“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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Register for McGilchrist Conference
Registration is now open for in-person and online attendance at the Metaphysics and the Matter With Things conference. We expect the limited number of in-person tickets to sell out quickly. Student discounts are available (please email me from your .edu student email account for information about this: msegall@ciis.edu). I’m very excited about the line-up of Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Evan Thompson, Modern Philosophy, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, William James
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Panpsychist Pluralism
The following is based on a revised transcript of a recent lecture. Anyone paying attention to academic philosophy over the last decade or so will have noticed the new philosophical kid on the block. I’m talking about panpsychism. While a couple of decades ago the position would have been laughed out of court or met Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, David Chalmers, Heraclitus, Isabelle Stengers, Modern Philosophy, William James
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Science, Religion, and Earth Evolution: Thinking With Teilhard and Whitehead
I gave this presentation at my graduate program’s retreat earlier this week. Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Darwin, Donna Haraway, imagination, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Religion
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Intuiting Life Seminar Series, a preview with Spyridon Koutroufinis
If you’d like to join us for the Saturday morning seminar series beginning this weekend, you can RSVP HERE. Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, Donna Haraway, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Goethe, Henri Bergson, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Richard Dawkins, Schelling, William James
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Navigating Kantian Thought with John Vervaeke
This dialogue with John Vervaeke about my new book Crossing the Threshold was recorded earlier this year. Claude’s summary: The book discusses overcoming Kant’s epistemological barrier between the world and human reason. Kant erected this barrier to preserve human freedom and agency against the mechanistic worldview of science. Matt aims to develop an “etheric imagination” Read more
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Fichte, Hegel, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, reason, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling
“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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