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Dr. Ray Brassier
Associate Professor of Philosophy
PhD 2001 Warwick, MA 1997 Warwick, BA 1995 North-London
Email: rb60[at]aub.edu.lb
Ext. 3149

Research Interests
Rationalism and naturalism; historical and eliminative materialism; philosophy of mind and cognitive science; Plato, Hegel, Sellars, Brandom, Badiou


Publications  
'Lived Experience and the Myth of the Given', Filozofski Vestnik, forthcoming.  

'The Reality of Abstraction' in Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, J. Mullarkey and A. P. Smith (eds.), Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2012.

‘The View from Nowhere’ in Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender, and Culture, Vol. 8, No.2, 2011.

'Editors' Introduction' (with Robin Mackay), Nick Land: Fanged Noumena: Selected Writings 1987-2007, R. Mackay and R. Brassier (eds.), Falmouth and New York: Urbanomic Sequence, 2011.

‘Badiou and Science’ in Alain Badiou: Key Concepts, A. J. Bartlett and J. Clemens (eds.), Chesholm: Acumen, 2010.

‘Concepts, Objects, Gems’ in Theory after ‘Theory’, D. Attridge and J. Elliot (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, 2010.

‘Concepts and Objects’ in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, L. Bryant, G. Harman, and N. Srnicek (eds.) Melbourne: re-press, 2010.

‘Genre is Obsolete’ in M. Attiarch and A. Iles (eds.) Noise and Capitalism, Donostia, San Sebastian: Arteleku Audiolab, 2009.

‘The Expression of Meaning in Deleuze’s Ontological Proposition’ in Pli - The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 19, 2008.

Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007

‘The Thanatosis of Enlightenment’ in The Origins and Ends of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychoanalysis, C. Kerslake and R. Brassier (eds.) Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007.

‘The Enigma of Realism: On Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude’ in Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development. Vol. II, 2007.

‘Le genre est obsolète’ in Multitudes 28, Hiver-Printemps 2007.

Presentation as Anti-Phenomenon in Alain Badiou’s Being and Event’, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, March 2006.

‘L’anti-phénomène: présentation et disparaitre’ in Écrits autours de la pensée d'Alain Badiou, A. Badiou, B. Besana and O. Feltham (eds.) Paris: l’Harmattan, 2006.

‘Badiou’s Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics’ in Angelaki. Vol. 10, No. 2, 2005.

‘Liquider l’homme une fois pour toutes’ in Théorie-rebellion. Un ultimatum, G. Grelet (ed.), Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005.

‘Nihil Unbound: Remarks on Subtractive Ontology and Thinking Capitalism’ in Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, P. Hallward (ed.) London and New York: Continuum, 2004.

Alain Badiou: Theoretical Writings (edited and translated with Alberto Toscano), London and New York: Continuum, 2004.

‘Solar Catastrophe: Lyotard, Freud, and the Death-Drive’, Philosophy Today, Vol. 47, Winter 2003.

‘Axiomatic Heresy: The Non-Philosophy of François Laruelle’ in Radical Philosophy 121, Sept/Oct 2003.

 
 
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