Understanding Alfred North WhiteheadwithMatthew David Segall

Matthew David Segall

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Matt Segall, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute. He is author of Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead, and Physics of the World Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology. His website is https://footnotes2plato.com/about-me/

Here he brings to life the many historical influences, comparisons, and nuances in the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

00:00 Introduction

02:24 Historical context

10:08 Wittgenstein and logical positivism

16:38 British and German idealism

25:45 Romanticism and esoteric thought

35:52 Descendental vs. transcendental

44:44 Science, technology, and philosophy

47:45 Whitehead and the paranormal

49:27 Can science integrate “etheric imagination”?

53:42 Conclusion

(Recorded on September 10, 2024)

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