FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Plato
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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Lectures on Timothy Morton’s “Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People”
Process and Difference in the Pluriverse (opening lecture) My Spring course at CIIS.edu finishes up this week with a set of modules on Timothy Morton’s book Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People…
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Bruno Latour, Catherine Keller, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Donna Haraway, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, Evan Thompson, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, politics, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Schelling, Sean Kelly, speculative realism, Timothy Morton, William James -
“Psychedelics Today” podcast
Give a listen to my conversation with Kyle and Joe on their podcast Psychedelics Today. We discussed the intersection of philosophy and psychedelics.
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Fall 2018 Online Course: “Mind & Nature in German Idealism”
I’ll be offering this course for the second time in Fall 2018 at CIIS.edu (the semester runs from late August through mid-December). Special students and auditors are welcome to enroll!…
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Process and Difference in the Pluriverse: Plato, William James, & W.E.B. Du Bois
I’m sharing the lecture from the first module of my course this semester at CIIS.edu, PARP 6135: Process and Difference in the Pluriverse. The lecture discusses Plato’s Republic, William James’…
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Introduction to Process Philosophy
Below is a lecture recorded for the online course PARP 6060 02 – Introduction to Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS.edu. I first discuss the meaning of philosophy from a…
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Book Review of Dreyfus & Taylor’s “Retrieving Realism”
World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research just published my review of Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor’s book Retrieving Realism (2015). Read my review here (it may be behind…
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My Online Course this Fall: PARP 6133 – Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology
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…
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Brian Swimme, Catherine Keller, Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Descartes, Galileo, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, imagination, Kant, Kepler, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Spinoza, William James -
Diagramming German Idealism
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…
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“What if we talked politics a little?” By Bruno Latour
“If we are to accomplish the impossible feat of (re)composing a group from a multiplicity or, equally impossible, making a plurality obey a common order, it is necessary above all…
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A Rendition of Raphael’s “School of Athens”
A doctoral student in the course I co-taught last semester (Brief History of Western Thought) created this wonderful drawing based on Raphael’s “School of Athens.” Several of the figures are…
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Mind and Nature in German Idealism: A Spring Course at CIIS
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…
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Mind and Nature in German Idealism, a graduate course
I’m very excited to teach a 10-week online course at CIIS next semester (Spring 2017, running from Jan – Mar) called Mind and Nature in German Idealism. The course includes readings…
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Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead and Cosmology (2nd edition)
I decided to revise and republish a second edition of my 2013 monograph on the relevance of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy of organism to contemporary scientific cosmology. It should be…
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Minding Time: Chronos, Kairos, and Aion in an Archetypal Cosmos
Notes for a brief talk I gave today at CIIS. [Update (July 15, 2016): This talk was expanded into an article published in Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology] ……………………………………………………………………………….. “…what…
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Video of “The Psychedelic Eucharist: Toward a Pharmacological Philosophy of Religion”
A lecture I delivered yesterday (Sept. 29th, 2014) at CIIS for ERIE. Lecture notes
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Lecture: “The Psychedelic Eucharist: Towards a Pharmacological Philosophy of Religion” at CIIS this Monday (9/29) from 6-9pm
I’m giving another talk on Monday (9/29) on psychedelics (the last one was at Burning Man) as part of a panel discussion for the Entheogenic Research, Integration, and Education (ERIE)…
