Tag: idealism

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May 16, 2025

The Invariance of Variation: Or Why Metaphysics Must Become Ungrounded (Dialogue with Tim Jackson)

Above, Tim Jackson and I dialogue about a number of conversations we watched, including: Matt Segall: So this is going to be laid back. We didn’t read anything, but we…
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Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Carl Jung, Darwin, David Chalmers, Descartes, Fichte, Galileo, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Heraclitus, Hume, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion, Schelling, Sean Kelly, Socrates, Spinoza, Wittgenstein
October 18, 2023

Panpsychist Pluralism

The following is based on a revised transcript of a recent lecture. Anyone paying attention to academic philosophy over the last decade or so will have noticed the new philosophical…
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Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, David Chalmers, Heraclitus, Isabelle Stengers, Modern Philosophy, William James
March 7, 2022

Dialogue with Bernardo Kastrup: Translating between Analytic Idealism and Process-Relationalism

My long-overdue conversation with Bernardo Kastrup is above. I am pleased with how this turned out. We mostly attempted to translate between our respective orientations, finding many overlaps despite differences…
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Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Carl Jung, Darwin, David Chalmers, Descartes, Fichte, Hume, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Owen Barfield, Plato, reason, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Spinoza, William James
November 25, 2018

Integrating Space-Time: Non-Dual Idealism, or Physics of the World-Soul?

Metaphysics is serious play. Serious because (if done well) it demands a reckoning with death, with limit as such, with finitude and necessity. Play because (if done well) it frees…
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Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Modern Philosophy
October 22, 2015

Schelling’s Descendental Philosophy (and its Whiteheadian resonances)

Much of the rather fragmentary thoughts to follow were spurred by my reading of Jason Wirth’s wondrous little essay in the HUGE Palgrave Companion to German Idealism (2014), “Nature of…
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Alfred North Whitehead, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling
April 10, 2013

Iain Hamilton Grant Interview

Leon Niemoczynski has posted a FANTASTIC interview with Iain Hamilton Grant. A small sample to wet your appetite: As directly as possible, Idealism is that philosophy that affirms the reality…
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Iain Hamilton Grant, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Schelling
September 23, 2012

Whiteheadian thoughts on the thingliness of ideas (responses to Archive Fire and Knowledge Ecology)

Michael/Archive Fire and Adam/Knowledge Ecology are at it again, working to sort through the material, semiotic, and ideational strands of the cosmic mesh to figure out what is real and…
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Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, Graham Harman
January 18, 2012

Tilting at windmill materialism: Towards an Ontology of Organism (OoO)

Adam at Knowledge-Ecology has posted some reflections on the issues at stake in the confrontation between philosophical realism and philosophical materialism. Levi Bryant (Larval Subjects) and Michael (Archive-Fire) place their…
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Alfred North Whitehead, Graham Harman, Hegel, Jakob Böhme, Levi Bryant, Steven Shaviro
October 20, 2010

Idealism, Materialism, Non-dualism

A response to Owlmirror on Pharyngula, You suggest that idealism is incoherent because 1) it doesn’t explain “things acting under purely physical rules, rather than mental states.” -What is a…
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