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At 63, a mathematician who had never taught a course in philosophy was invited to Harvard, and said yes. In this first episode of Whitehead’s Universe, André Rabe and Andrew Davis begin a slow walk through Andrew’s new book: who Alfred North Whitehead was, why his ideas are only now getting the attention they deserve, and why metaphysics, the “M” word, is not an escape from life but the attempt to make sense of all of our experience.
Based on Andrew M. Davis, Whitehead’s Universe: A Prismatic Introduction (Orbis Books, 2026), Introduction and Chapter 1. Hosts: André Rabe and Andrew Davis. More: alwaysloved.net
Is reality a river or a mountain? André Rabe and Andrew Davis trace the ancient intuition that all things flow, from Lao Tzu and Confucius to the Buddha, Heraclitus, Plato and Aristotle, and why Whitehead found the whole problem of metaphysics in two lines of a hymn: “Abide with me; fast falls the eventide.”
Based on Andrew M. Davis, Whitehead’s Universe: A Prismatic Introduction (Orbis Books, 2026), Chapter 2.Hosts: André Rabe and Andrew DavisMore: alwaysloved.net
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