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5Bergson's Philosophy of biology: virtuality, tendency and timeEdinburgh University Press. 2022.Tano S. Posteraro contributes to the increasingly serious study of Bergson's philosophy with a tight focus on Bergson's theory of evolution. He presents an alternative Bergson: not a phenomenologist whose central datum is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in time, but a systematic philosopher of biology with a robust, prescient and largely workable evolutionary programme.
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Notes on ContributorsIn Michael James Bennett & Tano S. Posteraro (eds.), Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 183-184. 2019.
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IndexIn Michael James Bennett & Tano S. Posteraro (eds.), Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 185-194. 2019.
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12Introduction: Historical Formations and Organic FormsIn Michael James Bennett & Tano S. Posteraro (eds.), Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-22. 2019.
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17Vitalism and the Problem of Individuation: Another Look at Bergson’s Élan VitalIn Christopher Donohue & Charles T. Wolfe (eds.), Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 9-25. 2022.Mikhail Bakhtin’s 1926 essay, “Contemporary Vitalism,” includes Bergson alongside Driesch in a short list of “the most published representatives of vitalism in Western Europe,” and, indeed, Bakhtin’s critique of Driesch is intended to undermine what he calls the “conceptual framework” of “contemporary vitalism” as a whole (The crisis of modernism: Bergson and the vitalist controversy. Eds. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1992, p 81). The conceptual fram…Read more
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6Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition by Keither Ansell-PearsonReview of Metaphysics 73 (1): 129-130. 2019.
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16Assemblage Theory and the Two Poles of Organic LifeDeleuze and Guattari Studies 14 (3): 402-432. 2020.This paper introduces Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage theory into the contemporary biological context. I begin by laying out at some length what I take to be the defining features of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of assemblage. I consider this to be a worthwhile endeavour in its own right, and so dedicate a large portion of this paper to producing a clear account of what it is that characterises an assemblage. Then I provide a reading of Deleuze and Guattari's critical conception of the organi…Read more
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22Bergson by Mark SinclairJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (1): 161-162. 2021.Mark Sinclair’s book is the first attempt at a comprehensive introduction to Bergson to be published in English in the last decade. Bergson begins with an intellectual biography, intended as “the most extensive... available in English”. It is. It is also among the most accomplished chapters of the book. Chapter 2, on time, initiates the book’s overview of the main topics of Bergson’s thinking and introduces its methodology. Sinclair systematically reconstructs Bergson’s positions instead of foll…Read more
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41Instinct, consciousness, lifeAngelaki 24 (5): 124-147. 2019.The question of Ruyer’s relationship to Bergson remains under-theorized. This article attempts to address that problem by introducing a little-known essay written by Ruyer on the topic of B...
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134Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2019.Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory gathers together contributions by many of the central theorists in Deleuze studies who have led the way in breaking down the boundaries between philosophical and biological research. They focus on the significance of Deleuze and Guattari’s engagements with evolutionary theory across the full range of their work, from the interpretation of Darwin in Difference and Repetition to the symbiotic alliances of wasp and orchid in A Thousand Plateaus. In this way, they exp…Read more
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1Painting as Stylized Vision: The Movement of Invisibility in?Eye and Mind?American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal 5 (2). 2013.
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32Scientific Discovery and Inference: Between the Lab and Field in BiologyTopoi 39 (4): 997-1009. 2020.An adequate account of how inferences and discoveries are made in modern biology is a difficult prospect for a philosopher. Do we really deduce conclusions from Darwin’s principles? Once Darwinian biology is integrated with molecular biology, can we deduce the organism from its DNA? What does induction look like in an era where data sets are often too large to be processed by a human being? What is the role of abductive explanatory claims that try to define the biological individual in relation …Read more
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33Organismic TemporalitySymposium 19 (2): 187-211. 2015.The topic of this paper is a theory of the organism as subject. It is an ascription of subjectivity to organic bodies. I restrict my analysis, in this presentation, to the question of temporality; particularly, to the way individual bodies produce out of their own metabolic activity the temporal field with which they interact. I structure this discussion by way of an elucidation of Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the larval subject as it emerges out of his Difference and Repetition. I begin with the…Read more
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78Do Not Just Do as I Do: Knowledge and Learning in the Image of ThoughtDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 9 (4): 455-474. 2015.What does it mean for philosophy to take seriously the chaos that haunts and threatens to undermine the fleetingly static formations that populate our epistemological landscapes? What does it mean to learn, think and know on a plane detached from transcendent truths, from recognition and representation, from the inverted image of falsity? We risk badly mangling our answers to these questions so long as we take for granted the orthodoxal image of thought and its conservative postulates. But criti…Read more
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159Painting as Stylized Vision: the Movement of Invisibility in “Eye and MindˮChiasmi International 15 343-359. 2013.This paper explores Merleau-Ponty’s mature philosophy of painting as it emerges out of his essay, “Eye and Mind.” It does so by briefly outlining the ontology implicit in this discussion of the phenomenology of painting, an ontology that finds a more explicit expression in a consideration of other works by Merleau-Ponty, namely, The Visible and the Invisible and Phenomenology of Perception. This is an ontology of style, perspective, becoming. Having briefly sketched this image of the world, the …Read more
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658Organismic Spatiality: Toward a Metaphysic of CompositionEnvironment and Planning D 32 (4): 739-752. 2014.
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2Painting as Stylized Vision: the Movement of Invisibility in “Eye and MindˮChiasmi International 15 343-359. 2013.This paper explores Merleau-Ponty’s mature philosophy of painting as it emerges out of his essay, “Eye and Mind.” It does so by briefly outlining the ontology implicit in this discussion of the phenomenology of painting, an ontology that finds a more explicit expression in a consideration of other works by Merleau-Ponty, namely, The Visible and the Invisible and Phenomenology of Perception. This is an ontology of style, perspective, becoming. Having briefly sketched this image of the world, the …Read more
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614On the Utility of Virtuality for Relating Abilities and AffordancesEcological Psychology 26 (4): 353-367. 2014.
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50Transcendental StupiditySymposium 20 (2): 1-21. 2016.The activity of thinking has been traditionally set against the risk of error and its concomitants: inconsistency, incoherence, the false. Philosophy pursues and protects the truth; such is its mission statement. But this is, for Deleuze, an inadequate conception that gives us the image of a thought so weak, so thin and impoverished, that everything happens as if from the outside. What, asks Deleuze, of stupidity? How are we to account for it transcendentally? In his attempt at an answer, Deleuz…Read more
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7Deleuze's Larval Subject and the Question of Bodily TImeSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale. forthcoming.This paper treats Deleuze's first synthesis of time and the corresponding concept of larval subjectivity by routing it through a biophilosophy of organism. I develop, out of my reading of Deleuze, a temporal concept of organismic subjectivity.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
General Philosophy of Science |