# materialism — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover materialism. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/08/18/16507/) _2026-08-18 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ This seminar was hosted by Joe Lightfoot here in Chiang Mai. In the talk, I reprised some ideas I shared in a post a few years ago: Plato and Platonism: Dividing the Line and Completing the Circle Plato and Platonism: Dividing the Line and Completing the Circle I approach Plato not just to offer a scholarly treatment \[…\] ## [Between the Cross and the Bodhi Tree](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/08/10/between-the-cross-and-the-bodhi-tree/) _2026-08-10 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ The audio is available above, but it is poor quality. Thanks to Joe Lightfoot for hosting us! It was a real joy to meet Michel Bauwens in person for the first time at this event. Slightly edited transcript: All right—hello, everyone. I’m going to share something that’s very personal, but also transpersonal. I’ll be talking about the tension between \[ \] ## [Between Matter and the One: Exploring Plotinus’ Large Logos Model](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/07/01/between-matter-and-the-one-exploring-plotinus-large-logos-model/) _2026-07-01 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ Max Wade: My dissertation was on Plotinus’ ontology of artifacts, basically looking at Plotinus as a philosopher of technology. It was a fun project. It opens up a lot of interesting questions, and we’ll have a chance to talk about some of that, or just other things in general. Plotinus is my specialty. I’m primarily \[ \] ## [Materialism – Kädi Eelmaa 11.06.26](https://share.transistor.fm/s/982c8757) _2026-06-11 · IDA Radio · Materialism_ [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/982c8757/43937044.mp3) ## [Materialism – Stella Runnel 19.05.26](https://share.transistor.fm/s/5b861410) _2026-05-19 · IDA Radio · Materialism_ [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/5b861410/dc5dfb90.mp3) ## [Why Natural Science Would Be Better Off Without Physicalist Metaphysics](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/05/15/why-natural-science-would-be-better-off-without-physicalist-metaphysics/) _2026-05-16 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ I enjoyed my chat with James Faulk the other day. Here’s the video: I had a mustache for like 5 minutes a few years ago. I have had to accept that online the stache may be restacked forever. Anyway. Here’s a recap of what was basically a long argument about why natural science is not \[ \] ## [What is the grass?: Response to Arthur Haswell’s Pan-Pathism](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/05/12/what-is-the-grass-response-to-arthur-haswells-pan-pathism/) _2026-05-13 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ When I turn away from world-weariness, the child in me finds room to wonder, What is the grass? Is it the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven? Is it a scented gift designedly dropped by God? Or, is it the beautiful uncut hair of graves? Walt Whitman was a cosmic optimist, but he was not \[ \] ## [On Genesis: Toward a New Evolutionary Theology](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/05/06/on-genesis-toward-a-new-evolutionary-theology/) _2026-05-06 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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. I agree with Charles Taylor that Hegel’s treatment of historical evolution is “disastrous.” By my lights what we are in urgent need of \[ \] ## [Raymond Ruyer, or The Embryogenesis of Philosophy (dialogue with Pedro Brea and Jack Bagby)](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/05/04/raymond-ruyer-or-the-embryogenesis-of-philosophy-dialogue-with-pedro-brea-and-jack-bagby/) _2026-05-05 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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? Jack: Yeah. Matt: Close enough? Okay. I guess it was you, Jack, who first suggested him a while ago because of my interest in Whitehead. I finally got around to it. Maybe a month \[ \] ## [A Serpent in the Garden of Clarity: On Whitehead’s Not So Casual Use of “Casual”](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/05/01/a-serpent-in-the-garden-of-clarity-on-whiteheads-not-so-casual-use-of-casual/) _2026-05-01 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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 turns out that the position of a single “s” opens a huge can of metaphysical worms. In Science and the Modern World, there is a passage \[ \] ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3oVGcSVE0FXt) _2026-05-01 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Intelligent Design Meets Process Philosophy: My dialogue with Stephen Meyer](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/04/29/intelligent-design-meets-process-philosophy-my-dialogue-with-stephen-meyer/) _2026-04-30 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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. The agent shared a link to the new film, The Story of Everything, which is based on Meyer’s book Return of \[ \] ## [Mind-at-Large: In Dialogue with Iain McGilchrist, Ed Kelly, and Curt Jaimungal](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/04/23/mind-at-large-in-dialogue-with-iain-mcgilchrist-ed-kelly-and-curt-jaimungal/) _2026-04-23 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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. Videos of the event will be posted soon! Curt Jaimungal opened by cutting past preliminaries and asking the most basic metaphysical question possible: “What do you all think exists? \[ \] ## [Human Consciousness in a Cybernetic Age: Or Why Logos is not a