FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Ken Wilber
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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Value at the Root: Cultivating Virtue in a Post-Truth World
Context The following reflections grow out of my live dialogue with Bonnitta Roy about the metaphysics of value. She’ll be sharing the discussion in her pop-up school for those who subscribe. Here…
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Infinite Intimate: Dialoguing with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein
Matt Segall: Hi Marc, pleasure to meet you. Marc Gafni: Good to meet you, Matt. Matt Segall: Really, as I said in my email, it’s an honor and it’s humbling to get to…
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The Physics and Metaphysics of Evolutionary Learning
Below is the video and a transcript of a conversation with Brendan Graham Dempsey following my review of his essay “A Universal Learning Process.” You can listen to the audio…
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Prehension: Is Experience Fundamental?
Brendan Graham Dempsey and I connected again to continue our discussion, this time focusing on Whitehead’s concept of “prehension.” I explained that, contrary to Ken Wilber’s placement of the concept…
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“The Matter With Things” by Iain McGilchrist
“Questions such as those concerning scientific truth, the nature of reality, and the place of man in the cosmos require for their study some knowledge of the constitution, quality, capacities…
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Integral Facticity podcast with Erik Haines: Varieties of Integral & the Next Left
More info: https://medium.com/integral-facticity/matt-segall-on-the-varieties-of-integral-michael-brooks-the-next-left-af41e79a8a0e
Alan Watts, Alfred North Whitehead, autopoiesis, Brian Swimme, Carl Jung, Evan Thompson, Fichte, Francisco Varela, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Jakob Böhme, Jean Gebser, Kant, Ken Wilber, Meister Eckhart, Modern Philosophy, politics, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Sean Kelly, Thomas Berry, William Irwin Thompson, William James -
Tim Eastman Unties the Gordian Knot: Complete Seminar (Sessions 1-9)
Above is an embedded playlist featuring all 9 of the Eastman Seminars that I facilitated for the Science Advisory Committee of the Cobb Institute from June 2021 through February 2022.…
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Tim Eastman Wrap-Up Session: Quantum Physics, Process Philosophy, and the Simulation Hypothesis
We wrapped up our 9-part seminar series on plasma physicist and philosopher Timothy E. Eastman’s book over the weekend. Above is the recording of the final session, which included responses…
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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 -
Cosmologies in Question: A Debate with David Long
Thanks to Bruce Alderman at The Integral Stage for moderating.
Alfred North Whitehead, autopoiesis, Brian Swimme, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Evan Thompson, Extended Mind, Fichte, Francisco Varela, Galileo, Goethe, Hegel, imagination, Jean Gebser, Kant, Ken Wilber, Modern Philosophy, Paul Churchland, poetry, reason, Richard Dawkins, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling -
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 -
Neuroscientist Christoph Koch comes out as a panpsychist?
Now that I’m just about finished with my comprehensive exam, let’s see what interesting things are happening around the blogosphere… WOW! According to Michael Zimmerman, Christoph Koch has come out as…
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Reflections on Jorge Ferrer’s Participatory Turn in Transpersonal Theory
I’m taking a course this semester on contemporary transpersonal theory taught by Prof. Jorge Ferrer and Prof. Jacob Sherman. Ferrer’s key text is Revisioning Transpersonal Theory (2001), wherein he tries…
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Post-Secular Spirituality
Michael over at Archive Fire recently linked to a published essay by a friend and former colleague at CIIS, Annick Hedlund-de Witt. Annick researches the way changing world-views in America and Europe stand to…
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Enactivism, Integral Theory, and 21st Century Spirituality
The following is lifted from my old blog at Gaia.com, which has since shut down. Sorry of some hypertext doesn’t work! I first want to thank everyone for participating in…
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Phenomenology and Science
Science (empirical observation coupled with logical deduction), as a way of thinking, has undoubtedly made more out of mankind than any other mode of thought in his historical arsenal. In…
