Force of the Virtual : Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy.
Başlık:
Force of the Virtual : Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy.
Yazar:
Gaffney, Peter.
ISBN:
9780816673568
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (404 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Science in the Gap -- I. The Virtual in Time and Space -- 1. The Insistence of the Virtual in Science and the History of Philosophy -- 2. Superposing Images: Deleuze and the Virtual after Bergson's Critique of Science -- 3. The Intense Space(s) of Gilles Deleuze -- II. Science and Process -- 4. Interstitial Life: Remarks on Causality and Purpose in Biology -- 5. Digital Ontology and Example -- 6. Virtual Architecture -- III. Science and Subjectivity -- 7. The Subject of Chaos -- 8. Elemental Complexity and Relational Vitality: The Relevance of Nomadic Thought for Contemporary Science -- 9. Numbers and Fractals: Neuroaesthetics and the Scientific Subject -- IV. Science and the Brain -- 10. The Image of Thought and the Sciences of the Brain after What Is Philosophy? -- 11. Deleuze, Guattari, and Neuroscience -- 12. Mammalian Mathematicians -- Afterword. The Metaphysics of Science: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Özet:
Gilles Deleuze once claimed that "modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs." The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the philosopher's interest in (and appeal to) "the exact sciences." In exploring the problematic relationship between the philosophy of Deleuze and science, the original essays gathered here examine how science functions in respect to Deleuze's concepts of time and space, how science accounts for processes of qualitative change, how science actively participates in the production of subjectivity, and how Deleuze's thinking engages neuroscience.All of the essays work through Deleuze's understanding of the virtual-a force of qualitative change that is ontologically primary to the exact, measurable relations that can be found in and among the objects of science. By adopting such a methodology, this collection generates significant new insights, especially regarding the notion of scientific laws, and compels the rethinking of such ideas as reproducibility, the unity of science, and the scientific observer.Contributors: Manola Antonioli, Collège International de Philosophie (Paris); Clark Bailey; Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht U; Manuel DeLanda, U of Pennsylvania; Aden Evens, Dartmouth U; Gregory Flaxman, U of North Carolina; Thomas Kelso; Andrew Murphie, U of New South Wales; Patricia Pisters, U of Amsterdam; Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue U; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Arnaud Villani, Première Supérieure au Lycée Masséna de Nice.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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