I established the Being and Place project in 2006 with a view to developing an integral philosophy for living. I combine extensive research and intensive reading across the various subject disciplines. The approach is founded on a deep interdisciplinarity, ranging widely whilst weaving specialist knowledge through its interconnection. I have specialist knowledge in the fields of philosophy, history, economics, ethics, ecology, the urban environment, literature, and theology. Seeing the world as an interconnected whole, I weave materials from all of these disciplines together to form one coherent whole. The result is an integral approach to a multidimensional reality.
Being and Place was designed with the express purpose of building bridges between the scientific, social, and cultural disciplines, integrating materials holistically without losing specialist depth. Without specific details, the whole is vacuous; without relation to the whole, the details are inert and incomplete. Combining breadth and depth, the approach seeks to counteract the increasing fragmentation of knowledge in the contemporary world by way of integration within a coherent and – one hopes – cogent worldview. Thinking beyond the boundaries, the hope of the integral vision presented by Being and Place is to inspire an action that is attuned to the links and connections comprising the one world within which we all dwell. The end goal is a truly human society of human beings rooted and settled in a place they can call their own, a being and place that counteracts the inhumanism and displacement that is now upon us.
The scope of the research is extensive but the idea is clear and concerns the connection between being and place, the moral meaning that human beings invest in the world around them as the rational evolution of the human ontology. The central theme is that of cities, citizenship, and civilisation as the mutual unfolding of nature within and nature without, affirming the unity of human beings in society and of society and nature. The research examines philosophical conceptions of freedom, security, reason and power from classical origins to the present day in order to define the public realm as the appropriate habitat for human self-realisation. The research incorporates evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology and ecology within a socio-philosophical perspective in order to make the progress of rationalisation responsible to moral values and conscious social control.
Links to sites on which I present my work (there will be a 10 second delay as you are redirected, to ensure safety):
Amazon Author Platform - Links to my publications
Writing Voice - social media page offering detailed descriptions of each book.
Being and Place - blog containing essays and links.
Irreducibly Polynomial - my writings on autism, combining an inner and outer expertise.