Alfred North Whitehead's Process Philosophy: A Deeper Dive with Andrew M. Davis, Nick Hedlund and Brendan Graham Dempsey

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In this episode of the Integration podcast, Andrew M. Davis joins Nick Hedlund and Brendan Graham Dempsey for a deeper dive into process philosophy. Does interiority emerge somewhere along the evolutionary way, as emergentists hold, or does it go all the way down, as panpsychists do? And if it goes all the way down, what could feeling possibly mean at the level of an atom? Where does Whitehead land between idealism and realism, and would he count as a metamodern neorealist? What is matter, once solidity dissolves into events? And when God arrives as the chief exemplification of the metaphysics rather than an exception to it, does that survive Occam's razor?

Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Introduction

00:02:32 – Does Experience Go All the Way Down?

00:03:52 – Prehension: Feeling Without Consciousness

00:08:58 – Is a Rock Feeling Anything?

00:25:09 – Idealist, Dual Aspect Monist, or Realist?

00:30:26 – What Is Matter?

00:32:37 – Whitehead as a Metamodern Neorealist?

00:43:35 – The Bifurcation of Nature

00:49:13 – Whitehead's God: Primordial and Consequent

00:59:37 – Does God Survive Occam's Razor?

01:07:29 – What Process Thought Brings to the Table