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Why Natural Science Would Be Better Off Without Physicalist Metaphysics
I enjoyed my chat with James Faulk the other day. Here’s the video: I had a mustache for like 5 minutes a few years ago. I have had to accept that online the stache may be restacked forever. Anyway. Here’s a recap of what was basically a long argument about why natural science is not… Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Carl Jung, Copernican Revolution, Descartes, Heraclitus, imagination, James Hillman, Kant, Leibniz, Modern Philosophy, reason, Religion, Spinoza
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What is the grass?: Response to Arthur Haswell’s Pan-Pathism
When I turn away from world-weariness, the child in me finds room to wonder, What is the grass? Is it the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven? Is it a scented gift designedly dropped by God? Or, is it the beautiful uncut hair of graves? Walt Whitman was a cosmic optimist, but he was not… Read more
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On Genesis: Toward a New Evolutionary Theology
The Rosy Crux The central issue is not simply whether Hegel is right, or whether we can derive a more empirically grounded metaphysics than absolute idealism from Darwin’s humble hypothesis of descent with variation. I agree with Charles Taylor that Hegel’s treatment of historical evolution is “disastrous.” By my lights what we are in urgent need of… Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Darwin, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, imagination, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, reason
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Raymond Ruyer, or The Embryogenesis of Philosophy (dialogue with Pedro Brea and Jack Bagby)
Transcript: Dialogue on Raymond Ruyer with Jack and Pedro Matt: Well, I had already been reading some Raymond Ruyer—is that how you pronounce it? Jack: Yeah. Matt: Close enough? Okay. I guess it was you, Jack, who first suggested him a while ago because of my interest in Whitehead. I finally got around to it. Maybe a month… Read more
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A Serpent in the Garden of Clarity: On Whitehead’s Not So Casual Use of “Casual”
In our last Whitehead Research Project editorial board meeting, a very interesting issue came up as the critical edition of Science and the Modern World moves toward publication. It turns out that the position of a single “s” opens a huge can of metaphysical worms. In Science and the Modern World, there is a passage… Read more
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Intelligent Design Meets Process Philosophy: My dialogue with Stephen Meyer
It was rather serendipitous that a media agent representing Stephen Meyer reached out to me several weeks ago, since the Discovery Institute’s work popularizing intelligent design had just been brought up in a comment exchange I was having. The agent shared a link to the new film, The Story of Everything, which is based on Meyer’s book Return of… Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Brian Swimme, Darwin, Kant, Religion
“In one sense philosophy does nothing. It merely satisfies the entirely impractical craving to probe and adjust ideas which have been found adequate each in its special sphere of use. In the same way the ocean tides do nothing. Twice daily they beat upon the cliffs of continents and then retire. But have patience and look deeper; and you find that in the end whole continents of thought have been submerged by philosophic tides, and have been rebuilt in the depths awaiting emergence. The fate of humanity depends upon the ultimate continental faith by which it shapes its action, and this faith is in the end shaped by philosophy.”
—Alfred North Whitehead
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