The reason I find it interesting to think about different dimensions is because the distinction between one dimension and the next is uniquely…well…distinct. We are all very familiar with distinctions between one thing and the next, like my car and my friend’s car. We are also familiar with distinctions between different kinds of things like [...]
All posts for the month December, 2009
Charles Sanders Peirce and Integral Evolution
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 29, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/12/29/charles-sanders-peirce-and-integral-evolution/
Multi-dimensional Fun
Let’s continue our thought about dimensionality in the upbeat spirit of the holidays by visiting one of the great books about multiple dimensions, Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novella “Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions.” If you haven’t read it, it is well worth a small investment of time. In the book Abbott describes three different lands: lineland, flatland, [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 26, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/12/26/multi-dimensional-fun/
Multiple Dimensional Reality
I want to take up this matter of non-duality and the split of mind and matter. Brian has accused me of being a dualist – a Cartesian (gasp) – and I must defend myself for it has become very unsightly for any would-be intellectual to be a Cartesian. The French philosopher Rene Descartes, the father [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 22, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/12/22/multiple-dimensional-reality/
What World Are We Talking About?
I have taken in a great deal of information over the past month or so and seemed time to step back and take yet another stab at my own current best-guess assimilation of this investigation. After contemplating Charles Sanders Peirce, a little Martin Heidegger and some John Dewey to boot, it seems that it is [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 19, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/12/19/what-world-are-we-talking-about/
The Emergence of the Universe
In my last two posts I introduced Peirce’s phenomenology of thirdness. The American Pragmatists were exploring a perspective of unified emergence that was taking the implications of Darwin’s evolutionary theory into the realm of metaphysics. This work on emergence was continued in America by Alfred North Whitehead and Process Theologians to the present day. Carl [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 15, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/12/15/the-emergence-of-the-universe/
The Thirdness of Peirce, the Worlds of Heidegger and Conscious Evolution
I want to go in a little deeper into Peirce’s conception of the three modes of being, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness. By Firstness Peirce is referring to pure being. Firstness is the unseen, imperceptible essence of things. It is the thing in itself prior to anything happening or any encounter with a second. As such, [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 12, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/12/12/the-thirdness-of-peirce-the-worlds-of-heidegger-and-conscious-evolution/
Charles Sanders Peirce’s Integrally Evolving Universe
To continue this discussion and approach the evolutionary metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce, I first want to return to Kant. As I wrote about earlier, Kant’s big insight was that the world as we perceive it is interpreted through certain apriori – before thought – categories of mind. His categories include such obviously fundamental elements [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on December 8, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/12/08/charles-sanders-peirce%e2%80%99s-integrally-evolving-universe/
