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Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice in Constructing the RealsIn Bharath Sriraman (ed.), Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer. pp. 1461-1472. 2024.The ancient problem of the relationship of the continuous to the discrete, since its discovery by the Greeks, has posed a range of immensely fruitful challenges to both philosophical and mathematical thought, leading to a variety of mathematical and conceptual innovations whose positive development actively continues today. In this brief section introduction, I selectively outline some significant moments at which this problem has provided important historical occasions for concrete mathematical…Read more
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Karl SCHUHMANN: Selected Papers on Phenomenology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004Grazer Philosophische Studien 70 (1): 266. 2006.
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4Rationalist Elements of Twentieth‐Century Analytic PhilosophyIn Alan Nelson (ed.), A Companion to Rationalism, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV.
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39 ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on Truth and the SubjectIn Adrian Johnston (ed.), Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 165-182. 2021.
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Lacan, Deleuze and the consequences of formalismIn Boštjan Nedoh & Andreja Zevnik (eds.), Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, Eup. 2016.
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18After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism by Tom RockmoreReview of Metaphysics 75 (4): 827-829. 2022.
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6Chapter 12 Lacan, Deleuze and the Consequences of FormalismIn Boštjan Nedoh & Andreja Zevnik (eds.), Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, Eup. pp. 203-220. 2016.
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19The Logic of Being: Realism, Truth, and TimeNorthwestern University Press. 2017.In the Logic of Being: Realism, Truth, and Time, the influential philosopher Paul M. Livingston explores and illuminates truth, time, and their relationship by employing methods from both Continental and analytic philosophy.
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228Functionalism and logical analysisIn David Woodruff Smith & Amie L. Thomasson (eds.), Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 19. 2005.After more than thirty-five years of debate and discussion, versions of the functionalist theory of mind originating in the work of Hilary Putnam, Jerry Fodor, and David Lewis still remain the most popular positions among philosophers of mind on the nature of mental states and processes. Functionalism has enjoyed such popularity owing, at least in part, to its claim to offer a plausible and compelling description of the nature of the mental that is also consistent with an underlying physicalist o…Read more
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42Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy. By Lloyd P. GersonAncient Philosophy 41 (1): 221-231. 2021.
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15Sense, Realism, and Ontological DifferenceIn Dominik Finkelde & Paul M. Livingston (eds.), Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, De Gruyter. pp. 233-256. 2020.
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5IntroductionIn Dominik Finkelde & Paul M. Livingston (eds.), Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, De Gruyter. pp. 1-14. 2020.
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1The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of SenseIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Semantics and Beyond: Philosophical and Linguistic Inquiries. Preface, De Gruyter. pp. 161-184. 2014.
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15Working through Balaska’s deeply perceptive, elegantly written, and profoundly honest book, Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit, a reader steeped in the recent academic literature about either or both of its main figures may come to feel herself placed at what is, itself, a certain kind of limit. The limit I mean is the limit of a familiar type of theoretical discourse about the constitution and structure of language and subjectivity as Wittgenstein and Lacan treat them: it includes the discours…Read more
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85Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide (edited book)De Gruyter. 2020.Several debates of the last years within the research field of contemporary realism – known under titles such as "New Realism," "Continental Realism," or "Speculative Materialism" – have shown that science is not systematically the ultimate measure of truth and reality. This does not mean that we should abandon the notions of truth or objectivity all together, as has been posited repeatedly within certain currents of twentieth century philosophy. However, within the research field of contemporar…Read more
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21The Analytic Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in the United States: History, Problems, and ProspectsIn Michela Beatrice Ferri & Carlo Ierna (eds.), The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America, Springer Verlag. pp. 435-459. 2019.This paper considers the historical and current reception of Husserl’s phenomenological project within the tradition of analytic philosophy, especially in the United States. Despite the fact that both Husserlian phenomenology and the analytic tradition have centrally undertaken systematic analysis and clarification of structures of meaning or sense, the project of phenomenological analysis and reflection has never been centrally or comprehensively integrated into the most characteristic projects…Read more
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33Editorial Introduction for the Topical Issue “The New Metaphysics: Analytic/continental Crossovers”Open Philosophy 1 (1): 401-407. 2018.
