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1Introduction 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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5Rationalist Elements of Twentieth‐Century Analytic PhilosophyIn Alan Jean Nelson (ed.), A Companion to Rationalism, Wiley-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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26After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism by Tom RockmoreReview of Metaphysics 75 (4): 827-829. 2022.
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7Chapter 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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232Functionalism and logical analysisIn David Woodruff Smith & Amie Lynn 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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50Platonism 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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6IntroductionIn 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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2The 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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17Working 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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88Idealism, 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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23The 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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35Editorial Introduction for the Topical Issue “The New Metaphysics: Analytic/continental Crossovers”Open Philosophy 1 (1): 401-407. 2018.
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31Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and TruthAncient Philosophy 37 (2): 449-455. 2017.
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55Presentation 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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163Experience 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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2Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (edited book)Routledge. 2015.This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions—one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems. Rather than rehearsing the causes of the divide, contributors draw upon the problems, methods, and results of both traditions to show what post-divide philosophical work looks like in practice. Ranging from metaphysics and …Read more
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43In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their deve…Read more
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97Philosophical History and the Problem of ConsciousnessCambridge University Press. 2004.The problem of explaining consciousness remains a problem about the meaning of language: the ordinary language of consciousness in which we define and express our sensations, thoughts, dreams and memories. This book argues that the problem arises from a quest that has taken shape over the twentieth century, and that the analysis of history provides new resources for understanding and resolving it. Paul Livingston traces the development of the characteristic practices of analytic philosophy to pr…Read more
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195'Meaning is use' in the tractatusPhilosophical Investigations 27 (1). 2004.Frege ridiculed the formalist conception of mathematics by saying that the formalists confused the unimportant thing, the sign, with the important, the meaning. Surely, one wishes to say, mathematics does not treat of dashes on a bit of paper. Frege’s idea could be expressed thus: the propositions of mathematics, if they were just complexes of dashes, would be dead and utterly uninteresting, whereas they obviously have a kind of life. And the same, of course, could be said of any proposition: Wi…Read more
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120Dialectics, Infinity and the Absolute: Response to SkemptonInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (3): 402-408. 2014.No abstract
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133Badiou and the Consequences of FormalismCosmos and History 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 …Read more