FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Plato
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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Platonizing Biology: a dialogue with Michael Levin
Thanks to Karen for hosting this conversation on The Meaning Code. We started with a high level issue: the relationship between metaphysics and/or (philosophical) cosmology and the special sciences. I…
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The Integral Stage Authors Series (interview by Layman Pascal about “Crossing the Threshold”)
I’ve pasted the transcript below with timestamps (this is autogenerated from YouTube and so has some errors, but it is readable!). 0:34 welcome back to the author series on guess…
Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Brian Swimme, Catherine Keller, Coleridge, Copernican Revolution, Descartes, Fichte, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, Heidegger, Hume, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, Raimon Panikkar, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling, Wittgenstein -
Pre-order my new book ‘Crossing the Threshold’
My new book Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead is now available for pre-order (thanks to Revelore Press/Integral Imprint). Orders ship on…
Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Brian Swimme, Catherine Keller, Copernican Revolution, Descartes, Fichte, Galileo, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Raimon Panikkar, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling, Sean Kelly, Socrates, Spinoza, Steven Shaviro, William Blake, William James -
“Modes of Thought” (1938) by Alfred North Whitehead
I was re-reading Whitehead’s final book, Modes of Thought (1938), and decided I may as well record an audiobook version. Below is the YouTube playlist with all 9 lectures/chapters (click…
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Platonic Physics: In Dialogue with Wolfgang Smith
Here is my conversation, recorded yesterday, with Dr. Wolfgang Smith. His new book PHYSICS: A Science in Quest of an Ontology is available from many online bookstores. We discussed a…
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Six Lectures on Whitehead’s ‘Process and Reality’
Below is a series of six lectures originally recorded in 2017 going through each part of Alfred North Whitehead’s magnum opus Process and Reality.
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Thinking with Rudolf Steiner
It is hard to believe I’ve been thinking with Steiner for almost 15 years. He is, as the late BBC documentarian and author Jonathan Stedall put it in the title…
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In dialogue with Iain McGilchrist
See also my blog review of McGilchrist’s new book The Matter With Things.
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Standing Firm in the Flux: On Whitehead’s Eternal Objects (draft article)
The article to follow is a draft posted here for your review. As usual, I invite your comments and criticisms (Note that I have been continually updating the draft below…
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Infinite Weird Podcast: The Many Become One and Are Increased By One
Had a great time chatting with Matthew Sherling yesterday about my own journey, how I got into Whitehead’s work, and what his basic categories of concrescence and prehension mean.
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The Spirituality of Process Philosophy (dialogue with Preston Bryant)
Had a great time chatting with Preston this morning.
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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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Principles to Guide Philosophical Community (2021) By Eli Kramer (draft review)
The preprint book review below is forthcoming in World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research ….. ELI KRAMER, Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One: Principles to Guide Philosophical Community. Leiden,…
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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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Review of Timothy E. Eastman’s ‘Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context’ [DRAFT]
Click here for a PDF of this review, published in Process Studies. …. TIMOTHY E. EASTMAN, Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020: 344…
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Goethe and Whitehead: Steps to a Science of Organism
This essay was slated to be published in the Holistic Science Journal, but it looks like it will end up somewhere else later this year. I’ve been sitting on it…
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“Another End of the World is Possible” by Servigne, Stevens, and Chapelle
“How could we call ‘rational’ an ideal of civilization guilty of a forecasting error so massive that it prevents parents from leaving a habitable world to their children?”—Bruno Latour “The…
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HomeBrewed Christianity podcast with Tripp Fuller
Had a great time discussing Whitehead’s cosmology with Tripp. Check it out here: https://trippfuller.com/2021/09/13/matthew-segall-cosmology-consciousness-and-whiteheads-god/ We discussed topics including: the allure of Whitehead’s vision of mind in nature (knowledge as ‘an…
