Process & Reality: Alfred North Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Organic Realism

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Matthew Segall is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is an expert of German Idealism and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

Matthew joins Breht for a wide-ranging conversation on the philosophy of Aflred Whitehead, pan-experientialism, dialectics, organic realism, Marxism, Buddhism, materialism v. idealism, criticism of scientific materialism, nature mysticism, philosophy of mind, and much, much more!

Learn more about Matthew and his work: https://footnotes2plato.com/

Gaian Reality After the Virus: https://matthewsegall.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/updated-segall-imagining-a-gaian-reality-after-the-virus.pdf

Outro Music: "The Passenger" by Iggy Pop

-----

Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft

LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.
0:08.8	On today's episode I have a great conversation for you.
0:11.4	I have on Professor Matthew Siegel to talk about the process philosophy of Alfred North
0:17.6	Whitehead, but we also touch on Marx's dialectics.
0:20.6	We touch on Buddhism as I'm often want to do.
0:24.1	We talk about Einsteinian theory and scientific materialism and Hageli and idealism and so
0:31.6	many other things.
0:32.6	It's a really fascinating deep dive discussion on a really crucial philosopher and opening
0:38.5	up that web of connections to philosophy, more broadly to ecology, to spirituality, to
0:45.8	religion, to mysticism, etc.
0:47.8	A really wide range and fascinating conversation.
0:50.6	Matthew Siegel is assistant professor in the Philosophy Cosmology and Consciousness
0:55.4	program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
1:00.0	He teaches graduate courses applying process philosophy to various disciplines including
1:05.2	the natural and social sciences as well as the study of consciousness.
1:09.7	He is an expert on both the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead as well as German
1:14.4	idealism or broadly and we have a discussion about all of it.
1:18.6	He is really, really fascinating and I know you'll enjoy it.
1:21.3	As always, if you like what we do here at RevLeft Radio, we are 100% listener funded.
1:26.8	This month marks five years on the air and if you want to continue to support the show
1:31.5	and make this show possible, you can join us at patreon.com forward slash RevLeft Radio
1:37.2	in an exchange for a few dollars every single month you have access to not only monthly
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Breht O'Shea, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Breht O'Shea and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.