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In the previous column, I examined Badiou’s conceptions of ontology and science.  Here, I explain the specific claims of Badiou’s philosophy: the necessity of a transcendent “one” for social order, the appeal to mathematical...

Hadn't been planning on blogging over the Winter Festival, but I wrote this comment on another blog and then realised it meets the criteria for the Republic of Bloggers, so I've echoed it here in case anyone else might find it of interest. Dear Terence...

I know, a third post tonight but I write so little these days that I have to get it down when I do.  So a couple of weeks ago I was having a nice discussion with some good peeps on facebook and one of the participants said they don’t like...

Interview by Richard Marshall ‘In a telling formulation, Sellars suggests the Manifest Image is the medium in which humans first encountered themselves as humans, by which I think he means it is the manifestation of a kind of human self-consciousness...

THIS PAST DECEMBER, French philosopher Alain Badiou gave a series of three talks in Southern California that collectively address one of the foremost questions of his vast body of work: How do we think the impossible? More urgently, how do we think the...