Biography summary
Sean Bowden is Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research interests
Sean researches primarily in the area of contemporary French philosophy and the philosophy of action and agency.
Affiliations
The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
The Australasian Association of Philosophy
The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Feast-France The France-Australia Research Network
Teaching interests
ASP210 Plato and Nietzsche
ASP228 Philosophy, Art, Film
ASP309 20th Century French Philosophy
Knowledge areas
Contemporary French and European philosophy, American pragmatism, theories of action and agency.
Projects
Sean Bowden's current research aims to develop and explore the implications of an 'expressive' conception of individual and collective agency.
Publications
Sean Bowden
(2023), pp. 70-111, Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, London, Eng., C1
Encounters and the Differential Genesis of Thought in The Logic of Sense
S Bowden
(2022), Vol. 16, pp. 24-50, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1
Punishment for mob-based harms: expressing and denouncing mob mentality
S Bowden, S Sorial, K Bourne
(2021), Vol. 38, pp. 366-383, Journal of applied philosophy, Chichester, Eng., C1
Assembling agency: expression, action, and ethics in Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus
S Bowden
(2020), Vol. 58, pp. 383-400, Southern journal of philosophy, Chichester, Eng., C1
'Becoming equal to the act': the temporality of action and agential responsibility
S Bowden
(2019), pp. 123-140, Posthuman ecologies: complexity and process after Deleuze, London, Eng., B1
Sean Bowden
(2019), pp. 183-206, Deleuze's philosophical lineage II, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
DELEUZE'S NIETZSCHE ON BECOMING WHAT ONE IS
Sean Bowden
(2019), Vol. 81, pp. 53-80, TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE, C1
AN ANTI-POSITIVIST CONCEPTION OF PROBLEMS: deleuze, bergson and the french epistemological tradition
S Bowden
(2018), Vol. 23, pp. 45-63, Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Phenomenology, Naturalism and Non-reductive Cognitive Science
Jack Reynolds, Catherine Legg, Patrick Stokes, Sean Bowden
(2018), Vol. 2, pp. 119-124, Australasian Philosophical Review, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Joint action and the expression of shared intentions: an expanded Taylorian account
S Bowden
(2017), Vol. 25, pp. 440-462, European journal of philosophy, Chichester, Eng., C1
S Bowden
(2017), Vol. 11, pp. 216-239, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, C1
Antirepresentationalism and objectivity in Rorty, Brandom and Deleuze
S Bowden
(2015), pp. 180-198, Deleuze and Pragmatism, Melbourne Vic., B1
Deleuzian encounters with pragmatism
S Bowden, S Bignall, P Patton
(2015), pp. 1-17, Deleuze and pragmatism, Melbourne, Vic., B1
Human and nonhuman agency in Deleuze
S Bowden
(2015), pp. 60-80, Deleuze and the non/human, New York , N.Y., B1
Tragedy and agency in Hegel and Deleuze
S Bowden
(2015), pp. 212-228, At the edges of thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
Normativity and expressive agency in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Deleuze
S Bowden
(2015), Vol. 29, pp. 236-259, Journal of speculative philosophy, University Park, Pa., C1
Transcendental pragmatics? Deleuze, pragmatism, and metaphilosophy
J Reynolds
(2014), London, Eng., A1-1
'Willing the event': Expressive agency in Deleuze's Logic of Sense
S Bowden
(2014), Vol. 15, pp. 231-248, Critical horizons : a journal of philosophy & social theory, London, Eng., C1
Actions and events in Deleuze's logic of sense
S Bowden
(2014), pp. 1-9, Deleuze in China: Proceedings of the 2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference, Kaifeng City, China, E1
The set-theoretical nature of Badiou's ontology and Lautman's dialectic of problematic ideas
S Bowden
(2012), pp. 39-58, Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
Badiou's philosophical heritage
S Bowden, S Duffy
(2012), pp. 1-15, Badiou and philosophy, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
Gilles Deleuze, a reader of Gilbert Simondon
S Bowden
(2012), pp. 135-153, Gilbert Simondon : being and technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1
Paul Redding's Continental idealism (and Deleuze's continuation of the idealist tradition)
S Bowden
(2011), Vol. 11, pp. 75-79, Parrhesia, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
Deleuze's neo-leibnizianism, events and the logic of sense's 'static ontological genesis'
S Bowden
(2010), Vol. 4, pp. 301-328, Deleuze studies, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1-1
Alain Badiou: Problematics and the different senses of being in being and event
S Bowden
(2008), Vol. 5, pp. 32-47, Parrhesia, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Brian Macallan
Thesis entitled: Freedom as a Centralizing Motif in the work of Henri Bergson
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Max Lowdin
Thesis entitled: Sign and Idea: Spinoza and Deleuze
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
William John Bennett
Thesis entitled: In Sublimity's Wake
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Caitlyn Lesiuk
Thesis entitled: Revisiting Badiou's Beckett: Poetry and Truth in L'immanence des vérités
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Timothy Deane-Freeman
Thesis entitled: The Digital Outside - Deleuzian film philosophy and contemporary screen cultures
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
David Giles Field
Thesis entitled: Suits Rules Okay? The Relationship Between Fun and Games
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Erin Donnarumma
Thesis entitled: Radical New Self: Modern Ideology in the Age of Individualism
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Thesis entitled: Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Process Phenomenology
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Daniel Timothy Connell
Thesis entitled: Defending Nietzsche from Heidegger's Nietzsche An analysis and critique of Heidegger's understanding of Nietzsche's ontology and epistemology
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences