Tag: Science
In this piece, Steve McIntosh reads the combined philosophies of Teilhard de Chardin and Whitehead as a diagnostic tool for the noosphere's political present. Tracing the structural sequence of evolutionary emergence, he argues that modernity and progressive postmodernity are best understood as successive worldviews in a dialectical sequence, thesis and…
This six-session course taught by Josh Hogins and Matt Segall introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, emphasizing its application to modern science and cosmology. It explores the applications of process thought to physics, biology, and neuroscience, as well as its potential for integrating natural science and the humanities.…
Physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín and Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee chair Matt Segall will come together to discuss Dr. Gomez-Marin's recent experiments on “scopaesthesia” and on “extraocular vision,” exploring how these phenomena can be given coherent interpretation from a process philosophical perspective.…
In this presentation and conversation, Arran Gare and Matthew Segall will examine work in theoretical biology that might advance the way we understand mathematics and narratives, and their relation to each other and reality, and thereby how we should understand science and the humanities and their relationship to one another.…
In this piece, Ruth Kastner carries Iain McGilchrist's thesis about the divided brain into the foundations of physics. The quantum level, she argues, is the true Master, and the classical world only its Emissary: a user interface between the observer and the whole of physical reality. Reading that asymmetry through…
The Center for Process Studies has been awarded a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to launch an innovative interdisciplinary project entitled Modern Meaning: Spiritual Yearning and the Quest for a Flourishing World. The initiative brings together scholars from philosophy, theology, psychology, and the natural sciences to investigate one of…
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Join us Sunday, August 23rd at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen for Frontiers of Knowledge, a mind-expanding day of conversation with world-renowned scientists, philosophers, and authors. This Year's Speakers: SCARLETT Max, Dr. Chantal Noa Forbes, David M. Peña-Guzmán, Matthew David Segall, Garth Stevenson, Dr. Lindsay Branham, Andreas Weber, Carl…
In this process pop-up, Christie Byers will explore what it might mean to teach science as if the world were alive. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, she shares an approach to elementary science education that shifts away from viewing nature as inert and mechanical, and toward experiencing it…
The Center for Process Studies is proud to announce the launch of the Process & Science Network (PSN), a new program dedicated to cultivating rigorous dialogue between process philosophy and the natural sciences. PSN was established in response to the growing inadequacies of the dominant worldview of scientific materialism which…
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