Footnotes2Plato

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Day: May 25, 2014

  • My dissertation as a Detective Novel and a work of Science Fiction

    Etheric Imagination in Process Philosophy: Towards a Physics of the World-Soul/an Ontology of Organism  My dissertation examines the cognitive role of imagination in modern philosophies of nature since Descartes, focusing in particular on the nature philosophies of Schelling, Steiner, and Whitehead. I argue that the cognitive organ of etheric imagination grants the nature philosopher epistemic […]