Pedro Brea

Pedro Brea, PhD is a Lecturer at the University of Colorado’s Boulder and Denver campuses. His research focuses on the ontology and axiology of process philosophy. Some of his recent publications include papers on Bergson and Deleuze based on his doctoral dissertation, where he developed a process-relational critique of energy concepts in physics and philosophy. These works serve as the foundation for his current pursuit of a process ontology of energy. He is also interested in metaethics and aesthetics, and is inspired on this front especially by Henri Bergson, Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch, and Plato. His interest in the philosophy of mind stems from his belief that an embodied account of consciousness is necessary to bridge the gap between ontology and ethics that is a hallmark of the bifurcation of nature. The work he is presenting at the Mind-at-Large Conference is his first attempt to bridge ethics, process ontology, and embodied phenomenology in one place.