FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Bruno Latour
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Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whitehead’s Way Beyond Philosophies of Human Access
Rahul Samaranayake has had me on his podcast a few times over the years, including an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue.…
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Bruno Latour, David Chalmers, Descartes, Emmanuel Levinas, Evan Thompson, Fichte, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Hume, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Schelling, Slavoj Žižek, speculative realism, Spinoza, Steven Shaviro, Wittgenstein -
Value at the Root: Cultivating Virtue in a Post-Truth World
Context The following reflections grow out of my live dialogue with Bonnitta Roy about the metaphysics of value. She’ll be sharing the discussion in her pop-up school for those who subscribe. Here…
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Cosmology, Democracy, and the Spirit of the Earth: Talking Process-Relational Political Theology with Tripp Fuller and Aaron Simmons
I joined Tripp and Aaron to discuss the changing role of religion in public life in our tumultuous political moment. We were discussing my lecture offering a Whiteheadian process cosmological…
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Schelling’s Reading of Plato’s “Timaeus”
In this dialogue, Tim Jackson and I return almost to the beginning of philosophy–“almost” in the sense that Plato himself was already responding to a few centuries of philosophizing by…
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The Evolution of Consciousness and the Destiny of America (Dialogue with Formscapes)
In a spontaneous three-hour livestream, Kehlan and Matt explored the thoughts of influential thinkers and the implications of America’s Pluto Return. They discussed consciousness evolution, materialism’s challenges, and the spiritual…
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Alfred North Whitehead: Ideas and Influence
Below is an article I’ve just finished that will eventually be translated into German and published in The Whitehead Handbook (Verlag).
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My presentation at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies
This presentation was given on February 16, 2023 at the Claremont United Church of Christ. My paper was titled “Physics Within the Bounds of Feeling Alone.” The draft is available…
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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…
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The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis
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…
Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Brian Swimme, Bruno Latour, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Donna Haraway, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Hume, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Kepler, Modern Philosophy, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, William James -
“Another End of the World is Possible” by Servigne, Stevens, and Chapelle
“How could we call ‘rational’ an ideal of civilization guilty of a forecasting error so massive that it prevents parents from leaving a habitable world to their children?”—Bruno Latour “The…
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Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology (2021)
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.
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Brian Swimme, Bruno Latour, Catherine Keller, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Galileo, Goethe, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, Iain Hamilton Grant, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, Ptolemy, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Steven Shaviro, William James -
Science and the Modern World (dialogue with Sebastjan Vörös)
Seb and I discussed the history and contemporary status of the natural sciences and their relationship to philosophy and metaphysics.
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Rune Soup Podcast with Gordon White: Talking Whitehead, Plato, & Panpsychism
Had a great time with Gordon on Rune Soup a few days ago:
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Alchemical Consciousness After Descartes: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism as Psychedelic Realism
The following is an essay originally submitted for publication in a book on philosophy and psychedelics. After some feedback from the editors, I realized it is too long and includes…
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“The Great American Trip,” dialogue on “Growing Down”
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…
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Integral Entheogens (Ep. 5) – Molecular Alchemy and the Evolution of Spirit
Thanks to Bruce Alderman and The Integral Stage for putting this together! In Episode 5, Matthew Segall discusses how entheogens or “ecodelics” have impacted him personally and philosophically, inspiring some…
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Growing Down Podcast on “the Integral Left”
Thanks to Jeremy, Matt, and Ryan for hosting this dialogue!