Loom](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/04/22/human-consciousness-in-a-cybernetic-age-or-why-logos-is-not-a-loom/) _2026-04-22 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ The following is a transcript of my talk last week at our Mind-at-Large Project’s inaugural conference, “A New Dawn.” Video of all the talks, including this one, will be available in a few weeks on the Mind-at-Large website. Buenos días, everyone. I’m here at the Casa Oasis Guest House in Mérida, on the ancestral lands of the \[ \] ## [My Responses at Mind-at-Large Project’s “A New Dawn” Panel: Personhood, Participation, Imagination, and Mystical Theism](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/04/16/my-responses-at-mind-at-large-projects-a-new-dawn-panel-personhood-participation-imagination-and-mystical-theism/) _2026-04-17 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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). I repeat the questions when relevant so you will know what Curt asked. 1. Well, I am tempted to take this in a direction that might sound a little idealistic, but when you ask \[ \] ## [Peeling Back the Veils](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/04/03/pealing-back-the-veils/) _2026-04-03 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ LLM transcript of my chat with Seekers Mindtalks. Chapter 1: Exploring Reality and Consciousness \[00:00\] Raj: What if the way you experience reality isn t reality itself? What if this constant feeling of disconnect, the low-level anxiety, the sense that something s missing isn t modern life, but just a misunderstanding of who you are? In this episode of \[ \] ## [In Defense of Eternal Objects and God: On What Abides in Whitehead’s Process Philosophy](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/03/16/in-defense-of-eternal-objects-and-god-on-what-abides-in-whiteheads-process-philosophy/) _2026-03-16 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ Was there ever a time before metaphysics? Will there be a time after it? Pre and post, a priori and a posteriori, the here and now and the infinite Beyond: always and everywhere the opposites are meeting and making one another! We can strive to grow out of puerile metaphysics, but the claim to have transcended metaphysics entirely is not \[ \] ## [Transcending the Culture War by Recovering Participatory Theism (Dialogue with Nathan Hawkins)](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/03/06/transcending-the-culture-war-by-recovering-participatory-theism-dialogue-with-nathan-hawkins/) _2026-03-06 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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 both agree that dialogue must replace partisan shouting, and that philosophy has an important public role to play in helping to \[ \] ## [How does it feel to be on your own?: Society and the Modern World – A Whiteheadian Reading of Hartmut Rosa and Charles Taylor](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/02/27/how-does-it-feel-to-be-on-your-own-society-and-the-modern-world-a-whiteheadian-reading-of-hartmut-rosa-and-charles-taylor/) _2026-02-28 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ We finished our Hartmut Rosa reading group this morning (recordings are available here). I am grateful for Tripp Fuller’s invitation to study this text. It was my first time reading Rosa, and I found his sociological intervention convergent with many of my own ways of thinking. As I’ll relate below, Tripp and I had no trouble finding \[ \] ## [Sacred Swimmer](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/02/26/sacred-swimmer/) _2026-02-26 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ I came to this cityat the edge of the continentas so many dreamers before mefollowing the westward winds of timelike the gold-glinting eyesof greedy men who mistook the ocean’s endless horizonfor a promise made only to them.I was destined by a different orenot yet hardened but still molten to the core,something older than the veinstorn open \[ \] ## [The Logical Animal – Earth to Humanity: Put Down Your Maps](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/02/21/the-logical-animal-earth-to-humanity-put-down-your-maps/) _2026-02-21 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ 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. This is nearly my last night in Humboldt County. I came out to the hot tub one last time to take in the night sky. It happened to be clear \[ \] ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GEge5rGVIC5z) _2026-02-21 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Thinking Things with Graham Harman: Whitehead’s Way Beyond Philosophies of Human Access](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/02/07/thinking-things-with-graham-harman-whiteheads-way-beyond-philosophies-of-human-access/) _2026-02-07 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ Rahul Samaranayake has had me on his podcast a few times over the years, including an especially generative conversation with Peter Rollins last year. This time he invited me and Graham Harman into dialogue. Below is the transcript. RAHULIt’s funny. I was reading some of your articles, Graham. You mention Whitehead quite a lot. So obviously my head went \[ \] ## [Poetics of Life and Death: Dialoguing with Andreas Weber](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/01/30/poetics-of-life-and-death-dialoguing-with-andreas-weber/) _2026-01-30 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ Matt: Hi, Andreas. Good morning. Andreas: Good morning. Sorry to keep you waiting. Matt: That’s quite all right. Andreas: I was late anyway, and then Zoom decided it needed to do a new install, like in the old Windows times. Matt: Of course. Always another update. Andreas: Exactly. It’s not the first time it’s happened, \[ \] ## [Ontologizing Enactivism: Worldmaking with Ezequiel Di Paolo (dialogue with Tim Jackson)](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/01/29/ontologizing-enactivism-worldmaking-with-ezequiel-di-paolo-dialogue-with-tim-jackson/) _2026-01-30 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ Timothy Jackson and I were back in the saddle, this time to discuss Ezequiel Di Paolo’s article seeking an enactive ontology: Di Paolo, E. A. (2023). F/acts: Ways of enactive worldmaking. