“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead
Forthcoming in 2023
Crossing the Threshold
Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead
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Thinking with Rudolf Steiner
It is hard to believe I’ve been thinking with Steiner for almost 15 years. He is, as the late BBC documentarian and author Jonathan Stedall put it in the title of his 2011 biopic, a “challenge.” In contemporary German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s words: Steiner created a kind of antenna anthropology that we can no longer […] Read more
Ancient Philosophy, Descartes, Goethe, Hegel, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner
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Are there alternatives to the Big Bang?
In November, Tim Eastman and I were invited by the Cobb Institute to reflect on the status of the cosmological theory popularly known as the “Big Bang,” a.k.a. the ΛCDM (Lambda cold dark matter) or Lambda-CDM model. Earlier this year, NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope came on line. Its huge mirrors allow for a six fold […] Read more
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In dialogue with David Abram
This conversation was recorded earlier this year in San Francisco. TRANSCRIPT This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land. Author, cultural ecologist, and geo philosopher David […] Read more
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Hunger for Wholeness podcast with Dr. Ilia Delio
I had a wonderful conversation with Ilia Delio and Gabbi Sloan a few weeks ago, Part 1 of which was just released here. We discuss a number of topics, including the problem of evil. Part 2 continues the conversation here. The podcast comes out of Dr. Delio’s work with the Center for Christogenesis. She has […] Read more
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Carl Schmitt’s ‘Political Theology’: A Process Theological Intervention
“Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: A Process Theological Intervention” By Matthew David Segall Introduction This essay critically engages with Carl Schmitt’s anti-liberal political theology, offering important interventions from the related perspectives of Alfred North Whitehead’s cosmopolitical process theology, philosophical personalism, and Bruno Latour’s Gaian political ecology. Schmitt’s criticisms of early 20th century liberalism are tested against Dan Dombrowski’s […] Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Bruno Latour, Fichte, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Kant, Modern Philosophy, politics, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling
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In dialogue with Iain McGilchrist
See also my blog review of McGilchrist’s new book The Matter With Things. Read more
Alan Watts, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Coleridge, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling, Sean Kelly, William James
“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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