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    In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation between events govern their ‘evental’ or ‘ideal play’, and ultimately underlie determined substances, that is, worldly individuals and persons. Leibniz calls these relations ‘compossibility’ and ‘incompossibility’. Deleuze calls them ‘convergence’ and ‘divergence’. This paper explores how Deleuze appropriates and extends a number of Leibnizian concepts in order to ground the idea that events have ontological priority ov…Read more
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    Punishment for Mob‐based Harms: Expressing and Denouncing Mob Mentality
    with Sarah Sorial and Kylie Bourne
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 38 (3): 366-383. 2019.
    Larry May's and Kenneth Shockley's discussions of punishment for mob‐based harms fall back on the idea of individual mens rea. They recognise that the mens rea element is complicated by the fact that an individual's intentional actions in the context of mob activity have a collective dimension to them, either because they are ‘group‐based’, or because they are enabled or constrained by the collective's ‘normative authority’. However, their accounts of punishment fail to adequately reflect this c…Read more
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    Badiou and Philosophy (edited book)
    with Simon Duffy
    Edinburgh University Press. 2012.
    A reassessment of Badiou's work which demonstrates its critical importance for contemporary philosophy. This collection of thirteen essays engages directly with the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work and the various connections he established with both his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. You’ll find in-depth critical readings of his oeuvre through the lens of a number of important philosophical thinkers and themes, ranging from Can…Read more
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    Alain Badiou: From Ontology to Politics and Back
    Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 15 (2): 67-93. 2005.
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    Deleuze et les Stoïciens
    Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 15 (1): 72-97. 2005.
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    Gilles Deleuze, a reader of Gilbert Simondon
    In Arne De Boever (ed.), Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 135--153. 2012.
    This article consists of a close reading and explication of several of the central philosophical concepts to be found in Simondon's L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique. It then proceeds to show how not only these concepts, but also Simondon's method for constructing these concepts, are taken up by Gilles Deleuze in Chapter 5 of his Difference and Repetition. In particular, the article shows how Deleuze's characterization of ‘intensive processes of individuation’ is thoroughly Simondonian.…Read more
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    Deleuze and the Unconscious (review)
    Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 2 (Suppl): 148-153. 2008.
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    In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze claims that it is in virtue of a relation of expression which holds between intensive processes of individuation and virtual Ideas that the former determines the latter to be actualised in concrete entities. He is, however, less than forthcoming in this book about exactly how we should understand the relation of expression. This article addresses itself to this lacuna. It clarifies five characteristic features of the expressive relation, partly by drawing on…Read more
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    This paper critically examines the relation between problems and the formation and development of concepts in Bergson’s work, as well as in Bachelard, Canguilhem and Deleuze. Building on work by Elie During, I argue that it is not only Bergson but also Deleuze who shares with the French epistemological tradition an “anti-positivist” conception of concept formation, founded upon the posing and solving of novel problems as opposed to the acquisition and verification of empirical facts. Contrary to…Read more
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    A major problem threatens Deleuze’s project in The Logic of Sense. He makes an ontological distinction between events and substances, but he then collapses a crucial distinction between two kinds of events, namely, actions and mere occurrences. Indeed, whereas actions are commonly differentiated from mere occurrences with reference to their causal dependence on the intentions of their agents, Deleuze asserts a strict ontological distinction between the realm of causes and the realm of events, an…Read more
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    Encounters and the Differential Genesis of Thought in The Logic of Sense
    Deleuze and Guattari Studies 16 (1): 24-50. 2022.
    Several themes treated in chapter 3 of Difference and Repetition are addressed at greater length in The Logic of Sense, published one year later. In particular, Deleuze's critique of ‘the privilege of designation’ and ‘the modality of solutions’, along with his positive claims about the relation between sense and problems, arguably summarise a number of analyses found in The Logic of Sense. However, despite the convergence between Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense as regards the s…Read more
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    The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    Foucault and Philosophy (review)
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (1). 2012.
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 90, Issue 1, Page 203, March 2012
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    This paper critically examines the relation between problems and the formation and development of concepts in Bergson’s work, as well as in Bachelard, Canguilhem and Deleuze. Building on work by Elie During, I argue that it is not only Bergson but also Deleuze who shares with the French epistemological tradition an “anti-positivist” conception of concept formation, founded upon the posing and solving of novel problems as opposed to the acquisition and verification of empirical facts. Contrary to…Read more
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    Problematizing problems
    Angelaki 23 (2): 2-7. 2018.
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    Normativity and Expressive Agency in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Deleuze
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (2): 236-259. 2015.
    ABSTRACT This article synthesizes several different studies of Hegel's and Nietzsche's expressive conceptions of action and agency and identifies a related account in Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It argues that such conceptions not only challenge familiar voluntarist accounts of action and agency; they also demand a reassessment of standard approaches to the relation between norms and action. For the voluntarist, an agent's action is caused by the separate, prior intention of the agent. For express…Read more
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    After having identified several shortcomings of the so-called ‘standard accounts’ of shared intentions, this paper will develop a novel framework for understanding such intentions. The framework to be advanced hinges on a notion of ‘expression’, as well as on the claim that shared intentions are expressed—that is, manifested, grasped, shaped and clarified—throughout the unfolding of the joint actions they animate, as well as in the various expressive activities and behaviours that accompany join…Read more
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    Joint Action and the Expression of Shared Intentions: An Expanded Taylorian Account
    European Journal of Philosophy 25 (2): 440-462. 2017.
    After having identified several shortcomings of the so-called ‘standard accounts’ of shared intentions, this paper will develop a novel framework for understanding such intentions. The framework to be advanced hinges on a notion of ‘expression’, as well as on the claim that shared intentions are expressed—that is, manifested, grasped, shaped and clarified—throughout the unfolding of the joint actions they animate, as well as in the various expressive activities and behaviours that accompany join…Read more
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    Deleuze and Pragmatism (edited book)
    Routledge. 2014.
    This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought, taking seriously the commitment to pluralism at the heart of both. Contributors explore in novel ways Deleuze’s explicit references to pragmatism, and examine the philosophical significance of a number of points at which Deleuze’s philosophy converges with, or diverges from, the work of leading pragmatists. The papers of the first part of the volume take as their focus Deleuze’…Read more
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    The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense
    Edinburgh University Press. 2011.
    An incisive analysis of Deleuze's philosophy of eventsSean Bowden shows how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanalysis along the way.This exciting new reading of Deleuze focuses firmly on his ap…Read more
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    1. Badiou’s Philosophical Heritage
    In Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1--15. 2012.
    In the wake of the numerous translations of Badiou’s works that have appeared in recent years, including the translation of the second volume of his major work, Logic of Worlds: Being and Event II, there has been a marked increase in interest in the philo- sophical underpinnings of his oeuvre. The papers brought together in this volume provide a range of incisive and critical engagements with Badiou’s philosophical heritage and the philosophical prob- lems his work engages, both directly and ind…Read more
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    3. The Set-Theoretical Nature of Badiou’s Ontology and Lautman’s Dialectic of Problematic Ideas
    In Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 39--58. 2012.
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    Chapter 9 Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon
    In AshleyVE Woodward, Alex Murray & Jon Roffe (eds.), Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 135-153. 2012.
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    10. Tragedy and Agency in Hegel and Deleuze
    In Craig Lundy & Daniela Voss (eds.), At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 212-228. 2015.
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    9 Jean Wahl
    In Graham Jones & Jon Roffe (eds.), Deleluze's Philosophical Lineage II, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 183-206. 2019.
  • Index
    In Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 271-276. 2012.
  • Reviews (review)
    with Karin Sellberg and Anna Powell
    In Claire Colebrook & Jami Weinstein (eds.), Deleuze and Gender: Deleuze Studies Volume 2: 2008, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 137-154. 2019.