#78 - Matt Segall - Reality, Free-will and The Kantian Divide

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’. Check out his youtube channel Footnotes2Plato 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 Get full access to Wisdom Dojo at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe