...Gert-Jan van der Heiden’s “Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben’s Thought” articulates an encounter between Sextus Empiricus and Giorgio Agamben. Contrary to the usual epistemological reading of ancient skepticism, van der Heiden points out the ontological import of skeptical problems. Van der...

..., the chapter argues that, despite major differences, Sciamma and Kechiche represent a cinema of radical contingency which finds a deconstructive instability beneath existing forms, but one which also recognises the importance of pain, bodily exhaustion and material obstacles to becoming, thus refusing any...

..., and analyses the relevant views and works of Étienne Henri Gilson and Lambertus Marie de Rijk. The chapter argues that Scotus's work can be considered as the culmination point of a general development in the specific new semantic and logical key of synchronic contingency, which is not the driving force...

...Boutroux, approximately 150 years prior to Meillassoux, already argued for the contingency of laws of nature, as well as truths of logic and mathematics. Boutroux, however, does not espouse factiality, namely, the necessity of contingent beings, but he rather offers a veritable ontology of the fact...

... single out any particular form of life as democratic, he argues that democracy may be affirmed from within any particular form of life, but only as long as this form is practiced in the manner that manifests its contingency. materialism Badiou A Meillassoux Q contingency Lefort C...

... biological, technological and social individuation as different stages of collective ontogenesis. The notion of organology is further elaborated by Yuk Hui, who argues that technical objects become organic in the sense that they incorporate organic properties, such as recursivity and contingency. Thus...

...Dan DiPiero interrogates the aporia between improvisation as a politically emancipatory practice and the essential impossibility of its being so. Beginning by working within music-improvisational practices, he projects outward to consider the contingent aspects of social and political interaction...

... Jacques dialectical materialism ‘humanity’ Stalinism Fourth World of Justice intra Worldly injustices ‘Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard Un’ infinite absolute contingency empirical verification Kant Immanuel Catastrophe theory facticity subjective idealism Cantor Georg Hume David...

... modelling of complex social systems offers a mediation of necessity and contingency that could help orient political strategy. aleatory materialism Althusser Louis complexity theory French historical epistemology agent based modelling Parsons Talcott social change Weiner Norbert bifurcation theory...

... contends that the impasses which beset the project of first philosophy paradoxically become its greatest accomplishments. Although science stabilizes motion and thereby introduces necessity into human cognition, human thought always occurs amidst an inescapable movement of change and contingency...

...Chapter 3 offers a biopolitical translation of Claude Lefort’s idea of the democratic regime as characterized by ontological contingency and epistemic indeterminacy. Lefort’s powerful image of the void at the heart of democracy is in the context of biopolitics specified in terms of the absence...

... is implicated in the radical notion of contingency, which lies at the (negative) ‘core’ of current post-foundational thinking. The term ‘foundationalism’ can be used to define — from the viewpoint of social and political theory — those theories which assume that society and/or politics are ‘grounded...

... bodies. It is deeply invested in the refutation of simplified science that lacks self-criticism and claims totalising knowledge. Rather than dwell on foregone conclusions put forth by the ostensible barrister Robert Audley, the text thrives on contingency and incompleteness as resistance. Circumstantial...

... the activity of thinking for granted and neglects passivity, in ways that lead to ontological confusions and assumptions about being's determinate character. The latter troubles Meillassoux’s ancestrality problem and leads him to overlook a radically contingent being indicated within correlation itself...

... with another. But in seeking to determine the conditions under which the face to face could take place—absolute transparency to the absolutely other—its writers have risked stripping it of the contingencies and particularities that actually mark face-to-face encounters in the world. They have accidentally...

... and metaphysical claims and import. Chapter Five grounds its argument first upon Hume’s ideas about animality and the association of ideas and proceeds to lay out the subtle interplay of necessity and contingency in Hume’s theories concerning causality, reason, perception, and imagination. The chapter interprets...

... that Scotus believed that the dialogically tuned theory of the ars obligatoria is linked up with ontology and the theory of contingency. The chapter evaluates the relation between William of Sherwood's Obligationes and Scotus's Lectura I. ars obligatoria...

.... The chapter discusses the main line of Scotus's ontology of contingency and the dilemma of rival interpretations of potential, and explores his thoughts about neutral proposition and conceptual univocity. ontology Aristotle Averroes Avicenna Honnefelder L Kluxen W physics Weinberg J R...

... that many creative lines in Scotus's thought can be extended and extrapolated. An example of this is Axel Schmidt's linking of Scotus's contingency ontology to quantum theory by exploring the intimate connections between reality that is synchronically contingent and the ontological structures which quantum...

... oeuvre and the dilemma of two types of philosophy, attempting to expound on the deep structure of Scotus's way of thinking by explaining some specific terminological points and by reviewing his explanation of contingency. It also analyses Scotus's philosophical theology of God and looks...