Ronny Desmet

Dr. Ronny Desmet is a Belgian postdoctoral researcher and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Whitehead Research Project. Prior to his retirement, he was a math teacher at Xaverius College in Antwerp, and was affiliated with the Centre of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Free University of Brussels. He became a master of mathematics in 1983 with a dissertation on the mathematics and philosophy of quantum mechanics; a master of philosophy in 2005 with a dissertation on the decline of the mechanistic worldview; and he obtained a PhD in 2010 for his study on Whitehead’s relativistic theory of gravitation. Among his publications are a 2010 collection of essays, co-edited by Michel Weber, Whitehead: The Algebra of Metaphysics (Les éditions Chromatika), and a 2016 collection of essays, Intuition in Mathematics and Physics: A Whiteheadian Approach (Process Century Press).