Rupert Sheldrake – presented by Robert Mann
A dozen or more of us enjoyed Robert Mann’s spirited and ‘unashamedly polemical’ presentation of not only the ideas of Rupert Sheldrake, but also Mann’s reasons why Sheldrake is important.
Please use the comment feature below to share comments, questions and/or feedback from the lecture. Or, if you weren’t able to attend, feel free to ask or comment on this topic.
Click here (right-click & ’save-as’) for a John Morton paper on Sheldrake (PDF)
Click here (updated version!!) for a Robert Mann Sheldrake-related paper ‘Causes in Biology’ (PDF)
Also, here are some Rupert Sheldrake resources from ’round the web…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
‘The Extended Mind’ (Rupert Sheldrake – 2005 Paranormal Experimental Evidence – video)
I found the talk very interesting/entertaining, though I’m looking forward to doing more reading about how Sheldrake actually understands these morphogenic fields. As Mann thought we had received some info ahead of time (which we’ll try to get up on here!), he didn’t bother spelling out some key details…
By: Dale on August 26, 2008
at 11:03 am
[...] (probably not smart enough to know either way!), but I find it fascinating, and enjoyed a recent lecture on Sheldrake by Robert [...]
By: fruitful faith.net » making sense of sheldrake on October 15, 2008
at 7:21 pm
I’m grateful to our colleagues of the College of the Good Shepherd for pointing out that the allocation of names by Morton (and others) among Aristotle’s Categories of Cause is not quite right.
It turns out that Aristotle didn’t call ‘efficient’ the processes in materials (and, we would add, energy) which we now call chemical reactions. These conversions which are the only category of cause acknowledged by Dawkins, Wolpert etc were not accorded a separate name by Ari.
I will argue that Mort’s categories of cause are a substantial advance, comprehending chemistry as Aristotle could not. But the immediate point is that Mort’s Claret Cameo uses the term ‘efficient’ in a way different from Ari’s.
By: Robert Mann on October 25, 2008
at 1:13 am