“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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Fall 2018 Online Course: “Mind & Nature in German Idealism”
I’ll be offering this course for the second time in Fall 2018 at CIIS.edu (the semester runs from late August through mid-December). Special students and auditors are welcome to enroll! Email me at msegall@ciis.edu for more information about registration. Read more
Coleridge, Copernican Revolution, Descartes, Fichte, Goethe, Hegel, Hume, imagination, Jakob Böhme, Kant, Kepler, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling, Spinoza
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Bruno Latour’s “Facing Gaia”
I’m sharing two lectures recorded for my online course this semester, Process and Difference in the Pluriverse. In these two modules, we are studying Latour’s recently translated book Facing Gaia. Chapters 1-4: Chapters 5-8: Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Bruno Latour, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Donna Haraway, Galileo, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, politics, reason, Religion, Richard Dawkins
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Spirituality and Justice: Reconciling Transcendence and Immanence
I was part of a panel at a Diversity Symposium at CIIS today. Read more
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Process and Difference in the Pluriverse: Plato, William James, & W.E.B. Du Bois
I’m sharing the lecture from the first module of my course this semester at CIIS.edu, PARP 6135: Process and Difference in the Pluriverse. The lecture discusses Plato’s Republic, William James’ pluralism, and W.E.B. Du Bois’ critical inheritance of James’ philosophy. Here’s a PDF transcript of the lecture Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Hegel, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, politics, race, reason, Religion, Socrates, Timothy Morton, William James
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Interview for Neonosis Podcast
Joshua Fields interviewed me last week for his podcast Neonosis. Listen here: http://www.neonosis.com/e10-dr-matt-segall-philosophy-consciousness/ Read more
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Evolution & Spirituality Course at Schumacher College This Summer
If you live in the UK, or if you are traveling there this summer, I’ll be teaching for one of Schumacher College’s 3-week intensive courses Monday, June 18th through Friday, June 22nd on the topic of evolution and spirituality. The description of my week is below. Also teaching week-long modules in this course are the Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Brian Swimme, Carl Jung, Darwin, imagination, Modern Philosophy, Religion, 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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