Footnotes²Plato
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Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy (dialogue with Michael Garfield)
This was a really rich conversation. Michael just recently launched his new podcast Humans on the Loop. You can find more episodes and the show notes for this episode on his Substack: https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/h-12. Some brief reflections on the themes we explored: We began with the premise that money is a form of communication, a means… Read more
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Whitehead’s Theory of Propositions
The title of the article Ben Snyder and I are discussing is “The Objectivity of Whitehead’s Propositions: An Explication of the Truth-Relation” in Process Studies53 (2):256-274 (2024). Ben begins with a summary of his paper’s main argument, which I’ll try to capture below. Propositions, for Whitehead, are more than statements in language: they are metaphysical “lures”… Read more
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Schelling’s Reading of Plato’s “Timaeus”
In this dialogue, Tim Jackson and I return almost to the beginning of philosophy–“almost” in the sense that Plato himself was already responding to a few centuries of philosophizing by the physiologoi. His dialogue Timaeus represents a synthesis rather than a pure start in the evolution of philosophy. He attempted to reconcile different positions and… Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Bruno Latour, Carl Jung, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Gilles Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Plato, reason, Schelling, Socrates
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Minds All Around Us: Dialoguing with Michael Levin
You can read my reflections on this dialogue here. Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, autopoiesis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, Descartes, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Richard Dawkins
“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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