This is the website of Randolph Dible.
I am a philosopher in both the academic sense and the wider sense. My aim is to re-align academic philosophy with its roots in ancient philosophy and metaphysics.
In the beginning of my consistent study of philosophy I learned how to distinguish metaphysical first principles from metaphysical foundations. That early stage of my study is marked by my friendship with the English mathematician George Spencer-Brown (1923-2016), who I first met in 2001. At that time I was a member of the American Society for Cybernetics, and my philosophical interests were centered on Eastern philosophy and process metaphysics.
I went to Stony Brook University for my undergraduate philosophy degree and my Masters in philosophy, where I studied with such philosophers as David Dilworth and Edward Casey, who taught me American and Continental philosophy with their own respective maverick styles of thinking. In 2010 I met Peter Manchester (1943-2015), whose example led me into phenomenology and ancient philosophy. From then on I was dedicated to phenomenology, and later I found in the phenomenological metaphysics of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and Hedwig Conrad-Martius the boldest advancements of metaphysics.
Today I focus on the phenomenological ontology of Hedwig Conrad-Martius, bringing her universal ontology up to date with the formal ontology of George Spencer-Brown and the cybernetic metaphysics it has inspired. My dissertation is called Universal Ontology of the Infinite Sphere, and that project upholds this synthesis and resumes the intention of operationalizing the economy of foundational dynamisms.
Here’s how I describe myself to my students:
I have been teaching in the Philosophy Department at Suffolk County Community College and St. Joseph’s University for a few years. My expertise lies in the areas of early phenomenology and Continental philosophy, and I have worked on such topics as the phenomenology of space and time, ancient philosophy, Neoplatonism, philosophical cosmology, comparative philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics, and the history of ideas. I have studied philosophy at The New School for Social Research, I have a Masters in Philosophy from Stony Brook University, and a certificate in Critical Theology from the Global Center for Advanced Studies.
I live on Long Island, and I am originally from California.
Here’s my academic biography:
Randolph Dible is a lecturer in philosophy at Suffolk County Community College and St. Joseph’s University, New York, and a philosophy doctoral student at The New School for Social Research. His dissertation is titled Universal Ontology of the Infinite Sphere. He has recently published the chapter “First Philosophy and the First Distinction: Ontology and Phenomenology of Laws of Form,” in Laws of Form—A Fiftieth Anniversary (2023), and “Modulation to a New Key in The Syntax of Time: Peter Byrne Manchester and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Common Telos of the All” in Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research (2023), with “Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Kritischer Realismus,” and “Ontopoiesis, Autopoiesis, and a Calculus Intended for Self-Reference” forthcoming. Other recent publications include “The Inner Story of the Further Shores of Knowing” in The Further Shores of Knowing (2021) and “Eternity, Time, and Reality in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology” in Natur und Kosmos: Entwürfe der frühen Phänomenologie (ed. Hans Rainer Sepp, 2020). Recent conference presentations include “Universal Ontology and the First Distinction: Spencer-Brown, Husserl, and Conrad-Martius” (Laws of Form 2022 Conference, University of Liverpool, August 2022), “Phenomenology as Seeing Through the World: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Vision, Method, and Doctrine of Universal Ontology” (NASEP 2022 Conference, Dominican University College, Ottawa, April 2022), and “Theodor Conrad and Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Versunkenheit: Psychological, Transcendental, and Ontological Phenomenology of Immersion” (NASEP 2023 Conference, University of San Diego, June 2023). He has published on mysticism in the Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research (2010), and his Masters thesis is titled Phenomenology of the Spheres: from the Ancient Spherics to Philosophical Cosmology (2018). Randolph Dible’s current research focuses on the historical hypothesis of an infinite sphere and its relevance to the interpretation of formation in the cosmologies of George Spencer-Brown and Hedwig Conrad-Martius. Associated with this thesis is a general theory of extension and dimensionality. He is currently the Director of the Webinar for the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE), the Communications Director for the North American Society for Early Phenomenology (NASEP), and Assistant to the Editor for the journal Phenomenological Investigations. He is also a founding executive member of the Spencer-Brown Society, co-organizer and host of the Laws of Form Conference series, and editor of Distinction: Journal of Form and the book series Marked States: Series on Form. Randolph is also the organizer, host, and co-curator of Thinking the Float Tank: AUM Fiftieth Anniversary Conference; Cybernetics, Float Tanks, and Phenomenology Since the 1973 Esalen Institute Conference, which will take place August 24-26, 2023, at the contemporary art museum West Den Haag in The Netherlands.
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https://randolphdible.com/scholarly-citations/
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