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Adam Robert

Space and time are not containers but are instead emergent features spun off from the adventures of entities themselves.

Whitehead’s cosmology acknowledges that the conditions of possibility of human experience have their own conditions of existence set by the ecological conditions of reality. In Whitehead’s approach, the ground, to use a traditional philosophical term, is not a primordial layer that sits as a backdrop upon which events occur; rather, for Whitehead the ground is…

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Maintaining the reality of the red glow of the sunset

For Whitehead there’s something important at stake in the framing of human experience in terms of the bifurcation of nature that Stengers wants us to pay attention to; namely, the bifurcation of nature requires a certain kind of sacrifice on  behalf of human experience that we may not wish to accept. Stengers describes this sacrifice,…

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