George Lucas

Dr. George Lucas is newly-appointed A.N. Whitehead Visiting Professor and Director of the CPS Archives at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. He is Professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, and recently retired after 10 years as General Editor of the Critical Edition of Whitehead. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at Northwestern University on Hegel and Whitehead in 1978, and subsequently wrote several books and articles on various kinds of process philosophy and their histories, culminating in The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 1990). He was thereafter the Editor of the SUNY series in Philosophy for 18 years. In 2023, his recent book, The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) was awarded the J.N. Findlay prize for the best title in the field of metaphysics, 2019-2023, by the Metaphysical Society of America.