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60Philosophy of consciousness and the bodyIn John Mullarkey & Beth Lord (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, Continuum. 2009.DEFINING THE LIMITS OF THE FIELD. Because 'consciousness and the body' is central to so many philosophical endeavors, I cannot provide a comprehensive survey of recent work. So we must begin by limiting the scope of our inquiry. First, we will concentrate on work done in English or translated into English, simply to ensure ease of access to the texts under examination. Second, we will concentrate on work done in the last 15 years or so, since the early 1990s. Third, we will concentrate on those …Read more
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The Economy of Time: Heidegger and Derrida on Aristotle, Time and MetaphysicsDissertation, Loyola University of Chicago. 1990.This dissertation explores the main texts of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida on the relation of the so-called "straight-line" theory of time to the so-called "metaphysical tradition." In Being and Time Heidegger states that a determination of Being as presence characterizes metaphysics and that such a determination of Being can be found in Aristotle's theory of time. Derrida examines how such a characterization of metaphysics affects Heidegger's project. ;Chapter I explores in detail how De…Read more
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61Between Deleuze and Derrida (edited book)Continuum. 2003.Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to explore and compare the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. This is done via a number of key themes, including the philosophy of difference, language, memory, time, event, and love, as well as relating these themes to their respective approaches to Philosophy, Literature, Politics and Mathematics. Contributors: Eric Alliez, Branka Arsic, Gregg Lambert, Leonard Lawlor, Alphonso Lingis, …Read more
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15Esprit de Corps and thinking on (and with) your feet: Standard, enactive, and poststructuralist aspects of relational autonomy and collective intentionality in team sportsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 61 (S1): 24-38. 2023.To concretize my discussion of relational autonomy and collective intentionality, I present a case study in which we can see several themes in that scholarly literature exemplified in a real‐life event. The event in question is the Megan Rapinoe‐Abby Wambach goal in the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup of 2011, one of the greatest in all World Cup history (A video clip of the goal can be found at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4q6di‐3fg.). In the case study, I concentrate on the ontolog…Read more
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8Naturalism in the Continental TraditionIn Kelly James Clark (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, Wiley-blackwell. 2015.We begin by treating the antinaturalism of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, and follow that by considering the recent project of “naturalizing phenomenology.” As a transitional figure, we treat Hans Jonas and the weakly emergent status he allows organismic life. In a section on “affirmative naturalism,” we treat Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, and Gilles Deleuze, emphasizing their relation to Spinoza's ethics of joy. We conclude by considering the antinaturalism of continental philosophy posi…Read more
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36. Foucault’s Deleuzian Methodology of the Late 1970sIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 120-127. 2016.
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19. Supra- and Subpersonal Registers of Political PhysiologyIn Jami Weinstein (ed.), Posthumous life: theorizing beyond the posthuman, Columbia University Press. pp. 211-224. 2017.
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15COVID-19 in the United States as affective frameFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.In this paper I attempt to contribute to the developing field of “political philosophy of mind.” To render concrete the notion of “affective frame,” a social situation which pre-selects for salience and valence of environmental factors relative to a subject’s life, I conduct a case study of a deleterious socially instituted affective frame, which, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, produced individuated circumstances that came crashing down on “essential workers…Read more
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6Chapter 2 Larval Subjects, Autonomous Systems and E. Coli ChemotaxisIn Laura Guillaume & Joe Hughes (eds.), Deleuze and the Body, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 29-52. 2011.
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8P o l i t i c a l PhilosophyIn Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 570-589. 2007.
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5The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental PhilosophyEdinburgh University Press. 2005.The first ever dictionary of continental philosophy to be published.With over 450 clearly written definitions and articles by an international team of specialists, this authoritative dictionary covers the thinkers, topics and technical terms associated with the many fields known as 'continental' philosophy'. Special care has been taken to explain the complex terminology of many continental thinkers. Researchers, students and professional philosophers alike will find the dictionary an invaluable …Read more
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6Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics, by Richard ShustermanJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 40 (2): 228-230. 2009.
