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?

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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