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The Evolution of Dissatisfaction

Jeff Carreira December 22, 2011 Philosophy 8 Comments

What moves us? Why do we keep going, always striving to better ourselves, our circumstances and the conditions of others? It isn’t completely rational. We all die in the end anyway so why does it …

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Charles Sanders PeirceWilliam James

Everything Exists in Relationship

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2011 Philosophy 13 Comments

Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In fact, things do not exist at all. Relationships exist. There are no individual things. The existence of anything is always contingent upon …

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Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

We don’t create time – we freeze it in its tracks.

Jeff Carreira December 1, 2011 Philosophy 7 Comments

We have learned to see time as if it appears in chunks – minutes, hours, days, and years. But if time comes in chunks how do we experience past memories in the present? How does …

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Charles Sanders PeirceWilliam James

Experience and Understanding

Jeff Carreira November 17, 2011 Philosophy 3 Comments

There are two kinds of knowing – experience and understanding – and the confusion between them is the cause of all sorts of trouble for any thinking person. Experience is the knowing of things. It …

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Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonWilliam James

Are Relationships Real Things?

Jeff Carreira November 10, 2011 Philosophy 6 Comments

Our sense of reality is dominated by things. Things feel real to us. We live in a universe that we experience as empty space filled with things. And some things have relationships between them. But …

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William James

Into The Human Flow

Jeff Carreira September 29, 2011 Philosophy 3 Comments

I am currently completely captivated by the image of a Human Flow. The American Pragmatist philosophers developed a view of humanity as a constant flow of activity and society was a flow of flows. There …

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George Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

Mead, Mind and World

Jeff Carreira September 16, 2011 Philosophy 5 Comments

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

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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Alfred North WhiteheadCharles Sanders PeirceWilliam James

The Subjective World of William James

Jeff Carreira July 15, 2011 Philosophy 4 Comments

My last post inspired me to want to do a series of posts in which I share some of my favorite  philosophy passages, and this week a passage from William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience compels me. …

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William James

A Field of Pure Knowing

Jeff Carreira June 2, 2011 Philosophy 6 Comments

What is the human soul? Is it some phantom-like part of us or is it a living dimension of the universe from which all life flows? The later is what Samuel Taylor Coleridge taught and …

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Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam James

Breaking the Bonds of Language

Jeff Carreira May 26, 2011 Philosophy 12 Comments

Have you ever tried to have an original thought – or worse – had a truly original thought that you tried to put into language? That is when you realize that you are trapped in …

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Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam James

Vicious Intellectualism and the Reality of the Unknown

Jeff Carreira April 21, 2011 Philosophy 23 Comments

There are things that we know. And there are things that we know that we don’t know. And there are things that we don’t know that we don’t know. These last are the “unknown unknowns” …

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Charles Sanders PeirceWilfred SellersWilliam James

The Truth is Out There: Pragmatism and The X-files

Jeff Carreira April 15, 2011 Philosophy 7 Comments

It occurred to me the other day that the American Philosophy of Pragmatism shares some remarkable similarities with the television series The X-files. Let’s start with the TV show’s moto – “the truth is out …

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Charles Sanders PeirceWilliam James

The Reality of the Immediately Present – William James and Rudolf Steiner

Jeff Carreira February 10, 2011 Philosophy 21 Comments

Some things in reality force themselves upon us immediately. They appear spontaneously without provocation and they impress themselves upon our senses in ways that we cannot withstand. These things surely must be real. Direct sense …

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Charles Sanders PeirceRudolf SteinerWilliam James

The Evolving Truth of Pragmatism

Jeff Carreira January 27, 2011 Philosophy 13 Comments

In response to my last two posts a number of good points have been raised that I would like to start to address. Catherine has championed the idealism of Plato and Steiner against the Pragmatic …

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Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyWilliam James

Emerson & James in Defense of Individual Greatness

Jeff Carreira October 29, 2010 Philosophy 7 Comments

In 1850 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a book that he called Representative Men. In this book he explains that great individuals represent possibilities of higher ways of being. These extraordinary individuals have the power to …

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Ralph Waldo EmersonWilliam James

A Philosophy of Pure Experience

Jeff Carreira September 9, 2010 Philosophy 15 Comments

Here is my second post exploring some of the ideas that are informing me as I prepare for my presentaion at the Science and Nonduality Conference. William James over the course of his life developed …

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William James

Life without the Background

Jeff Carreira September 2, 2010 Philosophy 30 Comments

On Friday October 22nd I will be presenting at the Science and Nonduality Conference in San Rafael, California. The topic of my presentation will be Evolutionary Non-duality, and I will introduce people to the same …

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William James and social trust

Jeff Carreira August 26, 2010 Philosophy 3 Comments

James’ decidedly Existentialist leanings may have resulted from his own existential crisis. Soon after completing his medical degree from Harvard, while in a psychiatric ward, James noticed a severely mentally ill patient and was suddenly …

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William James

William James, American Existentialist

Jeff Carreira August 20, 2010 Philosophy 9 Comments

William Barrett introduced the philosophy of Existentialism to American academia with the publication of his book Irrational Man. In the book he is clear to state that Existentialism is strictly Continental European philosophical movement. Although …

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