Monthly Archives: August 2013

Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 4: Implications of the Badiou Thesis that “Leibniz’s Law” Has Been Refuted

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. Continuing the process of extracting and spelling out, in mini-steps, the theses operative in the thought of Alain Badiou: he tells us, still early on in his Being and Event (translated by Oliver Feltham (London and New York: Continuum … Continue reading →

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Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 3: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy and Ontology are “Separate”

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. I devoted my August 1, 2013, post on Badiou, “Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics,” to an analysis of the following passage from Being and Event (p. 3): The initial thesis of my enterprise—on the basis of … Continue reading →

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Vallicella, Philosophical Conversation, and Political Philosophy

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

In his August 3, 2013, post, “Philosophy, Debate, and Dialog: Can Philosophy Be Debated?,” Bill Vallicella, the “maverick philosopher,” answered the question posed in the post’s title in the negative negatively. He adds, “When real philosophy is done with others … Continue reading →

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Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 2: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. In my previous post, “Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event”: An Introduction (Or Perhaps Not),” I began the task of cautiously determining, as best I could, just what the theses constituting the philosophy of Alain Badiou might be, a task … Continue reading →

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