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Process Philosophical Reflections on the Whiteheadian Intellectual Heritage

A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947) is widely regarded as one of the most significant scientists, philosophers and thinkers of the 20th century. His philosophical work has had a profound impact on the development of philosophy in almost all of its areas. Actually, the sheer breadth and influence of his philosophical contributions is such that it is almost impossible to enumerate all the areas of philosophy that have been influenced by him. His concepts possess a historical evolution and are in a perpetual state of development, particularly within the context of contemporary Whiteheadian scholarship.

Whiteheadian philosophers do, of course, investigate and develop further Whitehead’s legacy, and it is thus advisable to probe these contemporary assessments of Whitehead. The present volume aims to do just that. In order to do so, the book is divided into four parts: (1) General concepts and basic skills in education; (2) The future of education; (3) Arts and ethics; (4) Community, medicine, psychology, AI.

About the Author

Vesselin Petrov

Dr. Vesselin Petrov holds an MA in mathematics (1977), a PhD in philosophy (1989) and a DSc in philosophy (2011). He is Professor and Head of the Department of “Models, Methodologies, and Heuristics” of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His fields of research interest include process philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, applied ontology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics. He is author of four books in Bulgarian and of more than 120 papers in Bulgarian, English, Russian and Chinese. He is also editor of twenty books in Bulgarian and English, among them Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2011), Dynamic Being: Essays in Process-Relational Ontology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and Mathematics in Philosophy (Les Éditions Chromatika, 2017). Professor Petrov was Executive Director (2015 – 2017) of the International Process Network. He is Editor-in-chief of the international periodical Balkan Journal of Philosophy.