Eternity and Creation – Neville, Corrington and de Miranda
Channel: Dr Luis de Miranda
Date: 2023-05-09

Robert Cummings Neville: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cummings_Neville

Neville's most significant scholarly contribution is arguably his metaphysical theory of being (or being-itself): a new theory that involves an original solution to the ancient problem of the one and the many. He developed this theory for his PhD dissertation at Yale University (graduated 1963), of which his first book, God the Creator, constitutes a substantial revision. Exploring the implications of that theory has enabled him to produce a philosophy of nature that rivals Alfred North Whitehead's in scope and power, as can be seen from his three-volume Axiology of Thinking. The first volume in that trilogy, Reconstruction of Thinking (1981), was hailed by Donald W. Sherburne—editor of the corrected edition of Whitehead's Process and Reality—as "a truly important book. It is the first genuinely neo-Whiteheadian offering on a large, systematic scale."[3] The second volume of the trilogy, Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (1989), was also well received. The prominent Confucian scholar and philosopher David L. Hall wrote of it as follows: "Because of its timeliness, the brilliance of its arguments, and the profundity of its conclusions, there is good reason to believe that this work will shortly become the focus of genuine and widespread discussion. With the publication of this latest installment of his Axiology of Thinking, Neville emerges as one of the strongest voices in American philosophy."[4] The complexity, systematic breadth, and analytic depth of Neville's thought is most evident in this second volume of his trilogy.

Robert S. Corrington:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Corrington

Robert S. Corrington's work contributes to philosophical and theological inquiry through the development of a perspective called 'ecstatic naturalism’. Ecstatic naturalism, also referred to as ‘deep pantheism’ or ‘religious naturalism,’ has emerged through Corrington's eleven books and over eighty articles on the subject. His influences are many and range across the disciplines of philosophy, theology, science, and psychology. Deep appreciation of the American philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Santayana, Justus Buchler and John Dewey grounds Corrington's insights in a pragmatist mode even as his work creatively extends this tradition philosophically through a psychologically sophisticated semiotics with the aid of Carl Jung, Otto Rank, Heinz Kohut, and Julia Kristeva and theologically through liberal Protestant thinkers Friedrich Schleiermacher and Paul Tillich toward a Hindu-inspired Emersonian post-Christian nature spirituality.


Luis de Miranda
https://luisdemiranda.com

Luis de Miranda, PhD, specialised in Philosophy of Mind, is since 2018 a researcher in Scandinavian universities. He is also a philosophical practitioner and counsellor. A Philosophy Doctor from the University of Edinburgh and a graduate of the HEC-Paris School of Economics, he is an international author of non-fiction and fiction. He is known for his theory and practice of philosophical health and crealectics. Some of his books, for example, an introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Robotics or the novella Who Killed the Poet?, have been translated into a dozen languages. His essay Being and Neonness was published by MIT Press, and the monograph Ensemblance by Edinburgh University Press. Forthcoming in 2023-2024 are two books on Philosophical Health to be published by Bloomsbury.

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