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11Review of Guy R. McPherson, 'Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey' (review)Cosmos and History 10 (2): 329-336. 2014.No abstract
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712Consciousness and rationality from a process perspectiveIn Michel Weber & Anderson Weekes (eds.), Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind, State University of New York Press. 2010.This paper intends to give a philosophical analysis of the concepts of consciousness and rationality, and particularly to display the correlation existing between what is usually called the “normal state of consciousness” and what should be called the “normal state of rationality”. Eventually, it draws consequences for the correlation existing between “altered/aberrant states of consciousness” and “altered/aberrant rationality”. Although it argues from a broad phenomenological perspective, its …Read more
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37On the Purpose of a University Education (review)Educational Philosophy and Theory 48 (2): 207-210. 2016.
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5I. IntroductionIn Michel Weber and Will Desmond (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 15-40. 2008.
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53Contact Made VisionIn Handbook, Ontos Verlag. pp. 227-260. 2008.Michel Weber and William Desmond, Jr. (eds), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought X1 & X2, 2008, I,
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186IntroductionIn Michel Weber & Anderson Weekes (eds.), Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-34. 2010.The Introduction highlights the three main themes of the book: (1) the ontological and epistemological status of everyday human consciousness, (2) the distribution of consciousness in the natural world, and (3) panpsychism. The individual contributions to the book are summarized and related literature is briefly discussed.
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12La vie de la nature selon le dernier WhiteheadLes Etudes Philosophiques 78 (3): 395. 2006.Cette étude introduit au problème de la vie dans l’œuvre d’Alfred North Whitehead à l’aide d’un examen de ses conférences de Chicago . D’une part, il s’agira de comprendre l’inertie, voire l’inanition, dans laquelle la nature fut plongée par la science renaissante. D’autre part, on verra comment, et pourquoi, Whitehead propose de la ranimer à la suite de la physique des champs. Cinq traits seront respectivement mis en évidence et une courte conclusion ouvrira le débat science/sens commun.This pa…Read more
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26Chromatikon VIII: Annuaire de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process (edited book)Éditions Chromatika. 2012.
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275Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2010.This collection opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies. Approaching consciousness from diverse disciplinary perspectives—philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, neuropathology, psychotherapy, biology, animal ethology, and physics—the contributors offer empirical and philosophical support for a model of consciousness inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947). Whitehead’s model is developed in ways he could not have anticipat…Read more
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