Urphänomen Reading Group: Rudolf Steiners Interdisciplinary Astronomy (GA 323) Footnotes2Plato 2023-08-12 | Join us for this reading group on Tuesdays at 9am Pacific beginning August 22, 2023. Email ArchetypalPhenomenon@gmail.com for the Zoom link.youtube.com/@UC9rNlorJ_9dsD2mFRS3YUNw
Whiteheads Philosophy of Organism: Turning Idealism Inside Out Footnotes2Plato 2023-08-02 | My presentation summarizing the paper linked below at the 13th International Whitehead Conference hosted by the Munich School of Philosophy. Introduced by Godehard Brüntrup.Link to paper I am summarizing: footnotes2plato.com/2023/06/21/whiteheads-philosophy-of-organism-turning-idealism-inside-out-draft-article
Love and Death in the Gaianthropocene (Prologue to my talk at Boom Festival) Footnotes2Plato 2023-07-13 | boomfestival.org/boom2023/program/liminal-village/matthew-segall/talk
Energy is Information, Information is Communication: A Panexperiential Process-Relational Ontology Footnotes2Plato 2023-07-11 | response to: youtu.be/ooAsL46yz68For more on what a communicative ontology would look like, see my article in "Process Studies" on Whitehead and Media Ecology: matthewsegall.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/06_segall_ps-48_2-text.pdf
Cosmic Embryogenesis (dialoguing with Brian Tierney) Footnotes2Plato 2023-07-06 | Find out more about Brian's work here: somaticdoctor.com/about
New Age Spirituality and the Future of Humanity Footnotes2Plato 2023-06-14 | Dialoguing with Doug Scott about the Ra Material and Law of One, drawing connections to Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology and to Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy.Doug's links: cosmicchrist.netdougscottcounseling.com
Participatory Philosophy and the Meta-Crisis Footnotes2Plato 2023-06-05 | From Everything Everywhere All At Once to Dwelling Together in Reciprocal Interplay
Module 9 Lecture: Designs for the Pluriverse (cont) Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-29 | lecture on part three of Arturo Escobar's "Designs for the Pluriverse"
Module 8 Lecture: Designs for the Pluriverse Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-29 | lecture on parts 1 and 2 of Arturo Escobar's book Designs for the Pluriverse
Module 4 Lecture: Staying With the Trouble Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-29 | lecture for module 4 on Donna Haraway's "Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene" (2016)
Module 3 Lecture: Planetary Entanglements Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-29 | lecture on the second half of Catherine Keller's "Cloud of the Impossible"
Module 2 Lecture: Cosmopolitical Speculations Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-29 | mod 2 lecture on Keller's Cloud of the Impossible
Module 1 Lecture: Situating Pluralism Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-29 | Plato, James, Du Bois - Process and Difference in the Pluriverse - Spring 2023
The End of Philosophy of Freedom By Rudolf Steiner Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-24 | link to the Urphanomen 'Philosophy of Freedom' reading group playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEt-RrSrz7JOk3zjVXAjEdkQGzzrOV67j
Rudolf Steiner: Challenge and Opportunity Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-22 | Our Urphänomen dialogue a few days ago about Steiner and racism: youtu.be/s_3RZ5CwRn4 Orland Bishop: youtu.be/Xvvg9XLZBgESee also: footnotes2plato.com/2023/05/20/rudolf-steiner-and-racism
Mind and Life in the Cosmos Footnotes2Plato 2023-05-06 | Trial run to gauge the timing of a talk I'll give for the Pari Center tomorrow.
Book Release Event for Crossing the Threshold Footnotes2Plato 2023-04-30 | recorded Sat April 29 at noon Pacific in my footnotes2plato discordThe book "Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead" (2023): amzn.to/3LgK9Kg
Schelling’s philosophy of nature (reply to Chris Satoor) Footnotes2Plato 2023-04-05 | Reply to youtu.be/qVbRtew2fTI
Owen Barfield: Consciousness is the inside of the whole world. Footnotes2Plato 2023-03-21 | Barfield in his own words, from a Vancouver Institute lecture delivered on October 14, 1978. Complete lecture available here: open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/12708/items/1.0340901?o=0&fbclid=IwAR1ghk9KzwPGcinGK1d-yN5_OfwmPQ85-hWbCzsc_gLY5H0jSafvVg7NczQ
From Kant to an Organic View of Reality: Voices of VR podcast with Kent Bye Footnotes2Plato 2023-03-09 | Kent Bye recently interviewed me about process philosophy and my new book.Link to audio version: voicesofvr.com/1183-from-kant-to-an-organic-view-of-reality-scaffolding-a-process-relational-paradigm-shift-with-whitehead-scholar-matt-segall
New Book! “Crossing the Threshold” on Etheric Imagination in Schelling and Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-03-08 | Pre-order: amzn.to/3Zym7jB
Are there limits to knowledge?: Thinking with Rudolf Steiner Footnotes2Plato 2023-02-23 | Reading and commenting on Ch. 7 of Rudolf Steiner's book 'The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception' (1918)Urphänomen reading group: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEt-RrSrz7JOk3zjVXAjEdkQGzzrOV67jEmail ArchetypalPhenomenon@gmail.com to join.
