FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Descartes
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Toward an Integral “God” – a dialogue with Layman Pascal
Thanks to Layman and Bruce Alderman at The Integral Stage for hosting these dialogues.
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The Place of Psychedelic Chemistry/Alchemical Consciousness in Philosophy
Transcript: I wanted to see if you guys might help me think through Aldous Huxley’s psychedelic phenomenology, because I’m writing about it, preparing a draft of what will become a…
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Musing on “Consciousness” with William James & Alfred North Whitehead
William James (from “A World of Pure Experience,” Part 2, p. 568): “With this we have the outlines of a philosophy of pure experience before us. At the outset of my essay, I…
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Introduction to German Idealism
My lecture in two parts introducing German Idealism (focusing on Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Goethe, Hegel)
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The Birth of Life & the Future of Consciousness
UPDATE. Here’s a video of our dialogue: Next Tuesday, October 22nd at 7pm, I’ll be in dialogue with astrobiologist Bruce Damer about his hot spring hypothesis of the origins of…
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Sundays with Whitehead
Below are a couple of video sessions from my course on Whitehead’s Process & Reality.
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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…
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Bruno Latour, Copernican Revolution, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, David Chalmers, Descartes, Evan Thompson, Extended Mind, Francisco Varela, Galileo, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Levi Bryant, Modern Philosophy, Paul Churchland, Plato, poetry, Ray Brassier, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, speculative realism, William James -
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…
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Whitehead and Marx: A Cosmopolitical Approach to Ecological Civilization
Below is a recording of my talk (a video first, then audio only that includes the discussion afterwards). I’ve also included an extended draft of some notes I took to…
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The Brain Initiative is right on schedule
Right on schedule: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neurophilosophy/201904/five-years-how-fares-the-brain-initiative For more context, read my Speculations on Obama’s Brain Initiative from five years ago.
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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,…
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Brian Swimme, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, Descartes, Donna Haraway, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Hume, imagination, Jean Gebser, Kant, Ken Wilber, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, politics, reason, Richard Dawkins -
Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy [draft]
Below is the introduction of paper I presented at a conference in L’aquila, Italy in April 2019. The conference aimed to revisit important philosophical issues related to the famous 1922…
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An Evening with Alfred North Whitehead
Here are some clips from my video call with students earlier tonight wherein I discuss Whitehead’s cosmology, including his views of God, creativity, time, immortality, and education.
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Catherine Keller: The Cosmopolitical Entanglements of Process-Relational Theology
In what follows, I offer some reflections on the feminist process theologian Catherine Keller’s book Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (2015). Keller poetically folds her refreshingly…
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Spring online course at CIIS.edu – Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology
Auditors are welcome, though space is limited. Email me at msegall@ciis.edu for more information. One of our core texts in this course will be my Physics of the World-Soul (a…
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Participatory Spirituality in an Evolving Cosmos
Here’s my talk from the INTERSECT: Science & Spirituality conference in Telluride, CO earlier this summer. It’s titled “Participatory Spirituality in an Evolving Cosmos”
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INTERSECT: Science & Spirituality (more conference reflections)
John Hausdoerffer Brian Thomas Swimme
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Physics of the World-Soul, a short course on Schelling and Whitehead at Schumacher College next week
>More information on this course<< Recommended Readings (PDF)
