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Do No Harm: the Extended Mind Model and the Problem of Delayed Damage

Post By James Williams 23rd November 2017

  Williams, J. SOPHIA (2016) 55: 71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-016-0515-3 This is my article critical of the harm that can come from certain models of the extended mind Abstract: I argue in this essay that there can be harm due to philosophy that is not directly expressed in violent imagery. The harm…

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Acinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film

Post By James Williams 25th October 2017

Acinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film Edited by Graham Jones, Ashley Woodward This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-François Lyotard’s major essays on film: ‘Acinema’, ‘The Unconscious as Mise-en-scène’, ‘Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema’ and ‘The Idea of a Sovereign Film’. Then, eight critical essays by…

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Gilles Deleuze and A. W. Moore: Nonhuman Constructivism or Anthropocentric Narrative in Metaphysics

Post By James Williams 25th July 2017

  ‘Gilles Deleuze and A. W. Moore: Nonhuman Constructivism or Anthropocentric Narrative in Metaphysics’ Philosophical Topics University of Arkansas Press Volume 43, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015 pp. 301-317 Earlier draft here  

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Barthes, Deleuze and Peirce: Pragmatism in Pursuit of the Sign

Post By James Williams 23rd October 2016

This is my chapter from Deleuze and Pragmatism edited by Simone Bignall, Sean Bowden, Paul Patton Abstract: In this chapter I will investigate three pragmatic approaches to the sign and three associated kinds of pragmatism. I aim to demonstrate that the disruptive nature of the encounter with the sign raises…

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James is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University.

 

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  • Won’t be fooled again? Ezekiel Di Paolo and Enactive Autopoiesis: Semiology of Autopoiesis (VII)
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  • Fantastic Pragmatism (published version)
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