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Lucretius: Our Contemporary (Video Lecture at University of Warwick)
Here is the video recording of a lecture I recently gave at University of Warwick as part of The Center for Post-Kantian European Philosophy. University of Warwick, 3 November 2020
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LUCRETIUS: NATURE UNFOUNDED (A Call for Papers)
K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts Université de Lille, Laboratoire Cecille https://revue-k.univ-lille.fr/ Call for papers YEAR IV 2021 (1), 6 LUCRETIUS: NATURE UNFOUNDED Bench’io sappia che obblio preme chi troppo all’età propria increbbe K. proposes an issue dedicated to the figure and thought of Titus Lucretius Carus because thinking about nature appears to be…
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Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Audiobook)
My book on Marx is now available for download at Audible. Marx in Motion A New Materialist Marxism By: Thomas Nail Narrated by: Paul Boehmer Length: 12 hrs Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 10-27-20 Language: English Publisher: Tantor Audio Publisher’s Summary Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since…
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Preface to the Korean Translation of Being and Motion
Why has something as simple as movement posed such enormous difficulties for philosophers and scientists? Why have the greatest minds of civilization dedicated their lives to discovering something genuinely immobile that would explain motion? Aristotle’s “unmoved mover,” Archimedes’ fixed “point,” Descartes’ “unmoveable” certainty, Newton’s divine clockmaker, and even Einstein’s idea of a block universe were…
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The Material Unconscious: Against Utilitarianism
There is nothing in the mind that has not first been in the senses and nothing in the senses that has not already been in nature. This is the bold argument at the heart of Lucretius’ radical naturalism. The consequences of this simple idea are profound and have several ethical implications. The argument of this…
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Time Will Tell: An Interview with Thomas Nail
October 2, 2020 Here is an interview I did with Chris Rawls for the American Philosophical Association blog here as part of a series on the philosophy of time. You can download the article here. Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of seven books; his most…
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“Thomas Nail’s Magnum Opus, Being and Motion,” By Achim Szepanski
Archim Szepanski from Non Copyriot has written a nice summary and review of my book, Being and Motion for German readers here. “Sein Magnum Opus „Being and Motion“ beginnt Thomas Nail mit dem lapidaren Satz “Wir leben im Zeitalter der Bewegung.“ Als Anhaltspunkte dienen für Nail, dass wir unter sozialen Gesichtspunkten heute riesige migrantische Bewegungen…
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New Materialist Aesthetics and Theory of the Image
Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Milla Tiainen & Adrian Mróz have edited a special issue of The Journal of Polish Aesthetics titled, “New Materialism. The mattering of the arts, crafts, and aesthetics.” There are several interesting articles and book reviews of the first two monographs written on new materialist aesthetics: Ways of Following: Art, Materiality, Collaboration, by Katve-Kaisa…
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Time Will Tell: A Series on the Philosophy of Time | Blog of the APA
The Blog of the APA is happy to announce “Time Will Tell,” a series of interviews about the philosophy of time. The interviews were conducted by Dr. Chris Rawls of Roger Williams University. To introduce the series, Rawls talked with the Blog about how her interest in temporality developed and where she would like studies of time…
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What is Object Oriented Ontology? What is Actor Network Theory? What is the Philosophy of Movement?
What is an object? One interesting way to avoid the problem of getting the subject and object back together to secure knoweldge is by not introducing the division in the first place. What if everything was only objects? We could then think of the subject as a highly composite type of object. Before proposing my…
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