Stephen West returns: Citizens should log in and listen to the Aftershow on Whitehead featuring Dylan Casey and David Buchanan. Everyone can listen to the first chunk of the discussion now.
Ep 110 Aftershow: Whitehead on Nature
Featuring Stephen West of the Philosophize This! podcast, Dylan Casey, David Buchanan, and (eventually) Amogha Sahu. Recorded February 15, 2015.
Not School Happenings In February
Our Not School groups are reading Karl Jaspers, Charles Taylor, Paolo Friere, and possibly Woolf or Nabokov. Don’t forget the upcoming Aftershow discussion of Whitehead too. Come join up!
Episode 110: Alfred North Whitehead: What Is Nature?
On The Concept of Nature (1920). Nature, i.e. the object of our experience, is events, not things, ya dig?
Episode 110: Alfred North Whitehead: What Is Nature? (Citizen Edition)
On The Concept of Nature (1920). Nature, i.e. the object of our experience, is events, not things, ya dig?
End song: “Run Away,” by Mark Lint
Precognition of Ep. 110: Whitehead
Mark Linsenmayer outlines Alfred North Whitehead’s book The Concept of Nature (1920)
Precognition of Ep. 110: Whitehead
Mark Linsenmayer outlines Alfred North Whitehead’s book The Concept of Nature (1920)
Topic for #110: Whitehead’s “The Concept of Nature”
We read a foundational work in process philosophy, chock full of idiosyncratic four-dimensional geometry! Aw, yeah!
Carnap vs. Whitehead on Demonstration vs. Description
A feature of Carnap’s system discussed in the episode was his his attempt to objectivize our talk of objects by removing any demonstrative or ostensive elements. Though the “elementary experiences” as I examine them are of course mine, and not analyzable in themselves according to Carnap’s account, the only way they become useful to science is through their connection with Continue Reading …
Process Philosophy Explained
Thanks to Burl for including this link in a comment on this blog: Watch on YouTube. It’s an interesting take on energy here: energy being just a relationship between entities. So heat is the motion of particles, but what is this “motion” other than the fact that the relations between the particles changes in a lawlike way? The alternative might Continue Reading …
David Ray Griffin on Whitehead on Concsiousness
By crankular demand, I’m putting aside by irritation at hearing the name “Whitehead” to read this article on Whitehead’s theory of consciousness–Consciousness as a Subjective Form: Whitehead’s Nonreductionist Naturalism by David Ray Griffin–and see if it helps fill in the gaps in Pirsig’s account of experience. Griffin’s CV describes him as a “Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, Continue Reading …