Matthew David Segall
Transdisciplinary researcher, process philosopher, and teacher.
An experiment in public thinking tracing my philosophical development across two decades, through metaphysics and myth, psychology and poetry, science, religion, and politics.
Whitehead reconciling the opposites.
The philosopher, his lineage, and the platform grown since 2006.
Enter →Physics of the World-Soul, Crossing the Threshold, and chapters.
Browse →Articles across metaphysics, science, psychology, and religion.
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Philosophy begins in the fact that we die.
We are beings who die, we know it, and that knowledge envelops our lives in mystery, naturally widening our gaze from the grave to the stars. Where does the universe come from, and where is it going? These are speculative questions that human reason cannot help but ask, even if we cannot expect science to answer them.
Drawing especially on Whitehead and Schelling—in dialogue with the history of philosophy, esotericism, and contemporary science—my work labors to heal what Whitehead called the bifurcation of nature: the modern habit of severing a measurable world of dead matter "out there" from a private theater of mind "in here." Against that mechanistic myth I articulate a vision of animate nature, where the world is not made of blindly colliding objects but actively communicating subject-superjects.
Process-relational Naturphilosophie in the lineage of Schelling and Whitehead.
Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead
Conceives the etheric imagination—the creative power mediating between thinking and being—tracing a hidden lineage from Schelling's Naturphilosophie to Whitehead's philosophy of organism.
Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology
Reads the universe as an ensouled, evolving organism rather than a machine, bringing Whitehead into dialogue with relativity and quantum physics, evolutionary biology, and complex systems science.
A selection of articles, chapters, and papers.
Traces the concept of prehension through its philosophical origins, its role in overcoming the bifurcation of nature, and its implications for integrating causality and creativity.
What are these technologies for? Whose interests do they serve? And how are they changing our sense of conscious human agency? A philosophical reckoning with AI.
A bid to bring natural science to its senses — turning to Schelling and Whitehead for an alternative to the model-centric idealism afflicting contemporary physical cosmology.
Recorded lectures on Whitehead, Schelling, and the philosophy of organism.
On consciousness, cosmology, and the love of wisdom.
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