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Levi Bryant Misreading Whitehead?
Re-posting my comment to Bryant’s recent criticism of Whitehead and process-relational thought below: Levi, I’m not so sure treating an actual occasion as a “bundle of prehensions” is at all faithful...
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Whitehead’s Process Atomism (response to Graham Harman)
Graham Harman has jumped in offering his own response to my recent comment directed at Levi Bryant regarding his interpretation of Whitehead. The core issue, for Harman, is whether Whitehead’s position...
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[Conclusion] The Relevance of Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism to...
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...
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Josefina Burgos - "Becoming: A Concept Where Science and Philosophy Can Meet"
Reblogged from The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Forum: A colleague at CIIS presenting on Process Philosophy in Whitehead, Bergson, and Teilhard last Friday.
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Deleuze’s Pedagogy of Problematic Ideas as an Example of Etheric Imagination
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...
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9th International Whitehead Conference in Kracow, Poland
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...
View ArticleWhiteheadian commentary on contemporary scientific cosmology: Are the...
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....
View ArticleWhitehead’s Quantum of Explanation: Thinking with Auxier and Herstein
“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...
View ArticleSundays with Whitehead
Below are a couple of video sessions from my course on Whitehead's Process & Reality. https://youtu.be/ILOyq8ZuOXw https://youtu.be/J9trXkxiK5g
View ArticleEins und Alles _ Goethe
My German is schrecklich, but since I couldn’t find any translations I liked, I spent the afternoon struggling with Goethe’s poem “Eins und Alles” (“One and All”), with a dictionary and several other...
View ArticleConstructive 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?...
View ArticleProcess Philosophy of Science
I’m pasting a dialogue that I’m having on Facebook with Steven Goodheart here so others can chime in if they so please! ——————————————————————— Steven remarked that my comment about the paradox of...
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Process Ontology in Schelling and Whitehead
In preparation for a larger speculative project, I’ve been reading a translation by Judith Norman of the 2nd draft of Schelling’s unfinished manuscript entitled Ages of the World (1813). I’ve been...
View ArticleImagining the Cosmos: notes on my dissertation…
In the past year or so, the blueprint of my dissertation topic has gone through multiple iterations. Last year, while applying for my PhD studies at CIIS, I wrote a goal statement that still reflects...
View ArticleOntology and God: a further response to Levi Bryant
I posted the following as a comment to Bryant’s short response. Adam Robbert has a nice comment there, too. There is no necessary relationship between OOO (or ontology generally) and theology or...
View ArticleIn Defense of Wonder: A response to Naught Thought on Whitehead’s Philosophy...
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...
View ArticleTowards a Cosmotheandric Re-orientation: Response to Knowledge-Ecology
Adam Robbert over at Knowledge-Ecology recently responded to After Nature’s (Leon Niemoczynski) post on anthrodecentrism in Object-Oriented Ontology. I’ve visited this topic several times lately, but...
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Occasionalism in Whitehead and Harman
An important discussion continues to unfold in the comment section of this post over at Knowledge-Ecology. We are trying to figure out what metaphysical work Whitehead’s eternal objects do, among other...
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God and the Chaosmos: Thinking with Catherine Keller
Several months ago, a discussion erupted across the SR/OOO blogosphere concerning the implications of various forms of nihilistic and theistic realism. Some of my critiques have since ended up in a...
View ArticleThe Eternal Form of Philosophy (a response to Archive Fire)
Michael/Archive Fire has just written a gracious and astute response to my recent comment about Whitehead’s reformed Platonism. He has made me aware of the fact that my referring to Whitehead or to...
View ArticleWhitehead’s Endo-Theology
Levi Bryant/Larval Subjects has laid down a clear and clarifying plumb-line definition for a contentious word that finds itself being thrown around the OOO blogosphere from time to time:...
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