Research Interests

metaphysics, philosophy of nature, philosophy of mind, religious studies, transdisciplinarity

Biography

Matthew David Segall, Ph.D., is a transdisciplinary philosopher and Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His work bridges process-relational metaphysics with contemporary science and spirituality, drawing inspiration from thinkers such as Whitehead, Schelling, Goethe, and Rudolf Steiner. Segall’s scholarship challenges dualistic and mechanistic paradigms and invites a renewed integration between the natural sciences and humanities.

Education

Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016

Courses

Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology

Mind and Nature in German Idealism

Process and Difference in the Pluriverse

Publications

Segall, M. D. (2023). Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead.

Segall, M. D. (2021). Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology.