"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsWD1vrUip0 Bruce Damer and I joined David Sloan Wilson on the Human Energy Project podcast for a conversation about the Hot Spring Abiogenesis Hypothesis and its cosmological implications. This was recorded late last year.
I was asked earlier today by someone I assume is an anti-natalist what I thought the purpose of the cosmos is. I answered that I mostly just want to encourage people to wonder about it. But I also linked to an essay I wrote 12 years ago as a sort of mythospeculative narrative intending to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLP5LzWhXomAL0I20u3AlZV7C_6nQeNoy6 Above is an embedded playlist featuring all 9 of the Eastman Seminars that I facilitated for the Science Advisory Committee of the Cobb Institute from June 2021 through February 2022. Tim Eastman, a plasma physicist and philosopher, is the author of Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context (2020). These seminars invited other [...]
I just sent a draft of this coauthored essay off to the editors. Astrobiologist Bruce Damer and I have been building toward this for a few years. I'm thrilled to have gotten it to this point, and looking forward to peer review! The essay will be featured in a book coming out of this conference [...]
Had a great time chatting with my friend Dr. Sam Mickey about Whitehead's philosophy of organism. https://youtu.be/TZ31AX8kR4s
I joined Adam Robbert on The Side View to talk about my new book on Whiteheadian cosmology. https://youtu.be/iPDQRr5-MqA
A new revised and expanded edition of my book Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology is now available in paperback and electronic versions.
'Who are we'? Always a good question to ask. Ecologically speaking, this might be the most important question humanity can ask: 'How wide does the we reach?' Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme point to the stars, but their point is not that scientific abstractions explain human life down here on earth. Their point, as I understand it, [...]
I'm winding down a cross-country road trip and had the pleasure of talking about it in the context of America's larger political predicament with Jeremy and Ryan on their "Growing Down" podcast. https://youtu.be/IypEa3CzmmM
Christopher Satoor and I discussed Schelling, his German Idealist context, and Whitehead's inheritance of Schellingian ideas about mind and nature. https://youtu.be/sxBxi3j4QAs
Thanks to Bruce Alderman at The Integral Stage for moderating. https://youtu.be/rRxL_6DeIV0
https://youtu.be/FF6V78LNiLI Sean Kelly and I delivered this a few weeks ago at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA at our philosophy program's annual retreat.
I'm posting a revised version of a long essay I wrote a decade ago. It draws on thinkers including Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, William Irwin Thompson, Francisco Varela, Alfred North Whitehead, and Alf Hornborg in search of a more integral approach to economics. I had not yet encountered the social ecology [...]
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