FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Descartes
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God and Cosmogenesis: Thinking With Catherine Keller
A lecture on process theology for my graduate course on Whitehead’s cosmology.
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Seminar Series next month on Process Approaches to the Philosophy of Biology
The Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee, which I chair, will be hosting a series of seminars next month featuring the contributors to a new book, Process-Philosophcal Perspectives on Biology: Intuiting…
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Taming the Technological Dragon, with Michael Levin
Selections from the transcript of this conversation (complied by AI): Matt Segall: I just finished your paper “Technological Approaches to Mind Everywhere” that came out last year and really enjoyed…
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Metaphysics and the Matter With Things: Thinking With Iain McGilchrist
I’m very excited to announce that my graduate program (Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS) and the Center for Process Studies are cohosting a conference March 29-31, 2024 focused on…
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Darwin, Descartes, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Goethe, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, imagination, john Keats, Kant, Meister Eckhart, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, William James -
Music, Memory, and the Song of Life (dialogue with Karen Wong)
Karen Wong invited me on The Meaning Code again to discuss ideas we both find enriching. Below I’ll share a near transcript of some interesting tidbits, including discussion of Michael…
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Audio of my International Whitehead Conference presentation at Munich School of Philosophy
This talk was delivered on July 29th, 2023 at 4:30pm at the Munich School of Philosophy. Thanks to Godehard Brüntrup for chairing the session. You can find the paper I…
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Energy is Information, Information is Communication: Thinking with Vervaeke and Henriques
Have a listen to Greg Henriques and John Vervaeke exploring the limits of reductive naturalism and the dangerous of decadent romanticism: John and Greg got some thoughts stirring, which I…
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Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism: Turning Idealism Inside Out [draft article]
Below is a draft of a chapter I was asked to write for a book on Cambridge Idealism. It is still a bit rough in places and I’ll be continuing…
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Crossing the Threshold on the War Machine Podcast
Yet another podcast discussing my book, this time with Matt from the War Machine podcast. We talk theurgy, the role of feeling and willing in our thinking, and how to…
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Mind and Life in the Cosmos
I’m sharing a version of a lecture I delivered for the Pari Center earlier this morning.
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The Integral Stage Authors Series (interview by Layman Pascal about “Crossing the Threshold”)
I’ve pasted the transcript below with timestamps (this is autogenerated from YouTube and so has some errors, but it is readable!). 0:34 welcome back to the author series on guess…
Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Brian Swimme, Catherine Keller, Coleridge, Copernican Revolution, Descartes, Fichte, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, Heidegger, Hume, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, Raimon Panikkar, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling, Wittgenstein -
Pre-order my new book ‘Crossing the Threshold’
My new book Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead is now available for pre-order (thanks to Revelore Press/Integral Imprint). Orders ship on…
Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Brian Swimme, Catherine Keller, Copernican Revolution, Descartes, Fichte, Galileo, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Raimon Panikkar, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling, Sean Kelly, Socrates, Spinoza, Steven Shaviro, William Blake, William James -
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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“Modes of Thought” (1938) by Alfred North Whitehead
I was re-reading Whitehead’s final book, Modes of Thought (1938), and decided I may as well record an audiobook version. Below is the YouTube playlist with all 9 lectures/chapters (click…
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Platonic Physics: In Dialogue with Wolfgang Smith
Here is my conversation, recorded yesterday, with Dr. Wolfgang Smith. His new book PHYSICS: A Science in Quest of an Ontology is available from many online bookstores. We discussed a…
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Six Lectures on Whitehead’s ‘Process and Reality’
Below is a series of six lectures originally recorded in 2017 going through each part of Alfred North Whitehead’s magnum opus Process and Reality.
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Thinking with Rudolf Steiner
It is hard to believe I’ve been thinking with Steiner for almost 15 years. He is, as the late BBC documentarian and author Jonathan Stedall put it in the title…
