Dr Simon Duffy
ARC Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Biographical Information
Doctor of Philosophy
2003
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia
thesis title: The logic of expression: quality,
quantity and intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze.
Supervisor: Professor Moira Gatens
Examination Committee:
Professor Etienne Balibar, Universite de Paris X-Nanterre, France
Professor Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Daniel W. Smith, University of Purdue, Indiana, USA
Master of Philosophy
1999
Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (Mention Très Bien)
Universite de Paris X-Nanterre, France
thesis title: Le Spinoza de Deleuze.
Supervisor: Professor Etienne Balibar
Bachelor of Arts (Honours First Class)
1996
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia
Areas of Specialisation
Early modern philosophy, European philosophy (French), history and philosophy of science
Areas of Competence
Ethics, modern European philosophy (German)
Publications
Books
2006. The logic of expression: quality, quantity and intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Reviews: European Journal of Philosophy 17, no .2, (2009): 341-45 [Phillip Turetzky]
2006 (ed.). Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference, Manchester: Clinamen Press.
Reviews: Australasian Journal
of Philosophy 86, no. 2 (2008): 332-336 [Colin
McLarty];
Cahiers Critiques de Philosophie
3 (2007): 224-229 [Alexis de Saint-Ours].
Journal Articles
2009. ‘Deleuze, Leibniz and projective geometry in the Fold,’
Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14, no. 3 (2009).
[forthcoming]
2009. ‘The role of mathematics in Deleuze’s critical engagement with Hegel,’ International Journal of Philosophical Studies 17, no. 4 (2009). [forthcoming]
2009. ‘Spinoza today: the current state of Spinoza scholarship,’ Intellectual History Review 19, no. 1 (2009): 111-132.
2006. ‘The differential point of view of the infinitesimal calculus in Spinoza, Leibniz and Deleuze,’ Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 37, no. 3 (2006): 286-307.
2006. ‘The difference between science and philosophy: the Spinoza-Boyle controversy revisited,’ Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 29, no. 2 (2006): 115-138.
2004. ‘Schizo-Math. The logic of different/ciation and the philosophy of difference,’ Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9, no. 3 (2004): 199-215.
2004. ‘The Logic of Expression in Deleuze’s Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza. A strategy of engagement,’ International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12, no. 1 (2004): 47-60.
Book Chapters
2010. ‘French and Italian Spinozism,’ History of Continental Philosopy, Vol. 7, ed. Rosi Braidotti, London: Acumen, 2010. [forthcoming]
2010. ‘Leibniz, Mathematics and the Monad,’ Deleuze and The Fold. A Critical Reader. eds Niamh McDonnell and Sjoerd van Tuinen, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. [forthcoming]
2009. ‘The role of “joyful passions” in Spinoza’s theory of relations,’ Spinoza Now, eds Dimitris Vardoulakis, Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2009. [in press]
2009. ‘Deleuze and the Mathematical Philosophy of Albert Lautman,’ Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage, eds Graham Jones, Jon Roffe, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
2007. ‘The Ethical View of Spinoza’s theory of relations,’ Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life, eds B. Bolt, F. Colman, G. Jones, A. Woodward, Newcastle upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
2006. ‘Deleuze and Mathematics,’ Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference, ed. Simon Duffy, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2006.
2006. ‘The Mathematics of Deleuze’s differential logic and metaphysics,’ Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference, ed. Simon Duffy, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2006.
Translations (Books)
2011. Lautman, Albert. Mathematics, Ideas and the physical real. London: Continuum [Les mathématiques, les idées et le réel physique. Paris: Vrin, 2006.][forthcoming]
Translations
2009. [with Paul Patton] Matheron, Alexandre. ‘Spinoza and Sexuality,’ Feminist Interpretations of Benedict de Spinoza, ed. Moira Gatens, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. [‘Spinoza et la sexualité,’ Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana 8, no. 4 (1977): 436-57].
2006. Badiou, Alain. ‘Mathematics and Philosophy,’ Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference, ed. Simon Duffy, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2006. [‘Philosophie et mathématiques,’ 2003].
2006. Châtelet, Gilles. ‘Interlacing the singularity, the diagram and the metaphor,’ Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference, ed. Simon Duffy, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2006. [L’entrelacement de la singularité, du diagramme et de la métaphore, 1999.]
