Presentation Slide Shows

These are Google Slides presentations that I use to teach a variety of materials assigned in my courses. Enjoy them!

Photo: Randy Dible (my dad) – Many of the photos in these presentations come from my father, who is a surf photographer. Check out his website at: Randy Dible Surf Photography

The Art of Thinking

Introduction to Art of Thinking

End-of-Term Recollection for The Art of Thinking

Flotation Tank Science

Phenomenology in the Float Tank

Philosophia Perennis

Philosophia Perennis: Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy, Intro and Ch. 1

The Headless Way: Douglas Harding

On Being God

On Having No Head

Clear and Present Thinking textbook Overview of Logic and Philosophy

Clear and Present Thinking: Chapter One, “An Outline History of Logic”

Laws of Form and Related Materials

Laws of Form and Only Two Can Play This Game

Spencer-Brown’s A Lion’s Teeth

Dible, “First Philosophy and the First Distinction”

Dible, “Universal Ontology and the First Distinction: Spencer-Brown, Husserl, and Conrad-Martius”

Dible, Universal Ontology and the First Distinction

Cybernetic Enlightenment

The Further Shores of Knowing

“The Inner Story of The Further Shoes of Knowing”

The Book of Knowledge

The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch

Husserl

Excerpts from First Philosophy

Excerpts from First Philosophy II

Excerpts from Ideas I

Presocratics

“Archaic Greek Nature Philosophy” and “The Old Physics” (Manchester)

Parmenides

Heraclitus

Plato

The Essential Republic

Plato’s Republic, Book VII, Cave and Sciences Propaedeutic to Dialectic

Plato’s Timaeus

Plato’s Phaedo

Plato’s Apology

The Myth of Er

Crossing From Er to Moral Reasoning

Aristotle

The First Mover as the First Philosopher

Aristotle on First Philosophy

Aristotle’s Prime Mover

Virtue Ethics and Aristotle

Metamorphoses of the Circle (Poulet) and The Book of the 24 Philosophers

George Poulet and the Infinite Sphere: Metamorphoses of the Circle and The Book of the 24 Philosophers

Nietzsche

Excerpt from On Truth and Lie

Mill and Addison

Addison and Mill (excerpts on liberty)

Spherics and the Infinite Sphere

On the Ancient Spherics: Manchester, Prisca Theologica, etc.

Love, Sphere, Fear

Imagine a Sphere

The Book of the XXIV Philosophers

On Feeling Good

Samuel McLaughlin: On Feeling Good

Flatland

Abbott’s Flatland

Toward Repurposing Mind

James Guy’s Toward Repurposing Mind

The Gospel of Astonishment, by James Plath

Check out Plath’s YouTube video interview series, The Institute for Advanced Astonishment. Also see James Plath’s website!

The Gospel of Astonishment, James Plath

Hedwig Conrad-Martius

Dible: Phenomenology and Universal Ontology (Ottawa, 2022)

Dible on Eternity, Time, and Reality

Hart. HCM’s Ontological Phenomenology

Mystical Experience: Franklin Merrell-Wolff’s Pathways Through to Space, and John Lilly and George Spencer-Brown

Pathways Through to Space

Mystics in Phenomenology and Elsewhere Entirely

A Few Good Mystics

Moral Reasoning

Singer – Rich and Poor

Descartes

Descartes’ Meditations

Discourse on Method

Rules for the Direction of the Mind

Buddhism

Buddhism Intro (Feuerstein plus Nagarjuna)

Nagarjuna

Tibetan Book of the Dead

Secret Doctrines of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Detlef Ingo Lauf)

Vedanta

Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad

Bhagavad Gita

Yoga Sutras (Patanjali, trans. Bryant)

“The Philosophy and Practice of Patanjala Yoga” (Feuerstein)

SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

SPEP 2022 (College Station, TX)

SPEP 2023 (Toronto, CA)

SPEP 2024 (Rochester, NY)

Paradoxes: from Asses, Arrows, and Undead Cats by Charlene Elsby

Asses, Arrows, and Undead Cats (Charlene Elsby)

More Paradoxes! (AAUC, Part II)

Hyperspace

Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku

Photo: Randy Dible (my dad) – Many of the photos in these presentations come from my father, who is a surf photographer. Check out his website at: Randy Dible Surf Photography