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815Aleksandr Bogdanov's History, Sociology and Philosophy of ScienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 31 (2): 231-248. 2000.With the failure of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Bogdanov has come under increasing scrutiny as the anti-authoritarian, left-wing opponent of Lenin among the Bolsheviks and the main inspiration behind the Proletk'ult movement, the movement which attempted to create a new, proletarian culture (Sochor, 1988). Bogdanov's efforts to create a new, universal science of organization, a precursor to systems theory and cybernetics, has also attracted considerable attention (Gorelik, 1980; Bello, 1985; Big…Read more
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1437Editorial. Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological PhilosophyProgress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 119 (3): 208-218. 2015.The is the Editorial of the 2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological Philosophy
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609Philosophy, Civilization, and the Global Ecological Crisis: The Challenge of Process Metaphysics to Scientific MaterialismPhilosophy Today 44 (3): 283-294. 2000.Developing MacIntyre’s metaphilosophy, Whitehead’s contention that philosophy ‘is the most effective of all the intellectual pursuits’ is elucidated and defended. It is argued that the narratives through which philosophical ideas are evaluated can refigure the stories constituting societies. In this way philosophical ideas become practically effective and come to be embodied in institutions. This is illustrated by the challenge by process philosophy to scientific materialism in the face of an im…Read more
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679Mathematics, explanation and reductionism: exposing the roots of the Egyptianism of European civilizationCosmos and History 1 (1): 54-89. 2005.We have reached the peculiar situation where the advance of mainstream science has required us to dismiss as unreal our own existence as free, creative agents, the very condition of there being science at all. Efforts to free science from this dead-end and to give a place to creative becoming in the world have been hampered by unexamined assumptions about what science should be, assumptions which presuppose that if creative becoming is explained, it will be explained away as an illusion. In this…Read more
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1713Beyond European civilization: Marxism, process philosophy, and the environmentEco-logical Press. 1993.This book offers an historical study and critique of Marxism as it was developed in the Soviet Union, then outlines and defends a version of process philosophy on the basis of which a form of eco-Marxism is defended.
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833The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Western World (review)Cosmos and History 8 (1): 412-449. 2012.Review of Iain McGilchrist, 'The Master and His Emissary'
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3863Nihilism Incorporated: European Civilization and Environmental DestructionEco-Logical Press. 1993.Environmental degradation is the most important complex of problems ever confronted by humanity. Humans are interfering with the world's ecosystems so severely that they are beginning to undermine the conditions for their own continued existence. They are polluting the air, the oceans and the land. They are rapidly exhausting the reserves of minerals and destroying the resources of the world on which civilization depends, while destroying other life forms on a massive scale. At the same time hum…Read more
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406Global Climate Destabilization and the Crisis of CivilizationChromatikon 6 11-24. 2010.James Hansen, the world’s leading climate scientist, argues that global climate destabilization could totally destroy the conditions for life on Earth, and further, that politicians are not taking effective action. Instead, they are using their power to cripple science. This situation is explained in this paper as the outcome of the successful alliance between a global class of predators and people who must be recognized as idiots taking over the institutions of government, research and educatio…Read more
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2375Stepping Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology. Towards an Integrable Model of Life: Accelerating Discovery in the Biological Foundations of ScienceIn Plamen L. Simeonov, Leslie S. Smith & Andrée C. Ehresmann (eds.), Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality, Springer. pp. 328-427. 2012.The INBIOSA project brings together a group of experts across many disciplines who believe that science requires a revolutionary transformative step in order to address many of the vexing challenges presented by the world. It is INBIOSA’s purpose to enable the focused collaboration of an interdisciplinary community of original thinkers. This paper sets out the case for support for this effort. The focus of the transformative research program proposal is biology-centric. We admit that biology to …Read more
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611Speculative metaphysics and the future of philosophy: The contemporary relevance of Whitehead's defence of speculative metaphysicsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (2). 1999.While some philosophers and increasing numbers of scientists are striving to revive speculative metaphysics as a condition for further advancing science, solving the central problems of contemporary philosophy and confronting the major problems facing society, even philosophers decrying the increasingly marginal status of philosophy continue to ignore or denigrate their efforts. It is argued that this lack of appreciation and the associated misrepresentations of speculative metaphysics stems fro…Read more
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305Michel Weber, Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 27 (6): 444-447. 2007.Michel Weber Whitehead’s Pancreativism: The Basics. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag 2007. Pp. 255. US$106.00 (cloth ISBN-13: 978-3-938793-15-2). In his introduction to After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre called upon his readers to imagine a culture in which, to begin with, the natural sciences had been destroyed by an anti-science movement, and then, reacting against this movement, people had attempted to reconstruct science from surviving fragments. In this imaginary world adults argue over the respective…Read more
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