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Matthew David Segall, Phd, is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences and to the study of consciousness. He is the Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute.
Get his new book ‘Crossing The Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead’.
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In this podcast, we discuss crossing the Kantian divide, the role of imagination in perception, the impact of nominalism on the west, whitehead’s process philosophy and his panentheistic view of God, the open universe and the role of human freedom within it, and finally, the meaning crisis and the need to bridge the gap between academia and other communities.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and the Kantian Divide
04:59 Kant's Epistemological Dualism
07:34 The Role of Imagination in Kant's Philosophy
12:00 The Impact of Nominalism on Imagination
17:28 The Connection Between Imagination and Self-Transcendence
21:07 Whitehead's Cosmology and the Role of Imagination
25:26 Transcendental Apperception and Contextualization
29:16 Whitehead's Philosophy in Historical Context
36:53 Whitehead's Panentheistic View of God
46:06 Whitehead's View on Free Will and Determinism
50:04 Whitehead's View on Human Agency and Evolution
51:08 The Open Universe and Free-will
52:16 The Vegetable Universe
56:22 Life Precedes Matter
58:07 Death as Part of Life
59:32 Overcoming the Meaning Crisis
01:00:38 The Role of Religion in Finding Meaning
01:03:38 Translating Complex Ideas
#78 - Matt Segall - Reality, Free-will and The Kantian Divide