Physics Within the Bounds of Feeling Alone (Center for Process Studies 50th Anniversary Conference) Footnotes2Plato 2023-02-20 | Presented at The 50th Anniversary conference of the Center for Process Studies on Feb 16, 2023: ctr4process.org/50years/vision Link to my paper: footnotes2plato.com/2023/02/05/physics-within-the-bounds-of-feeling-alone-draft-article
Test run of ‘Physics Within the Bounds of Feeling Alone’ Footnotes2Plato 2023-02-16 | reading through a conference paper I'm presenting tomorrow morning
I AM - Thinking with Adam, Aristotle, Goethe, Steiner, and Barfield Footnotes2Plato 2023-02-04 | Also thinking with friends on The Exceptional State: youtu.be/DeQgqqQeDRI
Ch. 9: The Aim of Philosophy - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | reading Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" (1938)
Ch. 8: Nature Alive - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | reading Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" (1938)
Ch. 7: Nature Lifeless - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | reading Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" (1938)
Ch. 6: Civilized Universe - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | reading Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" (1938)
Ch. 5: Forms of Process - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | reading Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" (1938)
Ch. 4: Perspective - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | reading from Alfred North Whitehead's "Modes of Thought" (1938)
Ch. 3: Understanding - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | readings "Modes of Thought" (1938) by Alfred North Whitehead
Ch. 2: Expression - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | reading from Whitehead's book "Modes of Thoughts" (1938)
Ch. 1: Importance - Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-24 | Reading from Alfred North Whitehead's book "Modes of Thought" (1938)
Platonic Physics: In Dialogue with Wolfgang Smith Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-23 | Dr. Smith's new book PHYSICS: A Science in Quest of an Ontology: philos-sophia.lnk.to/PhysicsTimestamps: 1:44 14 year old Wolfgang reading Whitehead3:20 Why mathematics?5:10 What did ancient philosophers like Plato understand about the cosmos that modern Cartesian science has forgotten?9:15 Wholeness in physics and mathematics16:36 Whitehead's difference from Russell as regards the failure of the 'Principia Mathematica' project19:18 The influence of Whitehead's protest against bifurcation28:00 The confusions of contemporary physics begin with the retinal image theory of perception40:50 The hard problem of consciousness 42:30 Quantum physics and Plato's tripartite ontology1:08:40 Comparison to Whitehead's process ontology 1:13:41 Wolfgang does not think biological evolution is possible (more complex organisms cannot come from simpler organisms)1:16:44 John Berger's question for Wolfgang about the tripartite ontology1:21:32 Whitehead as a Platonist; the primordial nature of God as vertical causality 1:24:49 Is evolutionary history, including the history of humanity, simply a meaningless illusion?
Spirituality Today: Perennialist or Evolutionary? Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-23 | Ashton and I reflecting on the merits of evolutionary forms of spirituality in comparison with traditionalist or perennialist approaches, which tend to reject everything about the modern world. Note that my dialogue with Wolfgang Smith will be published tomorrow on this channel.
Whiteheads Process & Reality: Part II (Ch. 5-10), Discussions & Applications Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-07 | I discuss part II, chapters 5 through 10, of "Process & Reality"
Whiteheads Process & Reality: Part III, The Theory of Prehensions Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-07 | module 4 lecture
Whiteheads Process & Reality: Part IV, The Theory of Extension Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-07 | part 4 of Process and Reality
Whiteheads Process & Reality: Part V, The Final Interpretation Footnotes2Plato 2023-01-07 | lecture on Part V of Process and Reality
Emblem of the World - Ralph Waldo Emerson Footnotes2Plato 2022-12-26 | from "Nature" (1849) emersoncentral.com/texts/nature-addresses-lectures/nature2
Riddles of Philosophy by Rudolf Steiner: Part 2, Ch. 8: Introducing Anthroposophy Footnotes2Plato 2022-12-22 | patreon.com/urphanomen
