Bill Ross Memorial Workshop – British Society for Phenomenology Special Event 2025

A workshop in memory of Bill Ross, and to celebrate the posthumous publication of his book Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology (2024). Convened by the British Society for Phenomenology with the family and friends of Bill.

About Bill Ross

Bill Ross (1964 – 2022) had interests ranging widely across contemporary philosophy and culture, with a particular interest in the relations between science and philosophy.

As managing editor, he was the driving force behind Clinamen Press, which in the early 2000s published new works by contemporary philosophers, and English translation of important works by continental philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Gaston Bachelard and Michel Serres. He completed his PhD in philosophy at Staffordshire University, where he taught on the MA in the Philosophy of Nature, Information, and Technology.

Bill had a lifelong passion for the connections between science and philosophy, on which he had published several important articles. Bill was working on a monograph on the philosophy and science of Deleuzian cosmology, which was has been posthumously published by Edinburgh University Press.

This event is to celebrate Bill’s book and his life, and to allow his friends, his colleagues, and anyone interested in his work or the topics and issues addressed by his work to continue the conversation that Bill’s work inspires.

Speakers

Dan Smith (Purdue University): “Reality is a Problem: Deleuze’s Metaphysics of Manifolds.”
Michael Epperson (California State University, Sacramento): “Relational Realism and the Ontogenetic Universe: Subject, Object, and Ontological Process in Quantum Mechanics”
Kemal Tezgin (Virginia Tech): “The Virtuality of Space: A Deleuzian Reading of Quantum Fields”
Robin Durie (Independent Researcher) & Craig Lundy (London Metropolitan University): “What the imagination already knew: Science & Myth in the Genesis of Desert Islands”
Vera Bühlmann (Vienna University of Technology): “tbc”

The workshop will take place on Wednesday, 17th September 9.30am to 6.30pm. The venue is The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY. The event is open to all and there is no cost for attending. A light lunch will be provided.