Continental Philosophy of Science

[Edward theurj Berge]

In my internetting I caught this fish, a free e-book with the above title. There are chapters on Deleuze, Habermas, Foucault, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Irigaray and more. Free food for thought and maybe discussion?

[Edward theurj Berge]

For example, a few excerpts on dynamic systems from Chapter 17 on Deleuze by Todd May:

"Deleuze reads differential calculus not as a pragmatic matter of using differential equations to discover the slope of a particular function at a particular point. Rather, he sees in the differential an entire ontology of difference that can actualize itself into various functions and, consequently, specific curvilinear patterns" (247).

"In the later collaboration between Deleuze and Guttari, the writings of Ilya Prigogine become increasingly important. Prigogine, whose book La nouvelle alliance appeared in 1979, argues for a self-ordering of chemical components into patterns and relationships that cannot be read off from the previous state of chemical disarray.... It is not the introduction of some sort of ordering mechanism that makes the chemical clock appear. It is an inherent capability of the chemicals themselves for self-organization that gives rise to this phenomenon. It is as though there were virtual potentialities for communication or coordination contained in the chemicals themselves, or at least in their groupings, that are actualized under conditions that move away from equilibrium. As Manuel De Landa notes, in an echo of Deleuze’s treatment of Spinoza, ‘Matter, it turns out, can express itself in complex and creative ways, and our awareness of this must be incorporated into any future materialist philosophy'" (247).

[Balder]

Nice find! I look forward to checking it out...

[Edward theurj Berge]

Here's a better link.