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A Process-Relational Approach to Teaching Science with Christie Byers | Center for Process Studies
In this process pop-up, Christie Byers will explore what it might mean to teach science as if the world were alive. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, she shares an approach to elementary science education that shifts away from viewing nature as inert and mechanical, and toward experiencing it…
Living Whitehead's Vision: The Adventure of Adult Learning by Lynn Sargent De Jonghe
Bill Gayner and Greg Walkerden - Taking up Whitehead’s Invitation to Explore Our Immediate Experience - Process Explorations - Center for Process Studies
Eugene Gendlin's work—which Whitehead had a seminal impact on—help us move past the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. Heeding felt understanding gives us a disciplined resource for creative, adaptive thought and action. Bill Gayner will explore this experientially in a guided contemplation using as a starting point an excerpt from Whitehead’s…
Daniel Dombrowski - Education and the Homo Ludens Hypothesis - Process Explorations - Center for Process Studies
The philosopher George Allan—in three well-written books in philosophy of education—applies the Homo Ludens hypothesis to education, especially to higher education. College education at its best is a type of dynamic play. Allan’s contribution to the Homo Ludens hypothesis has been underappreciated. Allan often relies on the process thought found…
Process Studies journal volume 55, issue 1 | Center for Process Studies
The latest issue of Process Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1) brings together six original articles that push the boundaries of process thought across philosophy, science, and metaphysics. This issue features Randall Auxier on Susanne Langer’s theory of image and gestalt, Traill Dowie and Julien Tempone-Wiltshire on the intersections of process…
Bruce Alderman - Sacred Secularity - Process Explorations
The difference between the sacred and the secular may be more a matter of how than what—specifically, the quality of time and the depth of relation we bring to whatever is before us. Inspired by a recent dream about sacred secularity, Bruce Alderman explores what Raimon Panikkar's tempiternity, Martin Buber's…
Call for Papers | Two Issues of Folia Philosophica on Whitehead & Pedagogy
The conference Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy, held in Katowice, Poland on September 25, 2025, was met with an exceptionally positive response and exceeded initial expectations. A further significant outcome of the conference is the decision by the editors…
Why I Am Not A Whiteheadian - Jonathan Cobb - Center for Process Studies Blog
It's been just over a year since the passing of my grandfather, John B. Cobb, Jr. He was a philosophical theologian, applying metaphysics to the Christian faith, and his metaphysics came from the early 20th century theologian Alfred North Whitehead. However, my grandfather's work was a springboard into a much…
Special Issue of Revue Roumaine de Philosophie on Whitehead and Idealism
The Center for Process Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Revue Roumaine de Philosophie Tome 69, Nr. 2 (2025), a special open-access issue dedicated to “Whitehead and Idealism,” featuring research first presented at a 2024 conference of the same name organized by Constantin Rădulescu-Motru Institute of Philosophy and…