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Mining Conditions: A response to Harman (2010)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2010). Mining Conditions: A response to Harman. In L. Bryant, G. Harman, & N. Srnicek (Eds.), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Melbourne: Re:Press

The essay is an invited response to the extended critical consideration afforded my work in Harman’s ‘On the Undermining of Objects: Grant, Bruno, and Radical Philosophy’, included in the same collection. It’s significance concerns the growing intern... Read More about Mining Conditions: A response to Harman.

"All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature (2009)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2009). "All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature. In D. Skrbina (Ed.), Mind That Abides. Panpsychism in the New Millenium (283-299). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

This essay explores the problem od the implausibility of the emergence of consciousness from a non-conscious nature from the perspective of a powers ontology, arguing that since the matter constituting all the elements of the universe is homogeneous,... Read More about "All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature.

Prospects for a post-Copernican dogmatism: On the antinomies of transcendental naturalism (2009)
Journal Article
Grant, I. H. (2009). Prospects for a post-Copernican dogmatism: On the antinomies of transcendental naturalism

The essay argues that the transcendental objection to dogmatism is the latter's prioritisation of being over acting. The transcendental alternative is, as in Kant and Fichte, to prioritise acting over being. Yet the naturalistic alternative to this,... Read More about Prospects for a post-Copernican dogmatism: On the antinomies of transcendental naturalism.

New Media - A Critical Introduction (2009)
Book
Lister, M., Dovey, J., Giddings, S., Grant, I. H., & Kelly, K. (2009). New Media - A Critical Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge

This is a Second Edition of a book first co authored for 2003. The book offers students conceptual frameworks for thinking through a range of key issues which have arisen over two decades of speculation on the cultural implications of new media .

Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (2008)
Book
Grant, I. H. (2008). Philosophies of Nature After Schelling. London and New York: Continuum

“The whole of modern European philosophy”, wrote F.W.J. Schelling in 1809, “has this common deficiency – that nature does not exist for it.” Despite repeated echoes of Schelling’s assessment throughout the natural sciences, and despite the philosophy... Read More about Philosophies of Nature After Schelling.

'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling (2002)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2002). 'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling. In J. Arthurs, & I. H. Grant (Eds.), Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (15-22). Intellect Books

This chapter traces the motif of the financial crash in realist novels by Dickens, Trollope and Eliot in which the inherent irrationality of capitalist relations is revealed within a broadly explicable ethical universe. By the end of the century, in... Read More about 'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling.

Crash: Beyond the boundaries of sense (1999)
Book Chapter
Arthurs, J. (1999). Crash: Beyond the boundaries of sense. In J. Arthurs, & I. H. Grant (Eds.), Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (63-78). Intellect Books