There's a claim I laid out from Deleuze in the episode that I wanted to bring up for explicit discussion. I think it's provocative and deserves some thought but is almost certainly wrong. It's about the picture of science as producing concepts and not propositions. I gave the example of Descartes's Cogito, and laid out a few of the apparent claims involved in that (the Continue Reading …
Topic for #76: Deleuze/Guattari on What Philosophy Is
On Sunday, 4/21/13, we recorded our discussion on chapters 1-3 of What Is Philosophy? (1991). Go listen to the episode. Gilles Deleuze was a recent French philosopher (he died in 1995) who has probably been requested as much or more than any other figure by our listeners. His style is highly idiosyncratic: difficult somewhat in the manner of the other recent French figures Continue Reading …