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29Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and TruthAncient Philosophy 37 (2): 449-455. 2017.
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53Presentation and the Ontology of ConsciousnessGrazer Philosophische Studien 94 (3): 301-331. 2017._ Source: _Volume 94, Issue 3, pp 301 - 331 The idea that we can understand key aspects of the metaphysics of consciousness by understanding conscious states as having a _presentational_ character plays an essential role in the phenomenological tradition beginning with Brentano and Husserl. In this paper, the author explores some potential consequences of this connection for contemporary discussions of the ontology of consciousness in the world. Drawing on Hintikka’s analysis of epistemic modali…Read more
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9Badiou and the Conseqeunces of FormalismCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 8 (1): 131-150. 2012.I consider the relationship of Badiou’s schematism of the event to critical thought following the linguistic turn as well as to the mathematical formalisms of set theory. In Being and Event, Badiou uses formal argumentation to support his sweeping rejection of the linguistic turn as well as much of contemporary critical thought. This rejection stems from his interpretation of set theory as barring thought from the 'One-All' of totality; but I argue that, by interpreting it differently, we can un…Read more
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1Experience and Structure: An Investigation in the History of Philosophy of MindDissertation, University of California, Irvine. 2002.Historical investigation and analysis of the concepts of "consciousness," "experience," and "explanation" can clarify and sharpen contemporary discussion in philosophy of mind about the problem of explaining consciousness. I have investigated the difficulties of explaining consciousness at four historically important moments in the development of analytic philosophy of mind. In each chapter, I unearth and evaluate the arguments originally made for influential theories and doctrines, and analyze …Read more
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161Experience and structure: Philosophical history and the problem of consciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 9 (3): 15-33. 2002.Investigation and analysis of the history of the concepts employed in contemporary philosophy of mind could significantly change the contemporary debate about the explainability of consciousness. Philosophical investigation of the history of the concept of qualia and the concept of scientific explanation most often presupposed in contemporary discussions of consciousness reveals the origin of both concepts in some of the most interesting philosophical debates of the twentieth century. In particu…Read more
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170Thinking and being: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on machination and lived-experienceInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 46 (3). 2003.Heidegger's treatment of 'machination' in the Beiträge zur Philosophie begins the critique of technological thinking that would centrally characterize his later work. Unlike later discussions of technology, the critique of machination in Beiträge connects its arising to the predominance of 'lived-experience' ( Erlebnis ) as the concealed basis for the possibility of a pre-delineated, rule-based metaphysical understanding of the world. In this essay I explore this connection. The unity of machina…Read more
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6Philosophy and the Vision of LanguageRoutledge. 2008._Philosophy and the Vision of Language_ explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection. It traces the implications of the access to language in some of the most prominent projects and results of the historical and contemporary tradition of analytic philosophy, including the projects of Frege, Wittgenstein, Sellars, Quine, Brandom, and Cavell. Additionally, it demonstrates the…Read more
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180My aim in this paper is to begin a discussion about how, and to what extent, Martin Heidegger’s thinking about technology offers helpful critical terms for thinking about the nature and global sway of today’s most dominant and prevalent forms of technology, namely the interrelated technologies of information, communication, and (capitalist) commerce. My suggestion will be that Heidegger’s thought does indeed have implications for critical thinking about these technologies, but that in order to s…Read more
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104Badiou and the Politics of FormPhilosophy Compass 7 (5): 304-315. 2012.In this essay, I explore Alain Badiou’s longstanding project of theorizing political situations and political transformation through the analysis of forms and formalisms. This amounts, I argue, to a politics of form that draws on the thought of Sartre, Althusser, and Lacan, but offers new alternatives for political thought and action today. In particular, Badiou’s rigorous consideration of forms, which draws on mathematics, model theory, set theory, and category theory, allows him to theorize po…Read more
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162Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus famously ends with a remark that, as he says in the book’s “Preface,” could also summarize the sense of the book as a whole: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Passing over, for the moment, the difference between speaking and knowing, the remark can be read almost as a paraphrase of one written almost 2500 years ago: You could not know what is not – that cannot be done – nor indicate it. (KR 291).