Lucas Carroll
Lucas Carroll
Contact
Email: carrolih@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., B.S., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- M.A., Southern Evangelical Seminary
Research Interests
History and Critique of Metaphysics
Contemporary Metaphysics
19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy of Language and Dialogue
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Department
Biography
I am fascinated by the great systems of the classical metaphysical tradition and with the living question concerning this tradition's curtailment and overthrow. My research is oriented around a cluster of questions and figures relating to the once-oft-announced "end of metaphysics." Mainly, I am preoccupied with isolating and describing in detail the fatal problems said to block any attempt at metaphysics' rejuvenation or reconstruction. I locate my own thinking within the grand tradition of speculative metaphysics as this has stretched from Plato, through Hegel, and on into our present. Some recent exemplifications of this tradition I take especially seriously include the genealogical line running through process philosophy (Whitehead, Ruyer, Simondon, Deleuze), as well as the series of systematic metaphysical thinkers populating recent Catholic philosophy (Rosmini, Blondel, Przywara, Ulrich, Lonergan, Zubiri, Desmond, Blanchette, and Puntel).
Publications
“Perfection in Multiplication: Ferdinand Ulrich’s Thomistic Metaphysics of Existential Limit in Historical and Dialectical Context, Part 2”, Studia Gilsoniana, (Forthcoming).
“Perfection in Multiplication: Ferdinand Ulrich’s Thomistic Metaphysics of Existential Limit in Historical and Dialectical Context, Part 1”, Studia Gilsoniana, 14:2, pp. 197-263.
“Being Without One: Deleuze and the Medievals on Transcendental Unum”, Parrhesia, 39, pp. 118-154.
“Castrated Ontologizing: A Lacanian Critique of Metaphysical Desire”, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 44:4, pp. 312-334.
“Deleuze Among the Scotists: Difference-In-Itself and Ultima Differentia”, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 16:3, pp. 331-378.
“Review of Capobianco’s Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding”, Gatherings, 13, pp. 267-272.
Presentations
My recent presentations include:
“When ‘Why?’ Finds No Answer: Postwar Consensus and Ordinary Psychosis”, Psychology and the Other. Boston, MA (2025)
“Biotechnology and Philosophical Anthropology”, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (American Psychological Association, Division 24). Pittsburgh, PA (2025)
“The Dialectic of Apophasis in Eriugena’s Periphyseon”, International Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference. Villanova, PA (2025)
“Heidegger’s Antimetaphysics”, The Heidegger Circle. Pittsburgh, PA (2025)
“The Sense of ‘The Real’ Is Real”, Metaphysical Society of America. Atlanta, GA (2025)
“Suture and the End of Metaphysics”, LACK. Columbus, OH (2025)
“Metaphysical Circle and History of Critique”, International Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference. Villanova, PA (2024)
“The Origin of Negation”, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences & Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists. Pittsburgh, PA (2024)
“Ferdinand Ulrich on the Medieval Metaphysics of Multiplicity”, Metaphysical Society of America. New York City, NY (2024)
“Lacan and Platonic Pedagogy”, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (American Psychological Association, Division 24). Boston, MA (2023)
“Reincipiens: On Negative Ontology”, Metaphysical Society of America. Atlanta, GA (2023)
Response to Larry Cahoone’s “Objective Relativism and Metaphysics”, Metaphysical Society of America. Atlanta, GA (2023)
Response to Jason Exar Cabitac’s “Metaphysical Relativism in the Search for Truth”, Metaphysical Society of America. Atlanta, GA (2023)