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Mead, Mind and World

Jeff Carreira September 16, 2011Philosophy

George Herbert Mead is the fourth major figure in Classical American Pragmatism. Mead studied philosophy at Harvard while William James chaired the department. He taught with John Dewey at the University of Michigan before they …

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George Herbert MeadKen WilberWilliam James

The Birth of Integral Theory

Jeff Carreira January 29, 2010Philosophy

In this blog I have attempted to create a snapshot of the American philosophy of Pragmatism. In doing this I have emphasized how ideas are developed as part of, and in response to, larger cultural …

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Integral TheoryKen Wilber

Evolutionary Enlightenment and American Philosophy

Jeff Carreira October 26, 2009Philosophy

Before continuing with our fascinating discussion I wanted, in the interest of transparency, to tell a little more about my interest in American Philosophy. The last decades of the 20th century saw a resurgence of …

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Barbara Marx HubbardKen WilberPragmatismRalph Waldo EmersonTranscendentalismWilliam James

Evolutionary Spirituality and American Philosophy

Jeff Carreira August 10, 2009Philosophy

It is perhaps not surprising that all of the popular contemporary forms of evolutionary spirituality are engaged with the same ethical question that Peirce, James and Dewey attempted to answer. Does the reality of evolution …

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Barbara Marx HubbardKen WilberPragmatism

Integral Theory, Evolutionary Enlightenment and American Philosophy

Jeff Carreira April 27, 2009Philosophy

I am helping to put together an internet based seminar featuring Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber and I thought that I would write a blog post explaining how my interest in the work of these …

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Integral TheoryKen Wilber

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