Philosophical Speculations

The underlying ontology plays a huge role in suggesting such a frame is appropriate, which is why it is so important to firm up the ontology before anything else. I disagree that ontology should come before consideration of the sociohistorical contruction of knowledge, because it assumes that the o...

I'm not going to try and summarise Whitehead but Matthew Segall's site has a lot of good Whitehead stuff on it (eg he recently put up this video https://footnotes2plato.com/2020/12/10/voices-of-vr-podcast-a-primer-on-whiteheads-process-philosophy/ , though I haven't seen it yet). I agree that the de...

Whilst some forms of panpsychism may take conscious activity and "sticks it onto a bunch of material stuff" I wouldn't say Whitehead's does. It's more like a "microidealist" form of idealism. He says that his work could be likened to "a transformation of some main doctrines ...

I've completed a draft paper (https://www.academia.edu/45002566/Postone_and_Conceptions_of_Nature_Towards_an_anti_Materialist_Marxism) relating the work of social theorist Moishe Postone to panpsychism, which might be of interest to readers on this forum (a lot of what it says could be applied to id...

what are the joints and possible disjoints between the article and naturalism of analytical idealism? I've not read all the article, but I think idealism can be distinguished from indigenous perspectives in that idealism (like physicalism) tends to characterise the experienced world as illusory or ...

Who knows?? Maybe like the preSocratics or Plato's Timaeus.

Thomas Kuhn's ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/ ) famous work on scientific paradigms and theory choice contends that the factors which determine theory choice are "not fixed and neutral but vary and are dependent in particular on the disciplinary matrix within which the scienti...