Quote: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
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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