2006. [with Stephen W. Sawyer] Alunni, Charles. ‘Continental Genealogies. Mathematical confrontations in Albert Lautman and Gaston Bachelard,’ Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference, ed. Simon Duffy, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2006.
2003. Deleuze, Gilles. ‘Spinoza: Ontology - Ethics’, sur Spinoza, 21 December 1980, ed. Timothy S. Murphy, URL <http://www.webdeleuze.com> (2003).
2003. Deleuze, Gilles. ‘Spinoza’, sur Spinoza, 20 January 1981, ed. Timothy S. Murphy, URL <http://www.webdeleuze.com> (2003).
2003. Deleuze, Gilles. ‘The actual infinite-eternal, the logic of relations’, sur Spinoza, 10 March 1981, ed. Timothy S. Murphy, URL <http://www.webdeleuze.com> (2003).
2002. Deleuze, Gilles. ‘Power and Classical natural right’, sur Spinoza, 09 December 1980, ed. Timothy S. Murphy, URL <http://www.webdeleuze.com> (2002).
2002. Deleuze, Gilles. ‘Spinoza’, sur Spinoza, 12 December 1980, ed. Timothy S. Murphy, URL <http://www.webdeleuze.com> (2002).
Conference Papers (Keynote)
2010. ‘The question of Deleuze’s Neo-Leibnizianism,’ The Third International Deleuze Studies Conference, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 12-14 July, 2010.
2008. ‘The metaphysics of openness in Deleuze's approach to science and mathematics,’ Deleuze2008: Deleuze in the Open, Stavanger: European Capital of Culture, Norway, 7-8 November, 2008.
Conference Papers (Invited)
2009. ‘Overcoming the limits of Leibniz's metaphysics: Deleuze on in/compossibility,’ The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Cologne, Germany, 8-10 August, 2009.
2009. ‘Deleuze’s differential account of Leibniz’s theory of compossibility,’ Department of Philosophy Seminars, University of Memphis, USA, 23 January 2009.
2008. ‘Deleuze and Lautman on mathematics as a model,’ The First International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cardiff University, UK, 11-13 August, 2008.
2008. ‘Mathematics as model in Deleuze's philosophy of difference,’ Analytic versus Continental?Rapprochement? A mini-conference, La Trobe University, 11-13 July, 2008.
2007. ‘Deleuze and the mathematical philosophy of Albert Lautman,’ Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Research Seminars, Middlesex University, UK, 7 June 2007.
2006. ‘The role of “joyful passions” in Spinoza’s theory of relations,’ Wandering with Spinoza, Victorian College of the Arts, 13-15 September 2006.
2005. ‘The differential point of view of the infinitesimal
calculus in Spinoza, Leibniz and Deleuze,’ ‘Spinoza and the Infinite’,
Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy Workshop, University of
Melbourne, 9 December 2005.
Conference Papers (Selected)
2009. ‘Deleuze and Lautman’s Philosophy of Mathematical Genesis,’ New French Thought Conference, Villanova University, USA, 3-4 April 2009.
2006. ‘The Ethical View of Spinoza’s theory of relations,’
Koncepte der Macht: Spinoza und die Moderne, Berlin-Brandenburgische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany, 29 September - 1 October 2006.
Conference Papers
2009. ‘Deleuze and Lautman’s dialectics of mathematics,’ Australian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, July 2009.
2006. ‘The Ethical View of Spinoza’s theory of relations,’ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Deakin University, July 2006.
2005. ‘Deleuze and Mathematics,’ Virtual Mathematics
mini-conference, University of Queensland, 20 June 2005.
‘The Mathematics of Deleuze's differential logic and metaphysics,’
Virtual Mathematics mini-conference, University of Queensland, 20 June
2005.
2004. ‘Deleuze and Hegel on Spinoza's Letter XII and “the problem of the infinite”,’ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Macquarie University, December, 2004.
2003. ‘The logic of different/ciation and the philosophy of difference,’ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, University of Queensland, 2003.
2003. ‘The logic of Expression in Deleuze’s Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza,’ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, University of Melbourne, 2002.
2000. ‘From Scotist Univocity to Spinozist Immanence: intensive quantity in Hegel and Deleuze,’ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, University of New South Wales, 2000.
Conferences Organised
2005. Virtual Mathematics mini-conference, University of Queensland, 20 June 2005. [link]
2005. Chair and organiser, Virtual Mathematics Panel, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference,
University of New South Wales, 17 June 2005. [link]