Footnotes2Plato

I went to my first Phish concert on Saturday night at Dick’s in Denver.

I was back in Aspen, CO this past weekend for the second annual Frontiers of Knowledge event at Wheeler Opera House.

This seminar was hosted by Joe Lightfoot here in Chiang Mai.

The audio is available above, but it is poor quality.

Max Wade: My dissertation was on Plotinus’ ontology of artifacts, basically looking at Plotinus as a philosopher of technology.

I enjoyed my chat with James Faulk the other day.

When I turn away from world-weariness, the child in me finds room to wonder, What is the grass?

The Rosy Crux The central issue is not simply whether Hegel is right, or whether we can derive a more empirically grounded metaphysics than absolute idealism from Darwin’s humble hypothesis of descent with variation.

Transcript: Dialogue on Raymond Ruyer with Jack and Pedro Matt: Well, I had already been reading some Raymond Ruyer—is that how you pronounce it?

In our last Whitehead Research Project editorial board meeting, a very interesting issue came up as the critical edition of Science and the Modern World moves toward publication.

It was rather serendipitous that a media agent representing Stephen Meyer reached out to me several weeks ago, since the Discovery Institute’s work popularizing intelligent design had just been brought up in a comment exchange I was having.

An LLM summary based on the transcript of my panel discussion with Ed Kelly and Iain McGilchrist, moderated by Curt Jaimungal, at last week’s Mind-at-Large conference.

The following is a transcript of my talk last week at our Mind-at-Large Project’s inaugural conference, “A New Dawn.”

A recap of my remarks on Day 2’s Mind-at-Large Conference Plenary Panel (also featuring Ed Kelly and Iain McGilchrist, moderated by Curt Jaimungal).

LLM transcript of my chat with Seekers Mindtalks.

Was there ever a time before metaphysics?

Nathan Hawkins and I just finished a podcast recording (above) that I hope will contribute to amplifying the deeper notes that are still just barely audible beneath the surface noise of the culture war.

We finished our Hartmut Rosa reading group this morning (recordings are available here).

I came to this city at the edge of the continent as so many dreamers before me following the westward winds of time like the gold-glinting eyes of greedy men who mistook the ocean’s endless horizon for a promise made only to them.

The frogs are croaking on my left down in the Eel River, and on my right is the low roar of semis on the 101.

Rahul Samaranayake has had me on his podcast a few times over the years, including an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year.