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 30 (11–12): 159-89. doi: 10.53765/20512201.30.11.159. Ezequiel will be joining us to present in the biophilosophy track at this summer’s International Whitehead Conference in \[ \] ## [A Hegelian Tour of Philosophy from Parmenides to the French Revolution](https://footnotes2plato.com/2026/01/24/a-hegelian-tour-of-philosophy-from-parmenides-to-the-french-revolution/) _2026-01-24 · Matthew David Segall · Footnotes2Plato_ A slightly revised transcript of my introductory lecture from a course on Hegel s Absolute Idealism. I just want to begin by noting that Hegel’s time was a time of revolution in Europe. The French Revolution, in many ways, shaped the political categories that all the modern liberal democracies have been assuming for the last couple \[ \] ## [Materialism – Karl Joonas Alamaa, Lisette Sivard 06.10.25](https://share.transistor.fm/s/3cfab525) _2025-10-06 · IDA Radio · Materialism_ [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/3cfab525/1da420e1.mp3) ## [Materialism – Ron Verlin 25.09.25](https://share.transistor.fm/s/bf346a68) _2025-09-25 · IDA Radio · Materialism_ Anne Vetikul on tänases selle sügise esimeses Materialismis külas Ron Verlin. Teemadeks on mood kui kunst, kuidas jõudis Ron moekunsti juurde, mida Ron temust telliks ning samuti Ron Verlin. kes olin elus, selleks jään ka surmas / that which I was in life, I am in death näituse avamine. [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/bf346a68/4fcbfe77.mp3) ## [Materialism – Karl Christoph Rebane 07.04.25](https://share.transistor.fm/s/09cf6868) _2025-04-07 · IDA Radio · Materialism_ Tänases Materialismis on külas moelooja & luuletaja Karl Christoph Rebane. Juttu tuleb maskidest, moemängudest & elust metsas. [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/09cf6868/6c821a1c.mp3) ## [Materialism – Kamila Kučíková 20.03.25](https://share.transistor.fm/s/9024c881) _2025-03-20 · IDA Radio · Materialism_ [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/9024c881/efe0c3ed.mp3) ## [Materialsim – LAIVI 16.01.25](https://share.transistor.fm/s/c4bce632) _2025-01-16 · IDA Radio · Materialism_ Saatejuht Anne Vetik. Külas LAIVI . [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/c4bce632/cb21723b.mp3) ## [Reading Althusser: The Structural Science of History](https://redsails.org/the-structural-science-of-history/) _2024-12-19 · Steven Smith · Red Sails_ Althusser’s main claim to our attention is based on his attempt to establish a rapproachement between Marxism and structuralism. Since structuralism can be regarded as nothing more than a word for scientific method, we can best begin to grasp its meaning by contrasting it to the… ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AiuamW2Qo7i9) _2024-12-18 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [“True” Philosophy](https://redsails.org/vera-filosofia/) _2024-11-26 · Antonio Gramsci · Red Sails_ All philosophy that has existed so far was born of and is an expression of the intimate contradictions of society. However, no one philosophical system by itself can be taken to be the conscious expression of these contradictions — this expression can only be given by the… ## [Did Marx Believe in Teleology?](https://redsails.org/did-marx-believe-in-teleology/) _2024-10-16 · Harrison Fluss · Red Sails_ The most famous statement Marx made on teleology was ostensibly against it. In addressing Lassalle on the importance of Darwin, he noted ## [The Modern Monetary Trick](https://redsails.org/the-modern-monetary-trick/) _2024-10-08 · Michael Roberts · Red Sails_ Modern monetary theory (MMT) has become the flavour of the time in many leftist circles in recent years. The left-wing Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is apparently a supporter; Bernie Sanders’ former economic adviser Stephanie Kelton is a leading exponent and populariser of… ## [How Should You Be?](https://redsails.org/how-should-you-be/) _2024-10-02 · Marcus Aurelius · Red Sails_ How should you be? You should be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds. It stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, “How unlucky that this should happen to me.” But not at all. Perhaps say instead… ## [Artisanal Intelligence: What’s the Deal with “AI” Art?](https://redsails.org/artisanal-intelligence/) _2024-09-06 · Pol Clarissou · Red Sails_ We already know, and it is a waste of air to keep pointing out, that everything coming out of the mouths of the venture capital freaks of the Silicon Valley and the LinkedIn influencers is a nightmarish sludge of inane nonsense. It’s a mix of blind tech enthusiasm (“This tech… ## [On Work in Socialist Society](https://redsails.org/sobre-el-trabajo-en-la-sociedad-socialista/) _2024-09-05 · Che Guevara · Red Sails_ I believe that today, in this occasion, celebrating an act of such revolutionary significance as this one, in which the Ministry of Industries exhibits sincere pride at having always been at the forefront of deepening of revolutionary consciousness through collective work of a… ## [Hegel and the Nazis](https://redsails.org/hegel-and-the-nazis/) _2024-08-24 · György Lukács · Red Sails_ The relationship of Hitler’s fascists to Hegel’s philosophy is basically very simple: they resolutely reject it. Alfred Rosenberg, the main Nazi theorist, sees in the connection between Hegel and Marx an essential reason to define the Hegelian philosophy as hostile to the…