FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Tag: metaphysics
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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11th International Whitehead Conference (2017 in the Azores)
The 11th International Whitehead Conference will be hosted by the University of the Azores on Sao Miguel Island. The conference website is now up. The title of the 2017 conference…
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The Varieties of Materialism: Matter as the Play of Form
Following up on my contribution to the Latour/AIME reading group, I wanted to say a bit more about the confused concept called “matter.” There are many varieties of materialism, but…
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John Caputo on Speculative Realism
Thanks to Adam/Knowledge-Ecology for pointing me to this one. I really dig what he says about physics and science… These posts are relevant to some of what Caputo has to…
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Reflections on Thomas Nagel’s mentions of Schelling and Whitehead in “Mind and Cosmos”
The aim of this book is to argue that the mind-body problem is not just a local problem, having to do with the relation between mind, brain, and behavior in…
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James Hillman on Metaphysics and Cosmology
Back in 1983, Claremont Graduate School invited Whiteheadian philosophers and Jungian psychoanalysts to a dialogue concerning possible cross-fertilizations between process metaphysics and archetypal psychology (published as Archetypal Process: Self and…
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Esotericism and the Academy at the American Academy of Religion in San Francisco
Phoenix Rising at the AAR Meeting Saturday Nov. 19th!. Some of these papers look great. The problem of how to traverse the disciplinary boundary between esoterica and academia is one…
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In Defense of Wonder: A response to Naught Thought on Whitehead’s Philosophy of Dawn
I cannot, without much hesitation, identify myself as either a “prickly” or a “gooey” philosopher. It depends on who my interlocutors are. If I am in a philosophical conversation with, say, a…
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Questions about Objects: “I” Myself and the Earth
I’ve just finished Harman’s Guerilla Metaphysics, and I’m thoroughly confused by what he had to say about time and space in the final pages. The following is an initial attempt…
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Objective Caricatures
The following is my response to a colleague and friend’s recent post on object-oriented ontology over at The New Knowledge Ecology. ————————————— It is probably possible to distinguish between a defense of…
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Constructive v. Critical Philosophy – Responding to Isabelle Stengers at CGU
Once it has begun to swallow the overwhelmingly wondrous fact of existence–that there is anything at all!–philosophy can perhaps catch its breath and ask the most fundamental question: what is there? From…
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Religion: Tony Blair v. Christopher Hitchens
my rough transcription of some of what Blair and Hitchens had to say (not necessarily in order): Tony Blair: “Fanaticism is not confined to the sphere of religious life… My…
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Rupert Sheldrake and Morphic Fields at Schumacher
My time at Schumacher is drawing to a close, and the whole experience has been quite formative for me. Preparing meals, washing dishes, and weeding the garden provided unexpected opportunities…
