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22Is There Critique in Critical Theory?In María Del Del Rosario Acosta López & Colin McQuillan (eds.), Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory, Suny Press. pp. 317-334. 2020.
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8What Does It Mean to Think?In Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), Open borders: encounters between Italian philosophy and continental thought, State University of New York Press. pp. 137-158. 2021.
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Notes on contributorsIn Andrew LaZella & Richard A. Lee (eds.), The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy, Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy. pp. 357-360. 2020.
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IndexIn Andrew LaZella & Richard A. Lee (eds.), The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy, Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy. pp. 361-374. 2020.
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Editors’ IntroductionIn Andrew LaZella & Richard A. Lee (eds.), The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy, Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy. pp. 1-18. 2020.
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14The Play of Force versus the Reduction of Force: Hobbes and Roger Bacon on PerceptionHobbes Studies 13 (1): 34-45. 2000.
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17Materialism as Metaphysics?Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 26 (2): 137-155. 2005.“Whatever is, is matter.” Is this all there is to materialism? Is it really nothing more than the result of a kind of metaphysical census? “We have looked around, and all we find is matter. The reports of souls and angels, God and separated intelligences, ideas and essences have all proven false. Whatever is, is matter.” Yet how would I ever come to know such a thing? The issue is not only that I cannot possibly take such a census. More problematically, these purported non-material entities are …Read more
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22The May Day Machine: Assemblages in Nineteenth-Century ChicagoJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (1): 63-81. 2017.ABSTRACT This article uses the central insights of Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus to analyze the labor movement in Chicago at the end of the nineteenth century, leading up to the Haymarket event and its aftermath. The article concludes by indicating some of the shortcomings of that approach.
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16Tracing the Logic of ForceEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (1): 103-120. 2003.Roger Bacon’s On the Multiplication of Species is an attempt to analyze efficient causality in terms of forces that are multiplied from agent to patient. This essay argues that this has significant implications for the traditional distinction between appearance and reality in that Bacon refuses to think efficient cause in terms of some other reality that does not appear and yet is the ground of appearance.
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38The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy (edited book)Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy. 2020.A team of leading international scholars examine Middle Ages and Renaissance philosophy from the perspective of themes and lines of thought that cut across authors, disciplines and national boundaries, opening up new ways to conceptualise the history of this period within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature.
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13The Glorious Excess of Peace in Marsilius of Padua's Defensor PacisTheoria 66 (159): 23-51. 2019.In Defensor Pacis Marsilius of Padua grounds the legitimacy of the kingdom, or the state, on the peace that rule provides the citizens. Looking at Aristotle’s claim that the civitas strives to be like an animal in which all parts in the right proportion for the sake of health, Marsilius argues that ‘the parts of the kingdom or state will be well disposed for the sake of peace [tranquilitas].’ Marsilius goes on to define peace as the agreeable ‘belonging together’ of all members of the kingdom or…Read more
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22Mana and LogosGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 22 (2): 29-48. 2001.One of the constant themes of Adorno’s work, running from his early essay “The Idea of Natural History” through his unfinished Aesthetic Theory, is the notion of the experience of power within the natural realm and the relation of rational “enlightenment” to this experience. On the one hand, “Enlightenment is mythic fear turned radical” ; on the other hand, “Myth turns into enlightenment, and nature into mere objectivity”. What concerns Adorno is precisely the dialectic that enlightenment itself…Read more
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41At least they had an ethos: Comedy as the only possible critiqueAngelaki 21 (3): 55-64. 2016.I argue that the uniqueness of comedy lies in its potential for social critique. Reading through Aristotle, Hegel, and Umberto Eco, I show that because comedy is not negative, not a counter-argument, it can expose social structures for what they are.
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12The Thought of Matter: Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of ImmanenceRowman & Littlefield International. 2015.The Thought of Matter advances current debates around materialism, arguing that matter is the ‘other’ of thought and, therefore, requires a method that allows that other to emerge in thought without being appropriated by it.
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40Peter Aureoli as Critic of Aquinas on the Subalternate Character of the Science of TheologyFranciscan Studies 55 (1): 121-136. 1998.
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10Science, the Singular, and the Question of TheologySpringer. 2002.Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d'Ailly. It pursues the question specifically in relation to the question of whether theology is a science. The work argues that the main issue in debates concerns whether theology is a science and how to provide a 'rational ground' for existing singulars. Science, the Singul…Read more
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Nous and Logos in AristotleFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 54 (3): 348-367. 2007.
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21The History of Philosophy as Perversion: On Karmen MacKendrickJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2): 404-410. 2012.