Below are a couple of video sessions from my course on Whitehead's Process & Reality. https://youtu.be/ILOyq8ZuOXw https://youtu.be/J9trXkxiK5g
Sundays with Whitehead

"The safest general characterization of the philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
Below are a couple of video sessions from my course on Whitehead's Process & Reality. https://youtu.be/ILOyq8ZuOXw https://youtu.be/J9trXkxiK5g
“Our central idea is that concrete existence explains the abstract aspects of experience and not vice-versa.” -Auxier and Herstein “So long as necessity is taken to be the guarantor of rationality, the conception of rationality advocated will be as useless to science as it is to practical life.” -Auxier and Herstein Below I offer some [...]
The following is a lecture from a course I'm currently teaching called Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology: Toward a Physics of the World-Soul. Watch the PBS Space Time video first for context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJzoelANL_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOdhdT454N8 "The animal body is only the more highly organized and immediate part of the general environment for its dominant actual occasion [i.e., [...]
I'm headed halfway around the world today to present a paper at the IWC in Poland. Roland Faber, Catherine Keller, Herman Greene and others will be giving talks. I'll do my best to record and/or live blog during their remarks. I'll be presenting a paper in the religion section on the secularization of God in [...]
Below is another section of my dissertation proposal... ................... In What Is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari distinguish between a singular pedagogy of the concept and a universal encyclopedia of the concept.155 What does it mean to say that Deleuze’s philosophical method is pedagogical, rather than encyclopedic? It means that philosophical concepts are not catalogued in [...]
A colleague at CIIS presenting on Process Philosophy in Whitehead, Bergson, and Teilhard last Friday.
Conclusion: Towards a Physics of the World-Soul “In my view the creation of the world is the first unconscious act of speculative thought; and the first task of a self-conscious philosophy is to explain how it has been done.” -Whitehead239 “The religious insight is the grasp of this truth: That the order of the world, [...]