FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Romantic Philosophy
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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Prehension: Is Experience Fundamental?
Brendan Graham Dempsey and I connected again to continue our discussion, this time focusing on Whitehead’s concept of “prehension.” I explained that, contrary to Ken Wilber’s placement of the concept…
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Kant, Reality, Freedom: Dialoguing with Mahon McCann
Timestamps: The podcast begins with an introduction and a discussion on the “Kantian Divide,” exploring how this divide has shaped modern philosophy. This segment delves into Kant’s concept of epistemological…
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Debating the Place of the Human in Cosmology with Brendan Graham Dempsey
After some back and forth in his Facebook group, Brendan was gracious enough to invite me on his Metamodernism podcast to discuss several core ideas, including the nature of scientific…
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Cosmic History in Steiner and Whitehead (dialogue with Formscapes)
This was a really fun conversation with Formscapes (check out his content on YouTube). The dialogue begins with Whitehead’s ideas on hybrid prehension and how they might relate to Steiner’s…
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Register for McGilchrist Conference
Registration is now open for in-person and online attendance at the Metaphysics and the Matter With Things conference. We expect the limited number of in-person tickets to sell out quickly.…
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Navigating Kantian Thought with John Vervaeke
This dialogue with John Vervaeke about my new book Crossing the Threshold was recorded earlier this year. Claude’s summary: The book discusses overcoming Kant’s epistemological barrier between the world and…
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Seminar Series next month on Process Approaches to the Philosophy of Biology
The Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee, which I chair, will be hosting a series of seminars next month featuring the contributors to a new book, Process-Philosophcal Perspectives on Biology: Intuiting…
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Metaphysics and the Matter With Things: Thinking With Iain McGilchrist
I’m very excited to announce that my graduate program (Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS) and the Center for Process Studies are cohosting a conference March 29-31, 2024 focused on…
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Darwin, Descartes, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Goethe, Hegel, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, imagination, john Keats, Kant, Meister Eckhart, Modern Philosophy, Plato, poetry, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, William James -
Energy is Information, Information is Communication: Thinking with Vervaeke and Henriques
Have a listen to Greg Henriques and John Vervaeke exploring the limits of reductive naturalism and the dangerous of decadent romanticism: John and Greg got some thoughts stirring, which I…
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Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism: Turning Idealism Inside Out [draft article]
Below is a draft of a chapter I was asked to write for a book on Cambridge Idealism. It is still a bit rough in places and I’ll be continuing…
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NYTimes profile on mycologist Merlin Sheldrake mentions Whitehead (and me)
Today’s New York Times featured a profile on my friend, mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. In addition to discussing the philosophical implications of his scientific research, the article shares a bit about…
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Crossing the Threshold on the War Machine Podcast
Yet another podcast discussing my book, this time with Matt from the War Machine podcast. We talk theurgy, the role of feeling and willing in our thinking, and how to…
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From German Idealism to Anthroposophy: The Spiritual Scientist Podcast
Mick Young invited me on his Spiritual Scientist podcast to discuss the importance of German Idealism in Rudolf Steiner’s development. I introduce the concept of ‘etheric imagination’ as a form…
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Rudolf Steiner and Racism
Update Jan 31, 2024: The conversation continues on our Urphänomen Substack page. As a teacher, I do my best to actively encourage deep and sustained dialogue about the racism, implicit…
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Mind and Life in the Cosmos
I’m sharing a version of a lecture I delivered for the Pari Center earlier this morning.
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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 -
My presentation at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies
This presentation was given on February 16, 2023 at the Claremont United Church of Christ. My paper was titled “Physics Within the Bounds of Feeling Alone.” The draft is available…
