“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead
Forthcoming in 2023
Crossing the Threshold
Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead
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Birth, Death, and the Life Between
I went live on YouTube for my birthday earlier tonight. Read more
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“Modes of Thought” (1938) by Alfred North Whitehead
I was re-reading Whitehead’s final book, Modes of Thought (1938), and decided I may as well record an audiobook version. Below is the YouTube playlist with all 9 lectures/chapters (click the menu button in the upper right corner to expand the playlist). Read more
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Galileo, Hume, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, reason, Religion, William James
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Platonic Physics: In Dialogue with Wolfgang Smith
Here is my conversation, recorded yesterday, with Dr. Wolfgang Smith. His new book PHYSICS: A Science in Quest of an Ontology is available from many online bookstores. We discussed a range of topics, including wholeness in physics and mathematics, Whitehead and Russell’s different interpretations of the failure of the Principia Mathematica project, the fallacy of […] Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Darwin, Descartes, Galileo, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion
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Six Lectures on Whitehead’s ‘Process and Reality’
Below is a series of six lectures originally recorded in 2017 going through each part of Alfred North Whitehead’s magnum opus Process and Reality. Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Spinoza, William James
“In one sense philosophy does nothing. It merely satisfies the entirely impractical craving to probe and adjust ideas which have been found adequate each in its special sphere of use. In the same way the ocean tides do nothing. Twice daily they beat upon the cliffs of continents and then retire. But have patience and look deeper; and you find that in the end whole continents of thought have been submerged by philosophic tides, and have been rebuilt in the depths awaiting emergence. The fate of humanity depends upon the ultimate continental faith by which it shapes its action, and this faith is in the end shaped by philosophy.”
—Alfred North Whitehead
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