My lecture in two parts introducing German Idealism (focusing on Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Goethe, Hegel) https://youtu.be/uOgnlSUuYjI https://youtu.be/jvHSlu7wHWE
Introduction to German Idealism
Category: Darwin
Divine Mereology, or Why Black Holes are Pores in God’s Face
Thinking and driving...about the evolution of matter, life, and mind.
The Birth of Life & the Future of Consciousness
UPDATE. Here's a video of our dialogue: https://youtu.be/9jlVjOILsCU Next Tuesday, October 22nd at 7pm, I'll be in dialogue with astrobiologist Bruce Damer about his hot spring hypothesis of the origins of life. For Bay Area locals, the event will take place at the Mission Street campus of California Institute of Integral Studies and is free [...]
Physicalism and Its Discontents: A Study in Whitehead’s Panexperientialist Alternative [draft]
UPDATE: Here is a PDF of the final draft accepted for publication under the revised title "The Varieties of Physicalist Ontology: A Study in Whitehead's Process-Relational Alternative." I've just finished drafting this article, which will hopefully be featured in a special issue of the Journal of Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences focused on panpsychism. It still [...]
Panpsychism: a brief reply to Massimo Pigliucci
The Side View recently published an essay by Massimo Pigliucci titled "The Stoic God is Untenable in Light of Modern Science." Pigliucci is entering into a critical dialogue with a few other Side View authors, Brittany Polat and Kai Whiting, about how best to inherit from ancient Stoic philosophy. I don't have a horse in the contemporary interpretations of [...]
Economics as though life on Earth depended on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5HH7_aT3OU&feature=youtu.be Some related essays on integral economics, a Christian ecological worldview, and slavery and capitalism.
On the Matter of Life: Towards an Integral Economics
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 [...]
