"The safest general characterization of the philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
modern philosophers
Imagining a Gaian Reality After the Virus by Matthew Segall >>Click Here for a PDF of this blog post<<Download What follows is a brief paper outlining a path forward for post-pandemic humanity. It attempts to integrate Marxist critiques of capitalism with the efforts of contemporary Whiteheadian philosophers to compose an alternative ecological civilization. … https://youtu.be/YUMJ1rlCvPI [...]
https://youtu.be/FF6V78LNiLI Sean Kelly and I delivered this a few weeks ago at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA at our philosophy program's annual retreat.
https://youtu.be/GY2vDesht8o I read Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard, delivered in September 1924, which focuses on the metaphysical possibility of modern natural science. This lecture was just published in Process Studies 48.2. Here's a link to the interview of Lynn Margulis I mention at the beginning.
My lecture in two parts introducing German Idealism (focusing on Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Goethe, Hegel) https://youtu.be/uOgnlSUuYjI https://youtu.be/jvHSlu7wHWE
see also: Foreword to an upcoming anthroposophical book on twelve ways of seeing the world https://youtu.be/5KwJ5CC0xQo
UPDATE. Here's a video of our dialogue: https://youtu.be/9jlVjOILsCU Next Tuesday, October 22nd at 7pm, I'll be in dialogue with astrobiologist Bruce Damer about his hot spring hypothesis of the origins of life. For Bay Area locals, the event will take place at the Mission Street campus of California Institute of Integral Studies and is free [...]
Below are a couple of video sessions from my course on Whitehead's Process & Reality. https://youtu.be/ILOyq8ZuOXw https://youtu.be/J9trXkxiK5g
