FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Religion
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Spirituality and Justice: Reconciling Transcendence and Immanence
I was part of a panel at a Diversity Symposium at CIIS today.
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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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Evolution & Spirituality Course at Schumacher College This Summer
If you live in the UK, or if you are traveling there this summer, I’ll be teaching for one of Schumacher College’s 3-week intensive courses Monday, June 18th through Friday,…
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“The Limits of Intelligence”: A New Episode of the Waking Cosmos Podcast
Another new episode of the Waking Cosmos Podcast, produced by my friend Adrian Nelson.
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Process & Difference in the Pluriverse, an online course at CIIS.edu
A trailer for my course being offered this Spring at CIIS.edu. PARP 6135 Process and Difference in the Pluriverse will explore the ethical, social, political, and ecological implications of process-relational philosophy.…
Alfred North Whitehead, Bruno Latour, Catherine Keller, Darwin, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Graham Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, politics, race, reason, Religion, Simon Critchley, speculative realism, Timothy Morton, William James -
Whiteheadian commentary on contemporary scientific cosmology: Are the fundamental constants changing?
The following is a lecture from a course I’m currently teaching called Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology: Toward a Physics of the World-Soul. Watch the PBS Space Time video first for…
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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 -
Erowid’s Psychedelic Encyclopedia at CIIS
This conversation with Earth and Fire Erowid (of erowid.org) at CIIS back in January was supposed to be recorded for a podcast, but alas, due to technical difficulties, the sound…
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Fragments on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Below are a few reflections after teaching a module on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit this past week. My natural inclinations draw me to Schelling’s Naturphilosophie, but every time I return to…
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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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A talk on Ecodelic Philosophy at the Symbiosis Gathering
I’m headed back to the Symbiosis Gathering later this year. I’ll be offering a talk on the role of psychedelics–or “ecodelics” as author Richard Doyle refers to them–and the philosophical insights…
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My first course, Spring 2017 at CIIS
I’ll be teaching my first graduate level course next Spring at CIIS. I have a lot of reading and research to do between now and then.Please do add to my list…
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Defeating Daesh
It is clear that American foreign policy and Western colonialism more generally have played a huge role in fanning the flames of “Islamic” terrorism. I’m heartened by the many peaceful…
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Religion, Ecology, Race, and Cultural Evolution
“Today we cannot ignore that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach and should integrate justice in discussions on the environment to hear both the cry of the…
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Pope Francis an Integral Ecologist?
Next week, Pope Francis will release an encyclical on the role of Catholics in the ecological crisis. According to John Grimm (Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University), “Francis…
