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Dr. Godehard Brüntrup is a German philosopher, Jesuit, and professor of philosophy at the Munich University of Philosophy with a focus on metaphysics , philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

I was beyond thrilled to talk with Dr. Brüntrup. He is not only a leading philosopher in Germany, but our shared interest in philosophy of mind and Alfred North Whitehead

• how the characters of Socrates and Jesus inspired his vocation
• ontic shock and the question of meaning
• moving beyond the computer metaphor for the mind & the functionalist approach
• dualism and the variety of monisms (materialism / idealism)
• why Christianity does not require dualism
• the success and challenge of science
• fallacy of misplaced concreteness in science
• the trouble of dual-aspect monism
• Whitehead's theory of mind and concept of experience
• emergent panpsychism
• process philosophy of religion
• the problem with a Post-Kantian rejection of metaphysics
• the spirituality of panpsychism

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