THE PUBLIC NOTEBOOK OF MATTHEW DAVID SEGALL
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” -A. N. Whitehead
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Thinkers, questions, and recurring themes from twenty years of writing.
Albert Einstein Alfred North Whitehead Ancient Philosophy Aristotle autopoiesis Brian Swimme Bruno Latour Carl Jung Copernican Revolution Daniel Dennett Darwin Descartes Evan Thompson Fichte Francisco Varela Galileo Gilles Deleuze Goethe Graham Harman Hegel Heidegger Henri Bergson Hume imagination Isabelle Stengers Kant Levi Bryant Modern Philosophy Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Plato poetry politics reason Religion Richard Dawkins Romantic Philosophy Rudolf Steiner Schelling speculative realism William James
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- Alan Watts (27)
- Albert Einstein (86)
- Alfred North Whitehead (563)
- Ancient Philosophy (198)
- Andreas Weber (1)
- Andy Clark (6)
- Aristotle (117)
- autopoiesis (100)
- Brian Swimme (69)
- Bruno Latour (82)
- Carl Jung (64)
- Catherine Keller (37)
- Coleridge (27)
- Copernican Revolution (83)
- Corey Anton (3)
- Daniel Dennett (48)
- Darwin (168)
- David Chalmers (29)
- Descartes (161)
- Donna Haraway (34)
- Edmund Husserl (32)
- Emmanuel Levinas (11)
- Eric Smith (7)
- Ernst Cassirer (3)
- Evan Thompson (67)
- Extended Mind (34)
- Fichte (47)
- Francisco Varela (62)
- Galileo (65)
- Gilles Deleuze (74)
- Goethe (75)
- Graham Harman (53)
- Hegel (133)
- Heidegger (52)
- Henri Bergson (77)
- Heraclitus (30)
- Herbert Marcuse (2)
- Hume (63)
- Iain Hamilton Grant (37)
- imagination (505)
- Isabelle Stengers (61)
- Jakob Böhme (27)
- James Hillman (17)
- Jean Gebser (25)
- Jessica Garfield-Kabbara (2)
- john Keats (12)
- Kant (235)
- Ken Wilber (17)
- Kepler (23)
- Leibniz (3)
- Leron Shults (1)
- Levi Bryant (48)
- Meister Eckhart (13)
- Modern Philosophy (391)
- Owen Barfield (33)
- Paul Churchland (5)
- Philip Clayton (3)
- Pierre Hadot (4)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (67)
- Plato (235)
- Pluto (3)
- poetry (100)
- politics (125)
- Ptolemy (9)
- PZ Myers (16)
- quentin meillassoux (15)
- race (35)
- Raimon Panikkar (13)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (16)
- Ray Brassier (17)
- reason (233)
- Religion (329)
- Richard Dawkins (48)
- Richard Doyle (4)
- Richard Tarnas (42)
- Robert N. Bellah (17)
- Romantic Philosophy (175)
- Rudolf Steiner (112)
- Schelling (225)
- Sean Kelly (24)
- Seth Segall (1)
- Simon Critchley (9)
- Simone Weil (2)
- Slavoj Žižek (12)
- Socrates (24)
- speculative realism (45)
- Spinoza (33)
- Steven Shaviro (15)
- Thomas Berry (16)
- Timothy Morton (16)
- Travel (10)
- Ursula King (2)
- William Blake (10)
- William Irwin Thompson (9)
- William James (109)
- Wittgenstein (25)
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THE LIVING NOTEBOOK
Recent writing
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The Essence of Evolution: Reflections on my dialogues with evolutionary biologist Tim Jackson about God and Eternal Objects
My friend Timothy Jackson and I have been engaged in a rich interdisciplinary dialogue for nearly four years now. Where does the time go? After a bit of an email correspondence in the summer…
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Reality is a Process: Dialogue with Maitreyabandhu at the London Buddhist Centre
Slightly abridged transcript: Maitreyabandhu: So what we’re going to do this evening is have a conversation—obviously between Matt and me—about process philosophy and Buddhism. Really simply, that’s what we’re…
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Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological Commons (dialogue with Tevin Naidu)
Tevin Naidu recently hosted me on his Mind-Body Solutions podcast. Above is the video and below is an edited and somewhat condensed transcript. Tevin: I have shaped today’s episode around…
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An Anthropocosmic Approach to the Nature of Consciousness (My Talk at the UTOK Conference on Consciousness)
“What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his ‘soul.’ Man wants his physical fulfillment first and foremost,…
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“Psychedelic Realism”: My presentation at Breaking Convention
Below is an audio version and edited transcript of my talk at Breaking Convention last week, hosted by the University of Exeter. Video should be available in the coming…
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Boundless Body Podcast with Brian Tierney
My conversation with Dr. Brian Tierney traces a winding path through the imaginal dimensions of philosophy, beginning with the etheric imagination as the subtle medium through which connection between self and…
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