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| The Force of the Virtual: Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy
ISBN: 9780816673568
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy; Deleuze Gilles 1925–1995;
Gilles Deleuze once claimed that OC modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs.OCO The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the philosopherOCOs interest in (and appeal to) OC the exact sciences.OCO In exploring the problematic relationship between the philosophy of Deleuze and science, the original essays gathered here examine how science functions in respect to DeleuzeOCOs concepts of time and space, how science accounts for processes of qualitative change, how science actively participates in the production of subjectivity, and how DeleuzeOCOs thinking engages neuroscience.All of the essays work through DeleuzeOCOs understanding of the virtualOCoa 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, Coll ge 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, Premi re Sup(r)rieure au Lyc(r)e Mass(r)na de |
