“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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Whitehead and the World-Soul on Rune Soup
Had a blast chatting with Gordon White on his podcast Rune Soul Read more
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Hermitix Podcast on Whitehead’s Cosmology
Enjoyed dialoging with James about Whitehead’s organic cosmology Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Hume, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, William James
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Psychedelics Today podcast on Consciousness, Capitalism, and Philosophy
I had a great conversation with Joe Moore of Psychedelics Today a couple months back, and the podcast was just released today. Have a listen. In this episode, Joe interviews philosopher, author, and assistant professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco: Matthew D. Segall, Ph.D. Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Extended Mind, imagination, Modern Philosophy, politics, reason, Religion, Richard Dawkins, William James
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Dialoging with John Torday about Cellular Evolution
Dr. Torday is Professor of Evolutionary Medicine at UCLA: https://www.evmed.ucla.edu/torday/ For more on the cellular theory of evolution: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447538/ More about the Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee: https://cobb.institute/science-advisory-committee/ Read more
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, autopoiesis, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Edmund Husserl, Francisco Varela, Galileo, Philip Clayton, Plato, poetry, Richard Dawkins, Wittgenstein
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Tim Eastman Unties the Gordian Knot (session 1)
Last Saturday, the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute hosted plasma physicist and philosopher Timothy Eastman for the first of 8 dialogue sessions focused on his new book, Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context (2020). The book sketches a new approach to a theory of everything that builds on philosophers like Peirce Read more
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The Side View: Whitehead and the Physics of the World-Soul
I joined Adam Robbert on The Side View to talk about my new book on Whiteheadian cosmology. Read more
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Brian Swimme, Descartes, Edmund Husserl, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Isabelle Stengers, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, 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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