Understanding Alfred North Whitehead with Matthew David Segall

Oct 12, 2024

Matthew David Segall, an Associate Professor in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness, dives into the profound impact of Alfred North Whitehead on modern philosophy. He discusses Whitehead's 'organic realism' and critiques of idealism while tracing his philosophical evolution and influences from contemporaries like Bertrand Russell. Segall also highlights the intersection of philosophy and consciousness, advocating for a holistic view that merges scientific inquiry with ecological consciousness. Their conversation teases the potential resurgence of idealism in today's intellectual landscape.

Ask episode

AI Snips

Chapters

Books

Transcript

Episode notes

ANECDOTE

Whitehead's Early Life

Alfred North Whitehead, born in 1861, was a rugby player in high school.
He later became a mathematician at Cambridge, co-authoring Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell.

INSIGHT

Whitehead's Organic Realism

Whitehead's process philosophy integrates idealism, analytic methods, and science.
This creates an organic realism where mind exists within nature, but nature isn't reducible to mind.

INSIGHT

Limits of Logic

Whitehead concluded that reality cannot be reduced to logic after the Principia Mathematica's failure.
This is because of inherent paradoxes and the intuitive nature of logic and mathematics.

Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode

Get the app

Understanding Alfred North Whitehead with Matthew David Segall

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.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on September 10, 2024)

Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove’s Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.

For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to https://youtu.be/aVbfPFGxv9o

For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listin….

Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.

To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com

If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.

To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see / 1953031791426543

To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n….

You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order Crossing the Threshold by Matthew David Segall, click here: https://amzn.to/3ZACcbA. (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)

To order Physics of the World Soul by Matthew David Segall, go to https://amzn.to/3BmoKhm

To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y

To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to https://amzn.to/4aw2iyr

To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to https://amzn.to/3Y0VOVh