This article is aimed at those interested in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the sciences—and this includes philosophers of science working out of the analytic tradition. Deleuze's writings are riddled with references to science and mathematics. And yet, the relation between these references and his philosophical thought is not well understood. In this essay, I investigate the nature of this relation—and I do so by asking whether it is naturalistic. Importantly, I draw on insights from contemporary philosophy of science to contribute to a proper understanding of this issue. I show that and how commentators are hamstrung by their lack of engagement with the philosophy of science; I present an interpretation of Deleuze's philosophical project as attempting to articulate an immanent and primitive form of objective modality; I draw together parts of Deleuze's corpus that are relevant to his treatment of the sciences but are nonetheless rarely studied in conjunction (including his and Guattari's distinction between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ science and his under-scrutinized statement of interest in ‘the metaphysics science needs’); and I propose a naturalistic interpretation of his engagements with science.

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科学需要的形而上学：德勒兹的自然主义

本文针对的是那些对吉尔·德勒兹哲学和科学感兴趣的人，其中包括遵循分析传统的科学哲学家。德勒兹的著作中充满了科学和数学的内容。然而，这些参考文献与他的哲学思想之间的关系尚不清楚。在这篇文章中，我通过询问它是否是自然主义的来研究这种关系的本质。重要的是，我借鉴了当代科学哲学的见解，以帮助正确理解这个问题。我展示了这一点，以及评论家如何因缺乏对科学哲学的参与而受到阻碍；我对德勒兹的哲学计划进行了解释，试图阐明客观模态的内在和原始形式；我整理了德勒兹语料库中与他对科学的处理相关的部分内容，但很少结合起来研究（包括他和加塔里对“主要”和“次要”科学的区分，以及他对“形而上学”感兴趣的未经充分审查的陈述）科学需要”）；我对他与科学的接触提出了一种自然主义的解释。