Philosophical Essays

“If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road—so deep is its logos.
—Heraclitus

“Thoughts are an independent power, continuing to act on their own, growing in such a way that they restrain their own mother (the soul).”
—Schelling

“The account of the sixth day should be written, He gave them speech, and they became souls.”
—Whitehead

• “Carl Schmitt’s’ ‘Political Theology’: A Process Theological Intervention” (2022)

• “History and Importance of CIIS and PCC” coauthored with Robert McDermott (2022)

• “Standing Firm in the Flux: On Whitehead’s Eternal Objects” (2022)

• “The Urgency of Social Threefolding in a World Still at War With Itself” (2022)

• “The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis” coauthored with Bruce Damer (2022)

• “Time in Physics and Philosophy: Whiteheadian Reflections on Bergson, Einstein, and Rovelli” in Einstein vs Bergson: A Quarrel on Time (2022)

• “Goethe and Whitehead: Steps to a Science of Organism” in Holistic Science (2022)“

• “Philosophical and Religious Implications of Psychedelically Occasioned Mystical Experience and Belief Change” (2022)

• “Restoring Architecture’s Cosmic Context” in The Side View (2021)

• Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology (2021)

• “Alchemical Consciousness After Descartes: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism as Psychedelic Realism” (2021)

• “Wordsworth’s Poetic Vision of Nature in Light of Whitehead’s Organic Philosophy” (2021)

• “The Varieties of Physicalist Ontology: A Study in Whitehead’s Process-Relational Alternative” in Journal of Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (2020)

• “Why German Idealism Matters” in The Side View (2019)

• “Retrieving Realism: A Whiteheadian Wager” in International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (2017)

• “Whitehead and Media Ecology: Toward a Communicative Cosmos” in Process Studies (2020)

• “On the Place of Life in the Cosmos: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism and Contemporary Theoretical Biology” in Intuitive Life

• “Minding Time in an Archetypal Cosmos” in Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology

• “Religion in Human and Cosmic Evolution: Whitehead’s Alternative Vision” in Unprecedented Evolution (2020)

• “The Function of Reason and the Recovery of an Earthly Architecture” in Function Lab (2016)

• “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosophical Lessons for a Civilization in Crisis” in Beacon of Mind (2015)

• “Worldly Religion in Deleuze and Whitehead: On the Possibility of a Secular Divinity”

• The Re-Emergence of Schelling: Philosophy in a Time of Emergency (2014)

• “Logos of a Living Earth Toward a New Marriage of Science and Myth for Our Planetary Future” in World Futures (2012)

• “Imagination in the Speculative Philosophies of Plato, Schelling, and Whitehead”

• “Participatory Psychedelia: Transpersonal Theory, Religious Studies, and Chemically-Altered (Alchemical) Consciousness” in The Journal of Transpersonal Research (2010)

• “Remembering Creation: Towards a Christian Ecosophy”

• “The Spirit of Integral Poetry: Waring the Symbolism of Organism”

• “Religion and the Modern World: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism”

• On the Matter of Life: Towards an Integral Economics (2011)