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In December 2021, David presented a paper with Frantz Rowe at the Forty-Second International Conference on Information Systems, Austin, Texas, USA, entitled “Free Will in Philosophy and IS research: where do we stand and...
In August 2021 David published a chapter exploring the insight process philosophy can bring to bear upon an understanding of the strain of methodological individualism, running from Hobbes to Nozick, at the heart of...
In March 2021 David published a chapter in Nik Hassan and Leslie Willcocks’ book, Advancing Information Systems Theories. This book, which grew out of the SIGPHIL in AIS, had been in preparation for some...
In November 2020 the journal Terminal published a review of Against Nature by Dominique Dubois. He says: “According to the author … our modern information systems are based on a triptych of individualism, positivism and the...
In January 2020, David presented a paper at the 53rd Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences, 7-11/1/20 in Maui, Hawai’i, USA, entitled “Understanding Digital Events: Process Philosophy and Causal Autonomy,” co-authored with Frantz Rowe...
David’s new book, “Understanding Digital Events: Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital” was published in May 2019, by Routledge. This book featured chapters written by each of the contributors to the Colloquium...
On New Year’s Eve 2018/19 an interview with David by Kyle Wiggins of Boston University was published in a Special Issue of the journal New Amercian Notes Online (NANO) On the Anthropocene, talking about his...
The day before acting as External Examiner at Uppsala University, David presented an introduction to his book, Against Nature, to a roomful of interested researchers and scholars. The slides are below. Against Nature: The Metaphysics...
This presentation coincided with the submission of the manuscript of the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Colloquium book to Routledge, and almost brings the Understanding Digital Events project to a close. The contract with Routledge for...
David’s book ‘Against Nature’ was published in May 2018 by Routledge, in their Focus series for short, punchy new work. At 110pages this book aims to get a meaty snapshot of David’s thinking across...
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