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38What Laws? Which Past?: Meillassoux’s Hyper-Chaos and the Epistemological Limitations of Retro-CausationOpen Philosophy 1 (1): 235-244. 2018.The question of the metaphysical status of the laws of physics has received increased attention in recent years. Perhaps most well-known among this work are David Lewis’s Humean supervenience and Nancy Cartwright’s dispositionalism, both of which reject the classical conception of the laws of physics as necessary and real independent of the objects they govern, arguing instead that what we call laws are shorthand for the regularities of local states of affairs or the dispositions of objects. The…Read more
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11Building a Way: Becoming Active in One’s Own Subjectivation through Deleuze and XunziPhilosophies 7 (5): 98. 2022.While Continental thought has no shortage of criticism and diagnosis of social, political, and ethical issues, it tends to avoid offering guidance on what to do about such issues. In Reconsidering the Life of Power, Garrison argues for a radical new alternative for the Continental tradition: it ought to stage an encounter with the Confucian tradition. This is because, he argues, both traditions have at the center of their political thought a focus on the social formation of subjects, that is, th…Read more
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7Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable, by Gaetano Chiurazzi, trans. Robert T. Valgenti, Switzerland: Springer Verlag, 2021, pp. 179, $139.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-69005-2 (review)Comparative and Continental Philosophy 15 (1): 135-137. 2023.Chiurazzi launches a new salvo into the debate over the fundamentality of modality, and, fascinatingly, he does so by using the enemy's artillery. Though Chiurazzi's response is recognizably within...
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