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Main Seminar Program

Monday, July 2 – Friday, July 6, 2018

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(Participants’ Conference Program to be posted shortly)

 

 

Monday, July 2

 

9:30-10:00: Introductory Remarks

 

10:00-1:00: James Williams

 

  1. James Williams, A Process Philosophy of Signs (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) Chapter 2.

  2. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953) number 423, page, 128.

  3. Jonathan Bennett, ‘What Events Are’ http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/jfb/events.pdf

 

3:00-6:00: Sean Bowden: Bodies, Language and Sense

 

  1. Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester with Charles Stivale, ed. Constantin V. Boundas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), Series 2-3, 5-6, 9-10, 14-17, 23-24, 26.

 

Tuesday, July 3

 

10:00-1:00: James Williams

 

  1. James Williams A Process Philosophy of Signs, Chapter 8.

  2. Jean-François Lyotard, Le différend (Paris: Minuit, 1983) pp 232-246 [Lyotard is discussing Kant here and a good reference point would be Kant ‘The Contest of Faculties’ in Political Writings, Reiss, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1970) pp 176-90. See also Lyotard ‘The Phrase-Affect’ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071773.2001.11007343

 

 

3:00-6:00: Anna Longo: French Rationalism: History and Event

 

  1. Martial Gueroult, “The History of Philosophy as a Philosophical problem”, in The Monist, Vol. 53, No. 4, Philosophy of the History of Philosophy (October, 1969), pp. 563-587.

  2. Jean Cavaillès and Albert Lautman, “Mathematical Thought”, record of the 1939 meeting at Société françaises de philosophie, English translation by Robin MacKay on Urbanomic website: https://www.urbanomic.com/document/mathematical-thought/

  3. Gaston Bachelard, The New Scientific Spirit, Translated by Arthur Goldman, Boston: Beacon Press, 1985, Introduction, “The Essential Complexity of the Philosophy of Sciences”, p. 1-18 and Chapter VI “Non-Cartesian Epistemology”, p. 171-177.

 

   Supplementary Readings:

  1. Deleuze, “Gueroult’s General Method for Spinoza”, in Desert Islands and Other Texts, Los Angeles : Semiotext(s), 2004.

  2. Jean Petitot, “Refaire le « Timée » : Introduction à la philosophie mathématique d’Albert Lautman’, Rev. Hist. Sci. 1987, English Translation Urbanomic website: https://www.urbanomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Urbanomic_Document_UFD016.pdf

 

Wednesday, July 4

 

10:00-1:00: Sean Bowden: Encounters, Problems and the Genesis of Sense-Events

 

  1. Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, Series 9.

  2. Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (London: Athlone, 1994), Chapter 3.

  3. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (London and New York: Verso, 1994), Chapter 1.

  4. Gaston Bachelard, “Corrationalism and the problematic,” trans. Mary Tiles, Radical Philosophy 173 (2012): 27-32.

  5. Patrice Maniglier, “What is a problematic?” Radical Philosophy 173 (2012): 21-23.

 

   Supplementary Reading:

  1. Sean Bowden, “An Anti-Positivist Conception of Problems: Deleuze, Bergson and the French Epistemological Tradition,” Angelaki 23:2 (2018): 45-63.

 

3:00-6:00: Markus Gabriel

 

            Readings TBA

 

Thursday, July 5

 

10:00-1:00: Anna Longo: From French Rationalism to Genetic Structuralism

 

  1. Gilles Châtelet, Figuring Space : Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics, Dordrecht: Springer 2000, Part three, “The Force of Ambiguity: Dialectical balances”, pp. 73 – 82; 88 – 94.

  2. Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, London: The Athalone Press, 1993, Chapter 6, “What is an event?”, pp. 76-84.

  3. René Thom, “At the Boundaries of Man's Power: Play”, in SubStance, Vol. 8, No. 4, Issue 25 (1979), pp. 11-19 ; “Stop Chance! Silence Noise!”, in SubStance, Vol. 12, No. 3, Issue 40: Determinism (1983), pp. 11-21.

 

3:00-6:00: James Williams

 

  1. James Williams A Process Philosophy of Signs, Chapter 6.

  2. Roland Barthes Elements of Semiology, New York: Hill and Wang, 1986. https://monoskop.org/images/2/2c/Barthes_Roland_Elements_of_Semiology_1977.pdf [Version originale: https://www.persee.fr/issue/comm_0588-8018_1964_num_4_1]

 

Friday, July 6

 

10:00-1:00: Anna Longo: The Event in contemporary Physics, Biology and Finance

 

  1. Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time, New York: Riverhead Books 2018, pp. 93 – 128, 192-204.

  2. Giuseppe Longo, “How Future Depends on Past Histories and Rare Events in Systems of Life,  Foundations of Science, 2017, http://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo/files/biolog-observ-history-future.pdf

  3. Elie Ayache, “A formal Deduction of the Market”, in Collapse : Casino Real, vol. VIII, 2014, pp. 959 -998.

 

   Supplementary Reading: 

  1. R. Koppl , S. Kauffman, G. Longo, “Economics for a creative world”, in Journal of Institutional Economics, Vol. 11, Issue 01, pp 1 - 31, March 2015 http://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo/files/EconoCreative-jan2014web.pdf

 

3:00-6:00: Sean Bowden: Actions, Agency and Ethics

 

  1. Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 70-96.

  2. Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, Series 20, 21, 22, 25, 29.

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   Supplementary reading: 

  1. ‘“Becoming-Equal to the Act”: The Temporality of Action and Agential Responsibility’, in Simone Bignall and Rosi Braidotti (eds),Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze (London: Roman & Littlefield International, forthcoming – available on request).

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