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7Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy, by Manuel DeLandaJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 34 (3): 330-333. 2003.
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11Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer, ed. Keith Ansell PearsonJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31 (2): 208-211. 2000.
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15Deleuze: A Critical Reader, ed. Paul PattonJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31 (2): 208-211. 2000.
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39Stanley on IdeologyTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (3): 357-369. 2016.I explore Jason Stanley’s notion of ideology. After preliminary remarks on ideology and coercion in social reproduction, I offer a restatement of Stanley’s position on ideology, examining his notion of epistemic harm. I then examine the role of emotion in his thinking as that which binds beliefs to agents, and conclude with an argument for a notion I call “affective ideology” that enables us to connect ideology with the use of force in “coercive social reproduction.”Examino la noción de ideologí…Read more
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33Deleuze, Guattari and EmergenceParagraph 29 (2): 19-39. 2006.The concept of emergence—which I define as the construction of functional structures in complex systems that achieve a focus of systematic behaviour as they constrain the behaviour of individual components—plays a crucial role in debates in philosophical reflection on science as a whole as well as in the fields of biology, social science and cognitive science. In this article I examine how the philosophy of Deleuze and that of Deleuze and Guattari can help us see some of the most important impli…Read more
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8Avoiding a "Superficial Reading": Derrida's Reading of the "The Anaximander Fragment"Philosophy Today 38 (1): 88-97. 1994.
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46Hegel Interprete di Aristotele (review)The Owl of Minerva 24 (1): 94-96. 1992.Alfredo Ferrarin has written an excellent study of Hegel’s interpretation of Aristotle. He clearly states his intention on p. 18: He wishes to examine the “effective presence of Aristotelian themes in Hegel,” particularly that of energeia, in order to follow the way in which “the idea of autoreferential activity in its Aristotelan sense operates in the details and in the particular contents of Hegel’s interpretation [of Aristotle] and in the course of Hegel’s own philosophy.” Bringing together a…Read more
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120Both Deleuze in DR and Thompson / Jonas can be fairly said to be biological panpsychists. That‘s pretty much what ―Mind in Life‖ means: mind and life are co-extensive: life = autopoiesis and cognition = sense-making. Thus Mind in Life = autopoietic sense-making = control of action of organism in environment. Sense-making here is three-fold: 1) sensibility as openness to environment; 2) signification as positive or negative valence of environmental features relative to the subjective norms of the…Read more
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33Violence and Authority in KantEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (1): 65-89. 1994.
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28In the first part of this talk I show how some ideas in the new "4EA" branch of cognitive science, which gets away from the computer metaphor to talk about affective cognition as the direction of action of an organism, can be illuminated by Deleuze's ontology. Now that may sound ridiculous, as Deleuze's terminology is notoriously baroque – how could it ever "illuminate" anything? So I'm going to be using plain English translations of his concepts; I think his concepts are too good, too useful, f…Read more
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107God has been called many things, but perhaps nothing so strange as the name of “lobster” which he receives in A Thousand Plateaus.1 Is this simple profanation a pendant to the gleeful anti-clericalism of Deleuze2, for whom there is no insult so wretched as that of “priest”?3 Certainly, on one level. But it is also a clue to Deleuze’s ability to use a traditional concern of theology, the name of God, to intervene in the most basic questions of Western philosophy, in this case, the interchange of …Read more
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129While Agamben acknowledges the Arendtian and Foucaultian thesis of the modernity of biopower, he will claim that sovereignty and biopolitics are equally ancient and essentially intertwined in the originary gesture of all politics; sovereignty is the power to decide the state of exception whereby bare life or zoe is exposed "underneath" political life or bios. Agamben then finds in the concentration camp the modern biopolitical paradigm, in which the state of exception has become the rule and we …Read more
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64Truth and genesis: Philosophy as differential ontology (review)Continental Philosophy Review 38 (1-2): 125-129. 2005.
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