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5Philosophy and/or politicsIn Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs & Jack Reynolds (eds.), 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War: crisis and reconfigurations, Springer. pp. 215-232. 2017.In this chapter, I revisit the question of the philosophical significance of the Great War upon the trajectory of philosophy in the twentieth century. While accounts of this are very rare in philosophy, and this is itself symptomatic, those that are given are also strangely implausible. They usually assert one of two things: that the War had little or no philosophical significance because most of the major developments had already begun, or—at the opposite extreme—they maintain that nothing was …Read more
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60Russell, Ryle and Phenomenology: An Alternative Parsing of the WaysIn Aaron Preston (ed.), Interpreting the Analytic Tradition, Routledge. pp. 52-69. 2017.In this paper, we examine the historical relationship between phenomenology and the emerging analytic tradition. We pay particular attention to the reception of Husserl’s work by Russell, Moore, and others, and to some convergences between phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy, noted by Wittgenstein, Austin, and Ryle. Focusing on Russell and Ryle, we argue that the historical details suggest an alternative parsing of the ways to the “parting of the ways” narrative made famous by Dummett…Read more
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11Action Experience and Action Discovery in Medicated Individuals with Parkinson’s DiseaseFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 10. 2016.
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179Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time and Ethics of the EventDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 1 (2): 144-166. 2007.This paper explores the idea that Deleuze’s oeuvre is best understood as a philosophy of the wound, synonymous with a philosophy of the event. Although this wound/scar typology may appear to be a metaphorical conceit, the motif of the wound recurs frequently and perhaps even symptomatically in many of Deleuze’s texts, particularly where he is attempting to delineate some of the most important differences (transcendental, temporal, and ethical) between himself and his phenomenological predecessor…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |