FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Heidegger
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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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 -
The brain is not a computer, and thinking is not information-processing.
Sharing an email response to a question I received about the possibility of explaining human consciousness computationally, and whether such explanations might be compatible with Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science. I…
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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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Reason, Reality, & Religion in the Making (dialoguing with John Vervaeke)
Thanks to John Vervaeke for hosting me on his channel. It was a wonderful conversation. As you’ll hear, we are planning to do a few trilogues soon with Jorge Ferrer…
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Naturphilosophie as Process Philosophy in Schelling and Whitehead
Christopher Satoor and I discussed Schelling, his German Idealist context, and Whitehead’s inheritance of Schellingian ideas about mind and nature.
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Brian Swimme, Carl Jung, Darwin, Descartes, Edmund Husserl, Fichte, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, Hume, Iain Hamilton Grant, imagination, Jakob Böhme, Kant, Ken Wilber, Meister Eckhart, Modern Philosophy, Plato, politics, reason, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Slavoj Žižek, speculative realism, William James -
Meta-Linguistics (dialoguing with Layman Pascal)
Thanks to Bruce Alderman, Layman Pascal, and The Integral Stage for another great conversation! Here’s Bruce’s description: How does our understanding of the relationship between language and reality evolve as…
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The Rheomode Series, a YouTube playlist
I’ll be spending more time at the South Yuba River for the remainder of the summer. I’ll be recording more videos thinking with rocks, water, air, and fire. I’ll keep…
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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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Lectures on Timothy Morton’s “Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People”
Process and Difference in the Pluriverse (opening lecture) My Spring course at CIIS.edu finishes up this week with a set of modules on Timothy Morton’s book Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People…
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Bruno Latour, Catherine Keller, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Donna Haraway, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, Evan Thompson, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, politics, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Schelling, Sean Kelly, speculative realism, Timothy Morton, William James -
The Nature of Consciousness and What to Do About It
A dialogue with Aaron Weiss last week at our graduate program retreat.
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Process & Difference in the Pluriverse, an online course at CIIS.edu
A trailer for my course being offered this Spring at CIIS.edu. PARP 6135 Process and Difference in the Pluriverse will explore the ethical, social, political, and ecological implications of process-relational philosophy.…
Alfred North Whitehead, Bruno Latour, Catherine Keller, Darwin, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, politics, race, reason, Religion, Simon Critchley, speculative realism, Timothy Morton, William James -
Book Review of Dreyfus & Taylor’s “Retrieving Realism”
World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research just published my review of Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor’s book Retrieving Realism (2015). Read my review here (it may be behind…
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The Place of Life in the Cosmos (draft of 11th International Whitehead Conference paper)
Below is the draft of a paper I’ll present at next week’s International Whitehead Conference in the Azores. Feedback appreciated! 2017 International Whitehead Conference Matthew T. Segall The…
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Toward a Communicative Cosmos: Whitehead and Media Ecology (updated draft)
Below is a draft of a paper I’ll offer at the MEA Convention in a few weeks. I share it here in the hopes that my readers may provide feedback…
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10th International Whitehead Conference – “Seizing an Alternative: Towards an Ecological Civilization”
After speaking at the 9th International Whitehead Conference last fall in Krakow, Poland, I was invited to help organize a track for the 2015 IWC in Claremont, CA next summer (June 4-7).…
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Thinking on a Walk in the Woods: The Ideality of Matter and the Materiality of Ideas
Something of a response to Levi Bryant/LarvalSubjects on “hylephobia.” See also this post on the Astrality of Materiality.
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Thinking the Holocaust with Schelling…
A few days ago, I decided to re-read Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). It’s a reasonably short text of about 75 pages, so I’ve read…
