“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead
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Live broadcasting tomorrow for 12/21/2012
Some friends and I will be spiraling around the bay in ritual celebration tomorrow, beginning at sunrise. We’ll be broadcasting some of the festivities on the UStream channel “dec21sharing.” Read more
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[Final Draft] Worldly Religion in Deleuze and Whitehead: On the Possibility of a Secular Divinity
Below I’ve written a paper using the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead to construct a secular divinity. For Deleuze, this is an especially serious act of buggery on my part. Deleuze of course approved of that method in his own projects, but I wonder if he would approve of the baby jesus Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Edmund Husserl, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Religion
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Imagination in Philosophy (from NYT’s “The Stone”)
From a recent essay over at The Stone on NYT.COM by Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone about philosophy and the poetic imagination: “…what makes these interpretive efforts poetic: They do not concern the ordinary significance of form in language. When we approach language prosaically, our focus is on arbitrary conventions that link words to things Read more
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Josefina Burgos – “Becoming: A Concept Where Science and Philosophy Can Meet”
A colleague at CIIS presenting on Process Philosophy in Whitehead, Bergson, and Teilhard last Friday. Read more
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Old White Guys Ventriloquising Nature
“Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.” – A. N. Whitehead This is a round table discussion called “Moving Naturalism Forward.” So far it is somewhat infuriating. There is no one there to problematize who should speak for nature. All of these dudes have signed the Read more
“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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