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    The social and ecological crises of the twenty-first century represent a failure of the techno-industrial way of living and knowing. It has become apparent that we need both a new mythos and a new science. In this essay, I draw attention to the important epistemological and cosmological implications of enactivism, a still emerging paradigm within the life sciences. Guided by the insights of the enactive paradigm, I offer a new story of human origins and destiny in an attempt to contribute to a m…Read more
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    Whitehead and Media Ecology
    Process Studies 48 (2): 239-253. 2019.
    This article brings media ecology into conversation with Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism in an effort to lure the former beyond its normally anthropocentric orientation. The article is divided into two parts. Part 1 spells out the way Whitehead's approach can aid media ecology in developing a less anthropocentric theory of communication. Part 2 engages more specifically with Mark B. N. Hansen's Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media. Hansen's work is an example…Read more
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    The Varieties of Physicalist Ontology
    Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 7 (1): 105. 2020.
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    Dreyfus, Hubert and Charles Taylor. Retrieving Realism (review)
    World Futures 73 (3): 179-185. 2017.
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    Standing Firm in the Flux: On Whitehead's Eternal Objects
    Process Studies 52 (2): 159-178. 2023.
    Alfred North Whitehead's first book as a professor of philosophy at Harvard University, Science and the Modern World, is not only a historical treatment of the rise and fall of scientific materialism. It also marks his turn to metaphysics in search of an alternative cosmological scheme that would replace matter in motion with organic process as that which is generic in Nature. Among the metaphysical innovations introduced in this book are the somewhat enigmatic “eternal objects.” The publication…Read more
  • Michael S. Hogue. American Immanence: Democracy for An Uncertain World (review)
    Process Studies 50 (2): 283-288. 2021.