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Addresses societal challenges associated with the AnthropoceneExplains and illustrates the function of the atheist machine" in Deleuze's philosophyBrings Deleuzian philosophy into dialogue with developments in computational modeling and social simulation that complement and support his arguments for a metaphysics of immanenceShows the relevance of empirical findings in the bio-cultural sciences of religion for Deleuze's understanding and use of the concept of atheismIn What is Philosophy? Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but "the philosopher's serenity and philosophy's achievement." One of Shults' main goals in this book is to illustrate the uses and effects of an "atheist machine" throughout Deleuze's work, demonstrating its central role in his philosophical achievements in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.Shults also brings Deleuze's philosophy into dialogue with recent advances in computational social simulation, especially multi-agent artificial intelligence modelling. The successful development and deployment of such methodologies lend plausibility to Deleuze's radical philosophy of immanence, which in turn provides the former with more adequate metaphysical moorings. All of this is framed in the context of empirical findings and theoretical developments in the scientific study of religion, which point toward the potentially creative role of atheist assemblages in addressing societal challenges associated with the Anthropocene."

PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.

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Dieu existe-t-il ?", question religieuse par excellence, est sans doute également la première question fondamentale de la métaphysique. Peut-on savoir si Dieu existe au moyen de notre intelligence ? Le monde existe, mais peut-on convenir qu'il a pour cause un infini ? Et quelle est alors la voie de passage du fini à l'infini ? Le sens est la figure de l'Etre : c'est là le fait primaire et fondamental du réel.

Philosophy - Metaphysics - Ontology

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L'être se présente comme une valeur fondamentale du réel et de la connaissance. Quant à l'unité, elle est évidemment relation à l'être. Pas d'être sans unité, pas d'unité sans être. D'où cette conséquence majeure que rien n'est intelligible, ontologiquement parlant, sans l'unité. L'exigence de la vérité, moteur de la recherche, demeure, mais c'est l'unité qui s'érige, par sa certitude et son universalité, en principe inconditionné.

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The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above sciences in terms of an organic world view, instead of selecting one theory as the paradigm and reducing all others to it. Because Alfred North Whitehead is so crucial to modern philosophy, The Metaphysics of Experience plays an important role in making Process and Reality accessible to a wider readership.

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

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Explores how we can think with – as opposed to thinking about – the history of philosophyOutlines a new historico-philosophical methodology termed reflective historical engagementEmploys this methodology in forging dramatic and moving reinterpretations of the recent history of philosophyOffers original analyses of the works of Hegel, Whitehead, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and other foundational figures, alongside the many forgotten or marginalized historical figures who have helped shape contemporary philosophyWhat is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy’s history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight?George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues.

Philosophy --- PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics. --- Historiography.