Catherine Malabou and Synaptic PersonhoodChristopher Watkin (Monash University)
April 1, 2014, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
European Philosophy and the History of Ideas Research Group (EPHI), Deakin University
C2.05
221 Burwood Highway
Melbourne 3125
Australia
Sponsor(s):
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Centre for Citizenship and Globalization
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Deakin University
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ABSTRACT: This paper explores and critiques the way in which French philosopher Catherine Malabou understands personhood. It takes a broadly critical view of Malabou’s argument that contemporary philosophy condemns itself to irrelevance if it does not engage with recent work in neuroscience.
BIO: Christopher Watkin is a senior lecturer in French at Monash University. His latest book is Difficult Atheism: Post-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux, and he is currently working on a project entitled The Human Remains, about contemporary French philosophical anthropology.
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