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Alain Badiou (1937 - ) is a French philosopher.
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Forcing and Philosophy
The only (ontological) connection between Forcing (Cohen) and Philosophy i know is the work of Alain Badiou. Are there any other philosophers who have worked on this topic?
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Does Wittgenstein's "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" relate ontology with language?
Since Badiou equates ontology with Mathematics, if both philosophers are to be taken verbatim, there's a triple equivalence to consider: ontology = Mathematics = language.
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Badiou’s categorization of spheres of Truths
I’ve been reading through much of Badiou’s work for about a year and just finished Being and Event; though there is something I still don’t quite understand.
Badiou claims that the four spheres (of ...
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Badiou vs. Deleuze - Set Theory vs. Differential Calculus - Limits vs. Infinitesimals
My question is triggered by a quote from Manuel DeLanda which I find difficult to unpack as it is probably not only that they prefer different mathematical tools but that there is a profound ...
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How does Badiou analyze natural situations?
I'm having trouble applying Badiou's method of looking at situations as sets (EDIT: specifically sets in a model of ZFC). The following example was in the introduction to one of his books, Infinite ...
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Questions on Peter Hallward's introduction to Alain Badiou's Ethics?
In his introduction to "Ethics" by Alain Badiou he does a quick run down on how the analytic ethics of Lacan differ from the philosophical ethics of Badiou. I'm having a hard time ...
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How does Badiou summarise Levinas' approach to ethics?
In Badiou’s opening paragraphs he offers an account of Lévinas’s concern with philosophy and its hostility to an ethical relation to the Other. In Badiou’s characterisation of Lévinas, why is it ...
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What is an Event for Badiou?
Badiou is known for his theorisation of the Event, for example in his book Being and Event; it's clear though that it's not an event in these term:
smiles, walks, dances, weddings, explosions, ...
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Is Simondon's ontogenesis compatible with Badiou's ontology?
Is Simondon's ontogenesis compatible with Badiou's ontology?
Simondon's belief is that an individual can only be understood as an individuation, presupposing a pre-individual metastable reality, ...
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Why is love included in Badiou's enumeration of truth procedures?
Admittedly I have not read the actual Badiou. So will someone brief me:
Why is "love" included in Badiou's list of the four "truth procedures" of which philosophy is necessarily independent--rather ...
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To which of Badiou's four conditions does religion belong?
I was tempted to ask "Why didn't Badiou include religion among his conditions?," but we will never know the answer to that. So instead I will ask if there are instances in Badiou's work, or in the ...
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What is philsosophy when it is sutured to Music?
In Badious philosophy, he has considers that Poltics, Art, Science & Love to be four truth-procedures, and that Philosophy is suspended from the other three; but it can be sutured to them too.
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Badiou, Deicide & the return of the Transcendent
Badious philosophy is predicated on Set Theory, in its incarnation as the materialist set theory ZFC. He calls mathematics the very site of ontology.
Nietszche famously declared the death of God (in ...
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Contradiction, and the Being and Becoming of Mathematics [closed]
Mathematics is rife with contradictions, is shot through with them: the fault-lines lie where theories collide, fade or open up.
Does this disturb the incarnation of mathematics - the Ideal ...
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Mathematics and the Peano Event, or the sign thereof [closed]
One might say the Original Event in mathematics is Euclids axiomatisation of Plane Geometry.
Subsequent axiomatisation - such as Peanos Axioms for the natural numbers being an echo of that Event, and ...
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Has logic been formalised?
The headline question is mainly a rhetorical question.
Paul Cohen, a major set theorist who invented 'forcing' in Set Theory for independence results and used by Badiou in his philosophy has this to ...
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Why are set theory and numbers important to philosophy?
I'm reading David Papineau's Philosophical Devices, and there's a section on numbers and set theory. But there's not deeper hint on why it's important to philosophy.
I guess that in mathematics we ...
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Does Popper's theory of falsification apply to mathematics?
Mathematics is generally & popularly judged a science in the basic duality: science - humanities. As enemies and collaborationists. The border heavily & fiercely policed.
However, it seems to ...
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What is the essential something that Heidegger suggests that philosophers can learn from poetry?
In this transcript of a conversation between Simon Critchley & Badiou on Badiou's book Being and Event, Badiou states:
And after that, I have also to understand why there is in modern times a ...
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Whn Badiou asserts that mathematics is Ontology what does he mean by Ontology?
Badious oeuvre can be succintly phrased in his slogan: mathematic is ontology.
Mathematics I understand. So the question really is the other part of his slogan. I take his 'is' to be normal and ...
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What is the Event according to Badiou?
What is the Event according to Alain Badiou? Might he give examples of such "events" in real life? I am having trouble understanding the explanations I have found.
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Is there any philosophical significance to the arithmetization of infinity?
There are two arithmetics of infinity, ordinal & cardinal. I'm going to focus on the cardinal arithmetic as it requires less structure, that is they need less (i.e., ordinals require the idea of ...
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Which philosophers have done most to bridge the analytic/continental divide?
I am interested to find out work done in this direction by prominent philosophers in each tradition.
My paradigm cases would be Richard Rorty on the analytic side and Alain Badiou on the continental ...
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What are the major criticisms of Alain Badiou's claim that mathematics is ontology?
Building on Was mathematics invented or discovered? I would like to know what the major criticisms are of Alain Badiou's claim that mathematics is "the very site of ontology" (in Being and Event.)
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