The following was originally written in 2012 as a chapter in a short book titled Philosophy in a Time of Emergency. It feels relevant given our current political situation, so I'm sharing it again. The Nature of Human Freedom By Matthew T. Segall The Naturphilosoph comes to understand “Nature as subject.”1 This is not the Kantian [...]
I'll be teaching another short course at Schumacher College in the UK the week of April 22nd-26th, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAO2-b1yuI Here's a link if you're interested in registering: https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/re-enchanting-the-cosmos Here's what I'll be teaching on: “The Evolution of Consciousness and the Cosmological Imagination” This week-long course will trace the evolution of consciousness in the West from [...]
My friend and colleague Adam Robbert has just launched The Side View. There is a ton of content on the site already, including articles and podcasts. Listen to Adam's short description of the site's aim here. Here's a link to my contribution, "Why German Idealism Matters," wherein I briefly lay out the transformative contributions of [...]
Here's Jacob Sherman, Joshua Ramey, and myself at yesterday's "1968 Revisited" conference at CIIS.edu. https://youtu.be/RBT-v4I_0mE?t=27m
Next weekend, CIIS is hosting a conference called "1968 Revisited." I'll be presenting on a panel on Saturday, September 29th at 10am called "Pedagogy and Experimental Philosophy" with Jacob Sherman and Joshua Ramey (moderated by Debashish Banerji). Below is a draft of my panel presentation, titled "From Final Knowledge to Infinite Learning, with Chaudhuri, Whitehead, [...]
A Slovakian visual artist, András Cséfalvay, recently invited me to submit a video for inclusion in his upcoming exhibition in Prague focused on the cultural significance of Pluto (my video is embedded below). Back in 2006, Pluto was demoted from its planetary status by the International Astronomical Union. Following the flyby of NASA's New Horizons [...]
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" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E3DwZG7730
