Michael Ardoline

Director of Graduate Studies

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

208A Coates Hall

michaelardoline@lsu.edu

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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 嬝嬝腦瞳厙 Press).

Professor Ardoline also serves as the president of the HSS Faculty Senate.

B.A. in Physics, Lebanon Valley College (2010)

M.A. in Philosophy, West Chester 嬝嬝腦瞳厙 (2012)

M.A. in Contemporary European Philosophy, Kingston 嬝嬝腦瞳厙 and Paris 8 Saint-Denis (2016)

Ph.D. in Philosophy, 嬝嬝腦瞳厙 of Memphis (2021) 

PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 1021: Introduction to Logic

PHIL 2035: History of Modern Philosophy

PHIL 4951: Philosophy of Science

PHIL 4952: Topics in Metaphysics

Books

Interiority Against Control: the Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics of Information Technologies through Deleuze and Confucianism (Springer, 2026)

Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh 嬝嬝腦瞳厙 Press, 2024)

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters

Life Against Smallism: Assembly Theory, Scale, and the Order of Explanation, Philosophy Today (forthcoming)

Deleuze and Decoherence: Approaching the Measurement Problem through Intensity, Deleuze and Cosmology, ed.  Alain Beaulieu and Janae Sholtz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh 嬝嬝腦瞳厙 Press, 2026)

(with Edward Lenzo) The Cognitive and Moral Harms of Platform Decay, Ethics and Information Technology 27 (2025): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-025-09846-1

Mathematical Extraction: Set Theory and Category Theory as the Forms of Duomining, in 15 Years of Speculative Realism: 20072022, ed. Charlie Johns and Hilan Bensusan (London and Washington, DC: Zero Books, 2024), 93108

Extending Intensions: Deleuze and Guattaris Critique of Formal Logic, Deleuze and Guattari Studies 18:4 (2024): 45984

Building a Way: Becoming Active in Ones Own Subjectivation Through Deleuze and Xunzi, Philosophies 7 (2022): 116

Infinite Speeds and Practical Reason: A Kinematics of the Concept in What is Philosophy?, in Deleuze, Guattari, and the Philosophy of Freedom: Freedoms Refrains, ed. Dorothea Olkowski and Eftichis Pirovolakis (Routledge, 2019), 1624

Neuroticism and the Impossibility of Meta-Philosophy, Parasol: Journal for the Centre for Experimental Ontology 1 (2018): 5160

What Laws? Which Past?: Meillassoux's Hyper-Chaos and the Epistemological Limits of Retro-Causation, Open Philosophy (2018): 23544

On Inherent Values in Media, in Crisis, Exposure, Imagination: Lifting Veils, ed. Jordan E. Miller, Craig Condella, and Fred Abong (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 7179

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): 20515

 

Book Reviews

Review of Gaetano Chiurazzi, Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable, trans. Robert Valgenti (2021), in
Comparative and Continental Philosophy 15 (2023): 13537

Review of Deleuze and New Technology, ed. Mark Poster and David Savat (Edinburgh 嬝嬝腦瞳厙 Press, 2009), in Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory 11 (2011): 22526