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    Deleuze, Spinoza and the Question of Reincarnation in the Mahāyāna Tradition
    In Duffy Simon B. (ed.), Deleuze and Buddhism, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 33-49. 2016.
    What I aim to develop in this paper is a secular foundation to the concept of reincarnation that is consistent with the different ways in which this concept is understood across a number of Buddhist traditions, drawing in particular upon the doctrinal understanding of reincarnation in the Mahāyāna or Madhyamaka tradition as presented in the work of Śāntideva and Nāgārjuna.
  • Jonathan Wolff
    with Miriam Cohen Christofidis, Roger Crisp, Avner de-Shalit, Ronald Dworkin, Alon Harel, John Harris, W. D. Hart, Dan Hausman, and Richard Hull
    In Kimberley Brownlee & Adam Cureton (eds.), Disability and Disadvantage, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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    Leibniz, Mathematics and the Monad
    In Sjoerd van Tuinen & Niamh McDonnell (eds.), Deleuze and The fold: a critical reader, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 89--111. 2010.
    The reconstruction of Leibniz’s metaphysics that Deleuze undertakes in The Fold provides a systematic account of the structure of Leibniz’s metaphysics in terms of its mathematical foundations. However, in doing so, Deleuze draws not only upon the mathematics developed by Leibniz—including the law of continuity as reflected in the calculus of infinite series and the infinitesimal calculus—but also upon developments in mathematics made by a number of Leibniz’s contemporaries—including Newton’s me…Read more
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    Index
    In Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 271-276. 2012.
  • Bibliography
    In Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 262-270. 2012.
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    This article examines the seventeenth-century debate between the Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza and the British scientist Robert Boyle, with a view to explicating what the twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze considers to be the difference between science and philosophy. The two main themes that are usually drawn from the correspondence of Boyle and Spinoza, and used to polarize the exchange, are the different views on scientific methodology and on the nature of matter that…Read more
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    This thesis sets out an argument in defence of moral objectivism. It takes Mackie as the critic of objectivism and it ends by proposing that the best defence of objectivism may be found in what I shall call Kantian intuitionism, which brings together elements of the intuitionism of Ross and a Kantian epistemology. The argument is fundamentally transcendental in form and it proceeds by first setting out what we intuitively believe, rejecting the sceptical attacks on those beliefs, and by then pro…Read more