Michael Ardoline
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy 208A Coates Hall |
Professor Ardoline works on philosophy of mathematics, science, and technology through the Continental and Analytic traditions. He has recently begun work in comparative philosophy between the Continental and Ancient Confucian traditions. He is the author of Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity (Edinburgh University Press).
B.A. in Physics, Lebanon Valley College (2010)
M.A. in Philosophy, West Chester University (2012)
M.A. in Contemporary European Philosophy, Kingston University and Paris 8 Saint-Denis (2016)
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Memphis (2021)
PHIL1000: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL1021: Introduction to Logic
PHIL2035: History of Modern Philosophy
PHIL4951: Philosophy of Science
PHIL4952: Topics in Metaphysics
Books
Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
“Mathematical Extraction: Set Theory and Category Theory as the Forms of Duomining,” in Speculative Realism Today, (forthcoming)
“Extending Intensions: Deleuze and Guattari’s Critique of Formal Logic,” Deleuze and Guattari Studies (forthcoming)
“Building a Way: Becoming Active in One’s Own Subjectivation Through Deleuze and Xunzi,” Philosophies 7 (2022): 1-16
“Infinite Speeds and Practical Reason: A Kinematics of the Concept in What is Philosophy?,” in Deleuze, Guattari, and the Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains, ed. Dorothea Olkowski and Eftichis Pirovolakis (Routledge, 2019), 16-24
“Neuroticism and the Impossibility of Meta-Philosophy,” Parasol: Journal for the Centre for Experimental Ontology 1 (2018): 51-60
“What Laws? Which Past?: Meillassoux's Hyper-Chaos and the Epistemological Limits of Retro-Causation,” Open Philosophy (2018): 235-44
“On Inherent Values in Media,” in Crisis, Exposure, Imagination: Lifting Veils, ed. Jordan E. Miller, Craig Condella, and Fred Abong (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 71-79
“Impassioning Reason: On the Role of Habit in Argumentation,” in Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 9-12 June 2015, vol. 2, (2016): 205-15
Book Reviews
Review of Gaetano Chiurazzi, Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable, trans. Robert Valgenti (2021), in
Comparative and Continental Philosophy 15 (2023): 135-37
Review of Deleuze and New Technology, ed. Mark Poster and David Savat (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), in Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory 11 (2011): 225-26