Adam Robbert interviewed me over on The Side View Podcast. Check it out HERE. We discussed speculative philosophy, panpsychism, politics, and more.
From pedagogy to cosmology with A. N. Whitehead
A student in my course this semester asked a great question recently: "How is Whitehead's cosmology related to his pedagogy?" Many commentators find it strange that Whitehead decided to include (and indeed to conclude) his book Aims of Education with a few chapters on relativistic space and time. What on earth does his alternative interpretation [...]
Economics as though life on Earth depended on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5HH7_aT3OU&feature=youtu.be Some related essays on integral economics, a Christian ecological worldview, and slavery and capitalism.
On the Matter of Life: Towards an Integral Economics
I'm posting a revised version of a long essay I wrote a decade ago. It draws on thinkers including Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, William Irwin Thompson, Francisco Varela, Alfred North Whitehead, and Alf Hornborg in search of a more integral approach to economics. I had not yet encountered the social ecology [...]
Notes on Deleuze’s “Bergsonism”
Intuition as Method Stating and creating problems Realizing that we are the creators of our own problems gives us “semi-divine power”; those who accept ready-made problems of society are slaves (15) Deleuze: “the history of humanity, from the theoretical as much as from the practical point of view, is the construction of problems. It is [...]
Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy [draft]
[Update 3/28/2019: Here is a PDF of the final draft prior to my conference presentation: "Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy: Whiteheadian Reflections on Bergson, Einstein, and Rovelli." This will eventually be published in an anthology with the other conference papers and is likely to undergo further revisions at a later date.] Below is a [...]
The Physics of Politics, or From Entropy to Possibility
In my video below, I am responding to this vlog by Matthew Pirkowski. See also my Twitter exchange with Matthew on these topics. https://youtu.be/wl1cdeWyOVI
