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Is Time Real?

Jeff Carreira January 10, 2013 Philosophy 4 Comments

The experience of the passage of time is one of the most foundational experiences of being human. We remember the past, we experience the immediacy of the present, and we imagine the possibilities of the …

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Art and the Evolution of Consciousness

Jeff Carreira November 12, 2012 Philosophy 6 Comments

Did you know that American Avant-Garde painters, writers and musicians in the 1950’s were inspired by evolutionary philosophy? I just completed a weekend program with a group that I co-teach called The Evolutionary Collective and …

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The Transformation of the Present Moment

Jeff Carreira May 24, 2012 Philosophy 9 Comments

Generally we assume that the world just exists – sitting there dead and meaningless – the object of our perceptions. The world doesn’t just exist – it shows up. It presents itself to us through …

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Alfred North Whitehead: And the Three Components of Knowledge

Jeff Carreira July 28, 2011 Philosophy 5 Comments

This week I wanted to share a quote from the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead is the originator of what is commonly known as Process Theology. And many of his ideas follow closely in …

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The Emergence of the Universe

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2009 Philosophy 13 Comments

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. …

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