Matt Segall - Alfred North Whitehead and Owen Barfield on the Romantic Imagination as a Window into the Intrinsic Value of Nature - Process Explorations

Alfred North Whitehead and Owen Barfield on the Romantic Imagination as a Window into the Intrinsic Value of Nature | Matt Segall

December 9 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

Program:
Process Explorations
Series Theme:
Forging Paths Toward Justice, Peace, and Earth-Care
Session Topic:
Alfred North Whitehead and Owen Barfield on the Romantic Imagination as a Window into the Intrinsic Value of Nature
Presenter(s):
Matt Segall, Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies

 

Drawing on insights from Whitehead’s chapter in Science and the Modern World (1925) “The Romantic Reaction” as well as Owen Barfield’s chapter in The Rediscovery of Meaning (1977) “Where is Fancy Bred?,” Matt will show how imagination can act as the bridge that renews our appreciation for the inherent value and meaning of the living world.

 

About the Presenter(s)

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Matthew David Segall, PhD is a transdisciplinary philosopher and Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His work bridges process-relational metaphysics with contemporary science and spirituality, drawing inspiration from thinkers such as Whitehead, Schelling, Goethe, and Rudolf Steiner. Segall’s scholarship challenges dualistic and mechanistic paradigms and invites a renewed integration between the natural sciences and humanities. Segall is the author of Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (2023), a philosophical exploration that seeks to bridge the epistemological divide introduced by Immanuel Kant by cultivating a participatory mode of knowing rooted in aesthetic experience. In Physics of the World-Soul: Alfred North Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology (2021), he situates Whitehead’s philosophy of organism within the context of contemporary scientific cosmology, engaging with relativity, quantum, evolutionary, and complexity theories to advocate for an ensouled interpretation of the universe.

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