Crossing the boundaries between 'continental' and 'analytic' philosophical approaches, this book proposes a naturalistic revision of the mathematical ontology of Alain Badiou, establishing links with structuralist projects in the philosophy of science and mathematics.
"Naturalizing Badiou: Mathematical Ontology and Structural Realism offers a naturalist critique and revision of Alain Badiou's philosophy. It argues against some core elements of his systematic philosophy, considering them unacceptable for the naturalist philosopher. At the same…
The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, with reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, explores what human animality looks like. He shows that becoming animal means to stop t…
The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, with reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, explores what human animality looks like. He shows that becoming animal means to stop t…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 After Kant, Sellars, and Meillassoux: Back to Empirical Realism? -- 2 Sellars and Meillassoux: A Most Unlikely Encounter -- 3 Correlation, Speculation, and the Modal Kant-Sellars Thesis -- 4 Speculat…
Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging undifer the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to considifer a number of texts from the canon of analytic philosophy. The philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, in particular, ha…