"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
The following is a rough draft of an article I am preparing for a special issue of the journal Eidos (CfP here). I understand that the threefolding idea is likely to upset people on all sides of the political spectrum. I am sharing the article at this stage to invite criticism, as my aim is [...]
I'm winding down a cross-country road trip and had the pleasure of talking about it in the context of America's larger political predicament with Jeremy and Ryan on their "Growing Down" podcast. https://youtu.be/IypEa3CzmmM
Andrew Schwartz and I discussed Marx and Whitehead last week. Have a listen.
Here's Jacob Sherman, Joshua Ramey, and myself at yesterday's "1968 Revisited" conference at CIIS.edu. https://youtu.be/RBT-v4I_0mE?t=27m
This post is largely in response to this interview with the ecological Marxist John Bellamy Foster. Foster spends most of his time responding to criticisms of his work by Jason W. Moore. I haven't read Moore's work, so I'm not sure whether the misunderstanding of Latour arose with him or with Foster's characterization of the latters "constructionism" [...]
Levi Bryant has problematized my attempt to clarify Whitehead's position on the function of divinity in the universe. He writes: "You make the claim that without God there would be chaos and no order. This is a problematic claim for two reasons. First, you have repeatedly tried to claim that God isn't supposed to explain [...]
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