DIFFERENCE THINKERS Info good until 2010 MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF DIFFERENCE DANIEL ATHEARN Full Member SSD Areas of interest: Inquiry into the prospects for a recovery of natural philosophy, the centrality of difference to thought, to physical science and to ontology; sameness or identity (of being) within and as difference; difference as key to a post-classical physical ontology; process of transition; epistemology and philosophy of science. Main difference-related publications: Fruits of Time: Nature and the Unfolding of Difference(Universal Publishers, 2003). Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation (SUNY Press, Albany, 1994). Articles: 'Whitehead as Natural Philosopher: Anachronism or Visionary?' Process Studies, (volume 26/3-4, 1997). ‘Prospects for Physical Ontology: A Philosopher’s Assessment’, Physics Essays, (volume 10 number 4, December,1997). JEFFREY BELL Full Member SSD For additional information visit bell-homepagel Areas of interest: Deleuze, Nietzsche, philosophy of creativity/becoming, and intellectual history especially the Scottish Enlightenment. Main difference-related publications: Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference (Toronto: TUP, 2006). "Immanence/Transcendence: Deleuze and Voegelin on the Conditions for Political Order" in Eric Voegelin's Dialogue with the Postmoderns: Searching for Foundations, edited by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil Eubanks (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004), pp. 93-120. The Problem of Difference (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Articles: "Philosophizing the Double-Bind: Deleuze reads Nietzsche" (1995) Philosophy Today, Volume 39(4). CONSTANTIN BOUNDAS Honorary Member SSD For additional information visit: boundas-homepage Areas of interest: With respect to the dissemination and discussion of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy in North America, he is considered to be one of the few pioneers. 20th century philosophy. Main difference-related publications: The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophies, General Editor. (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming, Summer 2007). Deleuze and Philosophy, ed. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006). Theatrum Philosophicum. A Collection of Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze. With Dorothea Olkowski (eds.) ( New York and London: Routledge, 1994). The Deleuze Reader, ed. with an introduction. (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1993). Articles: “Gilles Deleuze: Experimenting with Intensities”. Special Issue on Gilles Deleuze. Guest Editor. Symposium 10: 1 (Spring 2006). “An Ontology of Intensities,” Epoche, 7:1 (Fall 2002). “Gift, Theft, Apology.” Guest Editor. Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 6:3 (August 2001). “Rhizomatics, Genealogy, Deconstruction”. Guest Editor.Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 5:2 (August 2000). “Deleuze on Time and Memory”, Antithesis 8:2 (1997). Memorial Issue on Gilles Deleuze. Guest Editor. Man and World, 29:3 (July 1996). Essays: “Unfolding the Deleuzian Fold,” Gilles Deleuze’s Fold: A Critical Reader ed. Darren Ambrose and Siobhan McKeown, London: Palgrave, forthcoming “Lignes de fuite and Holzwegen,” Graham Jones and Jon Roffe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming “Gilles Deleuze: A Touch of Decisionism and an Excess of Out-Worldliness,” Review Essay. The Deleuze Studies, 1: 2, June 2007, forthcoming. “Les stratégies différentielles de la pensée deleuzienne” dans une ouvrage collaborative dirigée par Alain Beaulieu. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006. Review Essay: “Arnaud Villani and Robert Sasso eds. Le Vocabulaire de Gilles Deleuze; François Zourabichvili, Le vocabulaire de Deleuze; Charles Stivale, ed. Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts” Symposium Fall 2005. “The Art of begetting Monsters: The Unnatural Nuptials of Deleuze and Kant,” Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy, ed. Stephen H. Daniel. Evanston: Nortwestern University Press, 2006, 254-80. “Intensity,” “Individuation,” “Spinoza and Ethics of Joy,” “Virtual/Virtuality,” The Deleuze Dictionary, Adrian Parr, ed. Edingburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005 “Deleuze-Bergson: An Ontology of the Virtual”, Gilles Deleuze: Critical Reader, ed. by Paul Patton. