Dear Friends of Developmental Politics,

We’re excited to share the new video in which Steve McIntosh introduces his book: Truth Emerging: A Developmental Philosophy of Purpose and Progress. This live presentation to our monthly Zoom group includes audience Q&A at the end. This is the first of Steve’s two talks on the book. Intended for a general audience, this presentation provides an overview of the book’s central focus: the evolution of the noosphere. Next month, on October 14, Steve will give a more advanced talk on the book’s philosophy of value realism.

Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/c4zUSRJc73s

Jump to any section:

– 0:00 Why Vermeer’s “The Geographer” is on the cover

– 4:41 The evidence for purpose: fine-tuning, cosmic mind, and life that chooses

– 8:04 The one argument against progress — and why it fails

– 11:22 The God-shaped hole, and the meaning crisis as an opportunity

– 23:49 What beauty, truth and goodness are saying

– 30:07 Five ways culture has evolved, from the golden rule to the widening circle

– 37:05 Traditional, modern, postmodern — and why each one needs its predecessor

– 45:35 What comes after postmodernism

– 58:25 The takeaway — and why scripture has said this for 3,000 years

– 1:02:18 Q&A: are purpose and value built in, or do they emerge?

– 1:08:43 Q&A: “the universe has an agenda”

– 1:23:10 Q&A: if every culture values different things, what is objective?

– 1:26:23 Next month, October 14 — a preview of the physics of value

Truth Emerging is available for purchase on September 30th.

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https://www.developmentalphilosophy.org/join-steve-mcintoshs-monthly-zoom-group/