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Literary Theory
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Philosophy of Mind
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Derrida on Rousseau: Deconstruction as Philosophy of Logic
In the lengthy reading of Rousseau which makes up the central portion of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatolog. there is much that should interest philosophers of logic (Derrida 1976). Just recently some writers — Gra...
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Modularity, Nativism, and Reference-Fixing: On Chomsky’s Internalist Assumptions
Noam Chomsky’s objections to the Kripke/Putnam externalist or causal theory of reference have been developed in various books and articles over the past two decades (see for instance Chomsky 1986, 1988, 1992, ...
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The Perceiver’s Share (2): Deconstructive Musicology and Cognitive Science
It is now more than twenty years since Joseph Kerman published his much-cited essay ‘How we got into analysis, and how to get out’ (Kerman 1980). Significantly enough, it appeared in the US journal Critical Inqui...
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Introduction
This volume brings together a number of chapters which I should happily describe as ‘inter-disciplinary’ if that term had not acquired — to my mind at least — certain negative or worrisome connotations. These ...
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The Limits of Whose Language?: Wittgenstein on Logic, Mathematics, and Science
I think that most likely in a century’s time — if humanity survives that long and still goes in for philosophical debate — there will be a great deal of headscratching among philosophers as to why one of their...
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The Perceiver’s Share (1): Realism, Scepticism, and Response-Dependence
There is a large recent literature on the topic of response-dependence, ranging over issues in ontology, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, ethics, aesthetics, and various other branches of th...
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Change, Conservation, and Crisis-Management in the Discourse of Analytic Philosophy
There has been much debate in recent years as to whether ‘analytic philosophy’ describes a distinctive tradition of thought or perhaps just a loosely related set of family-resemblance features. Here I put the ...
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Introduction: Approaching the Real
This book concerns the concept of the ‘Real’ in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Lacan proposed an ambitious, at times highly abstract, and always philosophically suggestive, reading of Freu...
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The Real and the Symbolic
Having explained how Lacan lays out the formation of the Real, conceived in its relationship to the Imaginary as an immanently produced, and irrecuperable, antagonism proper to identification, I will now outli...
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The Real and Psychopathology
Up to now, I have largely been concerned with articulating the complex, theoretical relationship between Lacan’s concept of the Real and the wider concerns of his metapsychology. In approaching these questions...
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Conclusion: Philosophical Psychoanalysis?
To conclude, I’d like to provide some thoughts on the meta-theoretical status of my argument. What, finally, is the ‘Real’, both in terms of its position within Lacan’s wider metapsychology and his theory of t...
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The Imaginary and the Real
In this chapter I will draw out in Lacan ‘s account of the Imaginary register, and in particular in his various engagements with the constitutivity of the image of the ‘other’, the beginnings of what he would ...
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Space and the Real
Up to now, I have been concerned with the ways in which Lacan, from the 1940s to the beginning of the 1960s, laid the ground for a psychoanalysis predicated on the Real. By showing the place of the Real in the...
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Lacanian Materialism?
In this chapter I aim to consolidate a number of the themes already broached in preceding chapters, particularly as they relate to Lacan’s writings on materiality and materialism, and as they point towards a t...
