"The safest general characterization of the philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
modern philosophers
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 that helps me improve it. I have something like 15 minutes to present as part of a panel on "Philosophical Perspectives," so I'll only be …
Continue reading "Toward a Communicative Cosmos: Whitehead and Media Ecology (updated draft)"
I'm teaching another online graduate course for CIIS.edu this Fall (Aug-Dec) called Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology: Toward a Physics of the World-Soul (PARP 6133). Here is the proposed syllabus. Auditors and Special Students are welcome to enroll. Email me at msegall@ciis.edu for more information about how to do this.
There is a ton of commentary on this controversy, so I won't try to summarize it. This wiki page does a decent job, as far as I can tell. Here is Rebecca Tuvel's article, "In defense of transracialism." It may be helpful to read it before weighing in on the controversy. It is unfortunate that Tuvel …
Thanks to Adrian Nelson for hosting this conversation on his YouTube channel Waking Cosmos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-AhdpnlasM
I'm teaching an online graduate course called Mind and Nature in German Idealism this semester. Below I am sharing several diagrams that I've developed to depict Kant's transcendental method as it evolves through the first three critiques, as well as Fichte's radicalization of the Kantian project. I hope to continue developing this diagram to elucidate Schelling, Goethe, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrwEdu59G3c There's still a few weeks left to enroll in my spring course at CIIS.edu as an auditor or special student. Mind and Nature in German Idealism will start on January 17th and run until May 8th. Email me if you are interested and I can share the syllabus and/or enrollment instructions (msegall@ciis.edu).
A lecture from last week's class Brief History of Western Thought on Romanticism and the crisis of modern science as it played out in the organic nature philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_DW2WKjRg