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, pp. 51-77. “Foreclosure of the Other: From Sartre to Deleuze”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Special Issue on Gilles Deleuze. Ed. by C.V. Boundas. pp. 32- 43. Reprinted in Sartre and Existentialism, ed. by William L. McBride. New York: Garland, 1996, vol. 8, 338-49. Conferences: “Gilles Deleuze and the Problem of Freedom,” Guest Speaker, Plenary Session, International Conference “Text and Image,” University of South Carolina, April 5-8, 2007. International Conference, “Gilles Deleuze:Experimenting with Intensities/L’Expérience aux intensités.” Trent University. May 2004. Organizer. International Conference on “Rhizomatics, Genealogy and Deconstruction”, Trent University, May 1999. Organizer. Panel organizer, chair and discussant: “The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 10-13, 1997. Lexington, Kentucky. “After Deleuze”, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, October 10, 1996. “Gadamer’s and Deleuze’s To and Fro: The Concept of Play”, Dorothy Korchok Colloquium, Brock University, November 1993. International Conference on “Gilles Deleuze. Pluralism: Theory and Practice”. Trent University, May 1992. Organizer. “Spinoza’s Influence on Deleuze”, British Society for Phenomenology, Oxford, England, April 12-14, 1991. “Gilles Deleuze’s Theory of Difference and the Seventh Hypothesis of Plato’s Parmenides”. Philosophy Department, University of Toronto, January 1986. JOHN CAPUTO Honorary Member SSD for additional information visit: caputo-homepage Areas of interest: Radical hermeneutics, the radical affirmation of an unforeseeable ethical and political future and of the possibility of being otherwise, the space between deconstruction and religion. Main difference-related publications: God, the Gift and Postmodernism, eds. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999) Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, (Edited with a Commentary by John D. Caputo), (New York: Fordham Unviersity Press, 1997). God, the Gift and Postmodernism, (eds. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon), (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997). Foucault and the Critique of Institutions (with Mark Yount) (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993). Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project, Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). COSTAS CONSTANTINOU Full Member SSD for additional information visit: constantinou-homepage Areas of interest: Diplomacy and mediation; politics of language; ethno-religious hybridities; history of social and political thought. Main difference-related publications: States of Political Discourse: Words, Regimes, Seditions (Routledge: New International Relations series, 2004) On the Way to Diplomacy (Minnesota University Press: Borderlines series, 1996). Articles: "Poetics of Security", Alternatives (25:3, July-Sept 2000). MARK CURRIE Full Member SSD For additional information visit: currie-homepage Areas of interest: Difference, cultural geography and postmodernism; equivalence and universality; deconstruction and critical authority. Main difference-related publications: Difference, The New Critical Idiom. (London and New York, Routledge, 2004). Postmodern Narrative Theory, Transitions. (London, Macmillan/Palgrave, 1998). MIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI Full Member SSD Areas of interest: Heideggerian ontico-ontological difference as the 'matter' of philosophy, to its Derridian response, to the way in which Deleuze takes it up, extends it, and provides a new interpretation of it; difference as the pivotal concept around which philosophy can be constructed as a non-dogmatic, non-representational ontology; Bergson and the later Merleau-Ponty. Main difference-related publications: Truth and Genesis: Philosophy As Differential Ontology (Studies in Continental Thought).(Indiana University Press, 2004). Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, (Indiana University Press, 2003). Articles: 'Toward a Phenomenology of Difference?', Research in Phenomenology xxx, 2000. JESUS DE GARAY SUAREZ-LLANOS Full member SSD Areas of interest: Difference in Aristotle and in other ancient and medieval thinkers (Philo, Plotin, Eckhart) in addition to Heidegger and others (for example Vattimo, Foucault or Blumenberg); difference between cultures, especially the difference between the three main cultures of the medieval West (Islam, Judaism and latin Christianism); research focusing on the several interpretations on the aristotelian dialectics and rhetoric. Main difference-related publications: El juego (The Play) (Madrid, 1994). Diferencia y libertad (Differecne and Freedom) (Rialp, 1992). Los sentidos de la forma en Aristóteles (The Several Senses of Form in Aristotle) (Eunsa, 1987). MARTIN DILLON Full Member SSD - passed away March 10, 2005 Areas of interest: Difference and deconstruction, Merleau Ponty. Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, Philosophy and Literature, History