Sean Bowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Bowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowden |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7137-2325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Encounters and the Differential Genesis of Thought in The Logic of Sense
Several themes treated in chapter 3 of Difference and Repetition are addressed at greater length in The Logic of Sense, published one year later. In particular, Deleuze's critique of ‘the privilege of designation’ and ‘the modality of solutions’, along with his positive claims about the relation between sense and problems, arguably summarise a number of analyses found in The Logic of Sense. However, despite the convergence between Difference and …
Assembling Agency: Expression, Action, and Ethics in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus
In response to several problems identified in the primary and secondary literature, this article advances an “expressive” conception of action and agency that (i) is consistent with the metaphysics of Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus , (ii) can underpin the ethical dimensions of this text, and (iii) meets some of the general requirements of a philosophy of action. This conception will be distinguished from standard theories in the philo…
Problematizing Problems
Problems in Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
An Anti-Positivist Conception of Problems: Deleuze, Bergson and the French Epistemological Tradition
This paper critically examines the relation between problems and the formation and development of concepts in Bergson’s work, as well as in Bachelard, Canguilhem and Deleuze. Building on work by Elie During, I argue that it is not only Bergson but also Deleuze who shares with the French epistemological tradition an “anti-positivist” conception of concept formation, founded upon the posing and solving of novel problems as opposed to the acquisitio…
The Intensive Expression of the Virtual: Revisiting the Relation of Expression in Difference and Repetition
In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze claims that it is in virtue of a relation of expression which holds between intensive processes of individuation and virtual Ideas that the former determines the latter to be actualised in concrete entities. He is, however, less than forthcoming in this book about exactly how we should understand the relation of expression. This article addresses itself to this lacuna. It clarifies five characteristic feature…
Introduction: The Virtual, the Actual and the Intensive: Contentions, Reflections and Interpretations
Introduction: The Virtual, the Actual and the Intensive: Contentions, Reflections and Interpretations
Willing the Event”: Expressive Agency in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense
A major problem threatens Deleuze’s project in The Logic of Sense. He makes an ontological distinction between events and substances, but he then collapses a crucial distinction between two kinds of events, namely, actions and mere occurrences. Indeed, whereas actions are commonly differentiated from mere occurrences with reference to their causal dependence on the intentions of their agents, Deleuze asserts a strict ontological distinction betwe…
The Priority of EventsDeleuze's Logic of Sense: Deleuze's Logic of Sense
Deleuze's Neo-Leibnizianism, Events and The Logic of Sense 's ‘Static Ontological Genesis’
In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation between events govern their ‘evental’ or ‘ideal play’, and ultimately underlie determined substances, that is, worldly individuals and persons. Leibniz calls these relations ‘compossibility’ and ‘incompossibility’. Deleuze calls them ‘convergence’ and ‘divergence’. This paper explores how Deleuze appropriates and extends a number of Leibnizian concepts in order to ground…
Christian Kerslake (2007), Deleuze and the Unconscious , London and New York: Continuum, 246 pages
Alain Badiou: From Ontology to Politics and Back
Deleuze et les Stoïciens: Une Logique De l'Événement
An Anti-Positivist Conception of Problems: Deleuze, Bergson and the French Epistemological Tradition
This paper critically examines the relation between problems and the formation and development of concepts in Bergson’s work, as well as in Bachelard, Canguilhem and Deleuze. Building on work by Elie During, I argue that it is not only Bergson but also Deleuze who shares with the French epistemological tradition an “anti-positivist” conception of concept formation, founded upon the posing and solving of novel problems as opposed to the acquisitio…
Problematizing Problems
Willing the Event”: Expressive Agency in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense
A major problem threatens Deleuze’s project in The Logic of Sense. He makes an ontological distinction between events and substances, but he then collapses a crucial distinction between two kinds of events, namely, actions and mere occurrences. Indeed, whereas actions are commonly differentiated from mere occurrences with reference to their causal dependence on the intentions of their agents, Deleuze asserts a strict ontological distinction betwe…
Alain Badiou: From Ontology to Politics and Back
Deleuze et les Stoïciens: Une Logique De l'Événement
Christian Kerslake (2007), Deleuze and the Unconscious , London and New York: Continuum, 246 pages
Deleuze's Neo-Leibnizianism, Events and The Logic of Sense 's ‘Static Ontological Genesis’
In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation between events govern their ‘evental’ or ‘ideal play’, and ultimately underlie determined substances, that is, worldly individuals and persons. Leibniz calls these relations ‘compossibility’ and ‘incompossibility’. Deleuze calls them ‘convergence’ and ‘divergence’. This paper explores how Deleuze appropriates and extends a number of Leibnizian concepts in order to ground…
The Priority of EventsDeleuze's Logic of Sense: Deleuze's Logic of Sense
Willing the Event”: Expressive Agency in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense
A major problem threatens Deleuze’s project in The Logic of Sense. He makes an ontological distinction between events and substances, but he then collapses a crucial distinction between two kinds of events, namely, actions and mere occurrences. Indeed, whereas actions are commonly differentiated from mere occurrences with reference to their causal dependence on the intentions of their agents, Deleuze asserts a strict ontological distinction betwe…
The Intensive Expression of the Virtual: Revisiting the Relation of Expression in Difference and Repetition
In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze claims that it is in virtue of a relation of expression which holds between intensive processes of individuation and virtual Ideas that the former determines the latter to be actualised in concrete entities. He is, however, less than forthcoming in this book about exactly how we should understand the relation of expression. This article addresses itself to this lacuna. It clarifies five characteristic feature…
Introduction: The Virtual, the Actual and the Intensive: Contentions, Reflections and Interpretations
Introduction: The Virtual, the Actual and the Intensive: Contentions, Reflections and Interpretations
Problematizing Problems
Problems in Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
An Anti-Positivist Conception of Problems: Deleuze, Bergson and the French Epistemological Tradition
This paper critically examines the relation between problems and the formation and development of concepts in Bergson’s work, as well as in Bachelard, Canguilhem and Deleuze. Building on work by Elie During, I argue that it is not only Bergson but also Deleuze who shares with the French epistemological tradition an “anti-positivist” conception of concept formation, founded upon the posing and solving of novel problems as opposed to the acquisitio…
Assembling Agency: Expression, Action, and Ethics in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus
In response to several problems identified in the primary and secondary literature, this article advances an “expressive” conception of action and agency that (i) is consistent with the metaphysics of Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus , (ii) can underpin the ethical dimensions of this text, and (iii) meets some of the general requirements of a philosophy of action. This conception will be distinguished from standard theories in the philo…
Encounters and the Differential Genesis of Thought in The Logic of Sense
Several themes treated in chapter 3 of Difference and Repetition are addressed at greater length in The Logic of Sense, published one year later. In particular, Deleuze's critique of ‘the privilege of designation’ and ‘the modality of solutions’, along with his positive claims about the relation between sense and problems, arguably summarise a number of analyses found in The Logic of Sense. However, despite the convergence between Difference and …
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