967, after a talk Deleuze gave to the Society of French Philosophy, Ferdinand Alquiéé expressed concern during the question and answer session that perhaps Deleuze was relying too heavily upon science and not giving adequate attention to questions and problems that Alquiéé took to be distinctively philosophical. Deleuze responded by agreeing with Alquiéé; moreover, he argued that his primary interest was precisely in the metaphysics science needs rather than in the science philosophy needs. …Read more
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79Thinking with Cinema: Deleuze and Film TheoryFilm-Philosophy 1 (1). 1997.on 'Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher of Cinema', special issue of the journal Iris
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54History Undone: Towards a Deleuzo-Guattarian Philosophy of History (review)Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 2 (1): 109-119. 2008.For those familiar with the work of Deleuze, and Deleuze and Guattari, it might at first seem unwise to pursue a Deleuze and Guattarian philosophy of history. After all, is it not Deleuze who, in an interview with Antonio Negri, argues that ‘What history grasps in an event is the way it’s actualized in particular circumstances; the event's becoming is beyond the scope of history'? (Deleuze 1995: 170). And more damningly, Deleuze adds, ‘History isn’t experimental, it's just the set of more or les…Read more
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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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40Steven Shaviro, The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015. 2015.
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40Charting the Road of Inquiry: Deleuze's Humean Pragmatics and the Challenge of BadiouSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (3): 399-425. 2010.This essay responds to Badiou's charge that Deleuze fails to set forth a philosophy that is “beyond Gategorical oppositions.” It is argued that this criticism of Deleuze is founded upon a misreading of the Deleuzean distinction between the virtual and the actual, a reading that carries forward Badiou's misreading of Spinoza and, hence, of Deleuze's Spinozism. With this corrected, we show how the virtual‐actual distinction operates within the experimental philosophy, or pragmatics, that Deleuze, …Read more
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33Experiments in Thinking: An Assay of Smith's "Essays on Deleuze"Philosophy Today 58 (3): 487-498. 2014.
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31Deleuze's HumeHume Studies 35 (1/2): 246-250. 2008.This book offers an extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume. The book argues that Deleuze's early work on Hume was instrumental to Deleuze's formulation of the problems and concepts that would remain a 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 set the stage for a vigorous defence of his philosophy against a number of recent criticisms and …Read more
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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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27"The World is an Egg": Realism, Mathematics, and the Thresholds of DIfferenceSpeculations 65-70. 2013.
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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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20A 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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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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17Twentieth-century French philosophy and the radicalization of KantBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-6. forthcoming..
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16The 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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16Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (edited book)Routledge. 2015.This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions—one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems. Rather than rehearsing the causes of the divide, contributors draw upon the problems, methods, and results of both traditions to show what post-divide philosophical work looks like in practice. Ranging from metaphysics and …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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12Deleuze and Geophilosophy, by Mark Bonta and John ProteviJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 37 (2): 221-222. 2006.
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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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11NotesIn The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 241-278. 1998.
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112. 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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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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11ContentsIn The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. 1998.
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11Deleuze 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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10VII. Untaming the FleshIn The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 164-180. 1998.
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10III. The Middle Path 91In The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 91-105. 1998.
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10AcknowledgmentsIn The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism, University of Toronto Press. 1998.
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