-
59Between 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
-
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
-
8Naturalism in the Continental TraditionIn Kelly James Clark (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, Wiley. 2016.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
-
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.
-
19. Supra- and Subpersonal Registers of Political PhysiologyIn Jami Weinstein (ed.), Posthumous life: theorizing beyond the posthuman, Columbia University Press. pp. 211-224. 2017.
-
13COVID-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
-
5Chapter 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.
-
5P 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.
-
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
-
6Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics, by Richard ShustermanJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 40 (2): 228-230. 2009.
-
7Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy, by Manuel DeLandaJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 34 (3): 330-333. 2003.
-
11Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer, ed. Keith Ansell PearsonJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31 (2): 208-211. 2000.
-
15Deleuze: A Critical Reader, ed. Paul PattonJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31 (2): 208-211. 2000.
-
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
-
30Deleuze, 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
-
15Avoiding a "Superficial Reading": Derrida's Reading of the "The Anaximander Fragment"Philosophy Today 38 (1): 88-97. 1994.
-
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
-
116Both 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
-
21La verità della parola (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (3): 612-614. 1989.Anna Cazzullo, one of the leading young Italian scholars, a student of Carlo Sini, has produced a most useful work on the origins of Western thought on metaphor. Cazzullo begins her La verità della parola with a Borges poem in which the birth of logos, as represented by a conversation between "two Greeks, perhaps Socrates and Parmenides," is accompanied by a suppression of myth and metaphor. This dual gesture, in which philosophy originates through the marginalization of other types of discourse…Read more
-
52The magnum opus of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, is not only the most important work of 20th century French philosophy, but also provides an unprecedented opportunity for philosophers and geographers to collaborate. Although neither were professional geographers A Thousand Plateaus constitutes a “geophilosophy,” a neo-materialism, which, in linking the philosophical materialisms of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud with contemporary science, avoids the traditional bogeys of mat…Read more
-
114Adding Deleuze to the mixPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9 (3): 417-436. 2010.In this article I will suggest ways in which adding the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the mix can complement and extend the 4EA approach to cognitive science. In the first part of the paper, I will show how the Deleuzean tripartite ontological difference (virtual/intensive/actual) can provide an explicit ontology for dynamical systems theory. The second part will take these ontological notions and apply them to three areas of concern to the 4EA approaches: (a) the Deleuzean concept of the…Read more
-
16Inventio and the Unsurpassable Metaphor: Ricoeur's Treatment of Augustine's Time MeditationPhilosophy Today 43 (1): 86-94. 1999.
-
36Review of Catherine Malabou, Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (2). 2010.
-
9Egyptian priests and German professors: On the alleged difficulty of philosophyPhilosophy Today 41 (1): 181-188. 1997.
-
50Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body PoliticAthlone Press. 2001.Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.
-
30For Deleuze and for DG, being is production. The production process (intensive difference driving material flows resulting in actual or extensive forms) is structured by virtual Ideas or multiplicities or “abstract machines.”1 Thought, however, is vice-diction or counter-effectuation: it goes the other way from production. It is a matter of establishing the Idea / multiplicity of something – “constructing a concept” – by moving from extensity through intensity to virtuality.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |